Yikes! Slink to Potato upgrade has nuked me.

2000-05-18 Thread John F. Davis
Hello I tried to upgrade from slink to potato via apt and have crashed my system. I added the deb for potato to my apt/sources.list and did a update/upgrade. I got errors about glibc version. Now, I can't boot. ...err go multiuser. I can't even log in. How do I get out of this hole? John

Re: Potato Upgrade.

2000-05-17 Thread Bolan Timothy Lewis Meek
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 14:43, Brenda replied: >On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 08:53:09AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 12:20:49AM -0400, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > > > Ok, sorry for being clueless, but after spending an hour > > > ... Oh, you weren't REALLY clueless, you just di

Re: Potato Upgrade.

2000-05-17 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 08:53:09AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 12:20:49AM -0400, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > > Ok, sorry for being clueless, but after spending an hour > > or more looking at the debian site (I have a *really* slow modem) > > I found a bunch of kernel packages

Re: Potato Upgrade.

2000-05-17 Thread Ben Collins
> You are looking in the wrong place :) > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-sparc/base/kernel-image-2.2.15-sun4cdm_2.2.15-0.19.4.deb Sorry, make that filename: kernel-image-2.2.15-sun4cdm_2.2.15-4.deb -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=

Re: Potato Upgrade.

2000-05-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 12:20:49AM -0400, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 12:04:09AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > > 2. is the 2.2.7 kernel stable enough for production use. > > > > If you are running a 2.0.x kernel on a sparc, you don't really know the > > meaning of stable unti

Re: Potato Upgrade.

2000-05-17 Thread Jean-Paul Blaquiere
> On May 17, Brenda J. Butler scratched in indelible ink : > Ok, sorry for being clueless, but after spending an hour > or more looking at the debian site (I have a *really* slow modem) > I found a bunch of kernel packages whose names are: > /debian/dists/potato/main/binary-sparc/base/ is the ar

Re: Potato Upgrade.

2000-05-16 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 12:04:09AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > 2. is the 2.2.7 kernel stable enough for production use. > > If you are running a 2.0.x kernel on a sparc, you don't really know the > meaning of stable until you upgrade to a 2.2.x (2.2.15 recommended) > kernel. Believe me, the spee

Re: Potato Upgrade.

2000-05-14 Thread Ben Collins
> 1. is that libc6 error a requirement or a recomendation. Required. I'm not in the habit of forcing failed package installs for trivial things :) If you don't head that warning, your box will be broken. > 2. is the 2.2.7 kernel stable enough for production use. If you are running a 2.0.x kernel

Re: Potato Upgrade.

2000-05-14 Thread Aaron Daniels
Ahh, sorry. I wasnt aware how a kernel version number worked. Thanks, Aaron Anand Kumria wrote: > > On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 10:14:11AM +1000, Aaron Daniels wrote: > > Hi, > > I recently upgraded my slink sparc5 box to potato. > > During the upgrade it told me that to upgrade libc6 I needed to in

Re: Potato Upgrade.

2000-05-14 Thread Anand Kumria
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 10:14:11AM +1000, Aaron Daniels wrote: > Hi, > I recently upgraded my slink sparc5 box to potato. > During the upgrade it told me that to upgrade libc6 I needed to install 2.2.7 > or > higher kernel. > I did so, but this is a production box and I dont really feel safe runni

Potato Upgrade.

2000-05-14 Thread Aaron Daniels
Hi, I recently upgraded my slink sparc5 box to potato. During the upgrade it told me that to upgrade libc6 I needed to install 2.2.7 or higher kernel. I did so, but this is a production box and I dont really feel safe running a kernel that unstable. So my Questions are. 1. is that libc6 error a req

ld broken after latest potato upgrade

1999-08-15 Thread scott . ashcroft
I've just updated my Sparc 2 to the latest potato packages and now ld always SEGVs. Any ideas what broke? Kernel version is 2.2.10. I can supply other hardware/config details if required. Scott frink:/etc# strace ld execve("/usr/bin/ld", ["ld"], [/* 19 vars */]) = 0 brk(0)