On Saturday 11 June 2005 17:20, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 04:46:22PM +0100, peter colton wrote:
> > On Saturday 11 June 2005 16:49, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > > After 18 hours of upgrading on my very slow 100 MHz Pentium,
> > > it ended up producing an unending stream of
> > >
> > > multilog: warning: unable to write to /var/log/svscan/current. pausing:
> > > out of disk space
> > >
> > > The installation log file (made using script on another partition)
> > > also contains complaints that other files did not exist -- presumably
> > > because they were not created because of lack of space.
> > >
> > > There seemed not much point in continuing, since many of the package
> > > upgrades were likely to have been damaged (unless aptitude is
> > > very good at dealing with this -- is it?), so I cancelled the upgrade,
> > > and am composing this mail on another woody in another partition
> > > (my spare -- a backup of the one that failed to upgrade properly.)
> > >
> > > When I started the upgrade, my main 4G partition (which contained
> > > everything except /home) was only half full. I thought I had lots of
> > > room.
> > >
> > > Just how much space is needed for an upgrade, anyway?
> > >
> > > Is it possible to bring this upgrade into a consistent state
> > > (possibly by deleting lots of packages, or resuming with aptitude
> > > after reorganising the disk space), or should I just trash it,
> > > make a bigger partition somewhere else, copy my backup partition to it
> > > and start over?
> > >
> > > -- hendrik
> >
> > hello hendrik,
> >
> > did you clear var out for apt.
> > apt-get clean apt-get autoclean
>
> No. I didn't.
>
> > hope it gibe you the room to upgrade.
>
> Will try again. But ... Is it possible to resume the broken upgrade?
> Or is that hopeless, and is it better to just start over?
>
> > all the best
> >
> > peter colton
>
> Thanke for the free verse! Pleasant layout oafter a lot of time looking
> at text on screens.
>
> -- hendrik
>
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hello hendrik
Have a look at the link for upgrading from woody to sarge. The
important
part is the use of aptitude with a dist-upgrade.
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/releasenotes
and again all the best.
peter colton
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