On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 07:39:52PM +0200, sigi wrote: > Hi Whit, > > last time I tried to dist-upgrade to squeeze, I got stuck in an > (for me) unresolvable loop: > The system wanted to upgrade the kernel-image and udev in one run - > which failed. apt-get always complained, that the kernel-image needs the > new udev-package to upgrade - and udev itself needed the new > kernel-image... > > I don't know, if this problem still exists - if yes: you should find a > way of not getting into this loop, where no "apt-get -f install" helped > to stop this. I reinstalled lenny after this... ;)
Yeah udev needs 2.6.27 or higher, so you have to upgrade the kernel first, then reboot, then do the whole upgrade. I have no idea what the plan for handling the upgrade is officially. Maybe the release notes are supposed to offer some hint. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101025184254.gr12...@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca