On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 03:36:48PM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 04:17:00PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > > - I started the upgrade within X. Partway through the upgrade, dbus got > (...) > > specific packages to upgrade first from a console. Due to this issue, > > I did the rest of the upgrade from a console. > > This is the recommended mechanism for upgrades, see: > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#upgrade-preparations
Good to know, but a release note just notes an issue that needs working around; always better to fix the system so the release note no longer applies. :) > > - Restarting gdm (each time) switches to the gdm terminal, so I had to > > switch *back* to the console to finish the upgrade. > > Described already in the Release Notes, see: > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#console-change Good to know that the release notes document this bug, but it still seems better to fix it than document it. :) > > - udev renamed all network interfaces to new names after the upgrade, > > despite the MAC addresses and similar not changing. I had to manually > > edit persistent-net.rules to fix them back to eth0 and wlan0. > > This is not expected, device renumbering could happen (see > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#device-reorder). > Did you have the proper rules defined in > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules or did they change? After upgrading, 70-persistent-net.rules contained multiple rules for the same devices with the same MAC addresses. I saw that the MAC addresses matched, but I didn't compare the lines closely other than that. I probably should have recorded the exact contents before fixing it by deleting the original lines and renumbering the new ones. > > - I ended up grabbing 2.6.37 from unstable to get a better wireless > > driver. When I installed 2.6.37, it warned about missing firmware > > from firmware-iwlwifi, but the system already had the latest version > > of firmware-iwlwifi installed. > > Maybe this needs to be submitted as a separate bug report to the kernel > maintainers. Sure, done. I wanted to include the full narrative of the upgrade in a single report to note the issues that arose, but I can still help split out individual reports as appropriate. > Do you have a full log of the upgrade (as described in [1]) this could be > helpful to review it. [...] > [1] > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#record-session No, I don't have a script log of the upgrade. - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
