On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 07:00:31PM +0100, peter colton wrote: > 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 > > > > > -- > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 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.
I have been following the release notes, but it didn't mention clearing the apt-cache. Maybe it should. > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/releasenotes I got it from http://www/debian.org/releases/sarge/release-notes/ch-upgrad... to judge from the header at the top of my printout. > > and again all the best. > > peter colton > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
