On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:15:35PM +0200, Ax. St. wrote: > Thanks for replying so quickly. Unfortunately things are more complicated: > > - I have not only read the release notes but taken five machines through the > upgrade > process. This is the only machine that poses problems. The other machines > just had a few > foreign packages installed, so that I could remove them before the upgrade > and then > re-install them from Lenny. (That's why I think many things exist in Lenny > which I used > to miss in Etch.)
Ok. > - A month ago, I posted a bug on the "release-notes" package because the > relevant section > does not mention how to identify foreign packages, but haven't received > any reaction. Don't hesitate to send additionnal questions/details on the bug addresss. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=520605 > - "apt-show-versions" only shows one of three things: (Note that apt-cache policy will show you results in a less compact but more reliable view) > - "stable" > - nothing if a package is installed but not available in any archive --- > Should I remove > all of those? How can I tell where exactly they came from? I think you can't know where it came from. > - liba52-0.7.4 0.7.4-woody1 newer than version in archive --- very strange > as Woody is > clearly _older_ than Etch, let alone Lenny. There are about five more > packages like > this, but for them I neither Woody, Etch or Lenny are mentioned. Maybe some apt-show-version bug. => I don't know dpkg/aptitude enough to tell you more about that. However, the answer should be sent to #520605 and the release-notes. > - I recompiled my kernel: > $ uname -a > Linux flora 2.6.29.1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Apr 4 23:11:31 CEST 2009 i686 > GNU/Linux Well, manually compiled kernels are not that easy to support .. If you *really need* more recent kernels, you may use the snapshots from the kernel team: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel > - Bluetooth works technically ("hcitool" recognises my mobile phone, at least > most of the > time) but no connection can be made and no higher-level programs like > Wammu work whereas > on the other machines everything is fine. I don't know anything about Bluetooth. > - Another affected package is VLC which can only play audio. > > As you can see I am rather desperate, that's why I posted to a list. I CC debian-user, they will certainly more efficient than me to help you on that. -- Simon Paillard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org