Package: upgrade-reports Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system
My system would not boot after the woody->sarge upgrade. I followed the instructions in the Debian Release notes for sarge: - edit sources.list deb http://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian/ sarge main non-free contrib deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib non-free - apt-get update - aptitude install aptitude - aptitude install doc-base - aptitude -f --with-recommends dist-upgrade The only problem until now was that I had to remove festival for the upgrade to proceed (reported as a separate bug, #316948). The upgrade went on apparently succesfully, installing and configuring packages as needed. The release notes only ask to pay attention to the XFree upgrade notes before rebooting: /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/README.Debian-upgrade.gz I checked it. I did not upgrade kernel. I thought it was safe to reboot. But the system hang, with "LI" being the only text on screen. I used a woody bootable CD to check the system. The problem was solved after I run 'lilo'. However, I understand that is only necessary if lilo.conf is changed, or a new kernel is installed. Nothing of that happened. $ ls -l lilo.conf -rw-r----- 1 root root 4131 2004-02-02 20:04 lilo.conf Checking the typescript of the upgrade session, I noticed that lilo was updated: Preparing to replace lilo 1:22.2-3 (using .../lilo_1%3a22.6.1-6.2_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement lilo ... Preparing to replace lilo-doc 1:22.2-3 (using .../lilo-doc_1%3a22.6.1-6.2_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement lilo-doc ... [...] Setting up lilo (22.6.1-6.2) ... Setting up lilo-doc (22.6.1-6.2) ... Naively maybe, I would have expected lilo to have been re-run if necessary during the upgrade. Maybe a mention of lilo issues in the Release Notes would have been welcome. Regards, Victor -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.18-bf2.4 Locale: LANG=es.ISO-8859-1, LC_CTYPE=es.ISO-8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]