A warning how not to upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze

2010-08-26 Thread Paul Richards
Hi, I recently upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze. I did the upgrade rather haphazardly without much preplanning and the procedure turned out to be a bit of a nightmare. I acknowledge that Squeeze is not fully released (just frozen), so I understand that there may not be any official upgrade guide

RE: A warning how not to upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze

2010-08-26 Thread James Zuelow
Original Message I then tried apt-get -f install, several times, which seemed to clear up a lot of things. Eventually my repeated apt-get -f install commands were just giving me the same udev error message. Apparently udev and the kernel need to be updated at the same time, but none

Re: A warning how not to upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze

2010-08-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In aanlktinnylyberhshkjmq2bebq5szgud5huadwe5o...@mail.gmail.com, Paul Richards wrote: Hi, I recently upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze. I did the upgrade rather haphazardly without much preplanning and the procedure turned out to be a bit of a nightmare. You should always read the release notes

Re: A warning how not to upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze

2010-08-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 201008261613.03510@iguanasuicide.net, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Thanks for the report. Mine is shorter: I used the heavily mixed system described above and tried (on a whim) the upgrade last night as well. I simply issued (aptitude safe-upgrade -t testing), and it failed to produce

Re: A warning how not to upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze

2010-08-26 Thread Anticept .
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Paul Richards paul.richa...@gmail.com wrote: Everything else like the new boot scripts, upgrade to grub2, new kernel, etc are working great. -- Paul Richards @pauldoo Don't forget the aptitude purge ~c to clean out all those leftover, and possibly