Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-25 Thread Alan Chandler
On 24/06/10 10:03, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-06-24 08:29 +0200, Alan Chandler wrote: Yesterday, a fix for a problem where you could not make ext2, ext3 or ext4 filesystems made it into testing. This has been around for a few weeks, and although there is a workaround using the updated

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-25 Thread Amar Cosic
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Alan Chandler a...@chandlerfamily.org.ukwrote: On 24/06/10 10:03, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-06-24 08:29 +0200, Alan Chandler wrote: Yesterday, a fix for a problem where you could not make ext2, ext3 or ext4 filesystems made it into testing. This has been

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-25 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 08:41 +0200, Amar Cosic wrote: On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Alan Chandler a...@chandlerfamily.org.uk wrote: Well it ended up broken last night.. Everything boots OK but gdm wont start properly and doing aptitude safe-upgrade/full-upgrade acctualy shows some

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-25 Thread Alan Chandler
On 25/06/10 07:41, Amar Cosic wrote: Well it ended up broken last night.. Everything boots OK but gdm wont start properly and doing aptitude safe-upgrade/full-upgrade acctualy shows some errors about udev. Funny thing is I did aptitude install linux-image-2.6-686 before everything, but this

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-25 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/24/2010 5:49 PM, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: Hi, Mark: I would retain the Lenny security update line in sources.list (for luck) until Squeeze is released as Stable, and start with safe-upgrade. That's of little to no value since security will do nothing for packages you already have a higher

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-25 Thread Tomasz Maluszycki
I had similar problem when upgrading from lenny to testing. First pull newer kernel image, 2.6.30, if I recall correctly (but don't pull 2.6.32-x yet, cause depends on new udev). Reboot. Then pull new udev, and reboot again. Now you can pull newest kernel. Hopefully if want to upgrade from

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Alan Chandler
On 23/06/10 23:26, Amar Cosic wrote: Hello list I was thinking about upgrade to squeeze and just want to check if everything is OK there? No 'critical' bugs etc.. ? I know a lot of you use squeeze so its probably best place to ask Yesterday, a fix for a problem where you could not make ext2,

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Huang, Tao
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 11:34 AM, John A. Sullivan III jsulli...@opensourcedevel.com wrote: Well . . . I suppose this is not hijacking as it is about stability and usability.  I eagerly ran my apt-get update and apt-get upgrade, rebooted and, voila, X refused to start.  I finally installed the

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-24 08:29 +0200, Alan Chandler wrote: Yesterday, a fix for a problem where you could not make ext2, ext3 or ext4 filesystems made it into testing. This has been around for a few weeks, and although there is a workaround using the updated version from SID, all the installation CDs

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Brent Clark
On 24/06/2010 00:26, Amar Cosic wrote: Hello list I was thinking about upgrade to squeeze and just want to check if everything is OK there? No 'critical' bugs etc.. ? I know a lot of you use squeeze so its probably best place to ask Hiya I think its very stable, and sure enjoying it. Give

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Amar Cosic
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Brent Clark brentgclarkl...@gmail.comwrote: On 24/06/2010 00:26, Amar Cosic wrote: Hello list I was thinking about upgrade to squeeze and just want to check if everything is OK there? No 'critical' bugs etc.. ? I know a lot of you use squeeze so its

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Brent Clark
On 24/06/2010 15:44, Amar Cosic wrote: Thank you all for info. Will upgrade tonight.. Just to be sure.. right way to do this is just to replace 'lenny' with 'squeeze' in sources.list apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade ? Or there is something else I have to pay attention on ? Thats what I

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Mark Allums
Thank you all for info. Will upgrade tonight.. Just to be sure.. right way to do this is just to replace 'lenny' with 'squeeze' in sources.list apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade ? Or there is something else I have to pay attention on ? I would retain the Lenny security update line in

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Brent Clark schreef: On 24/06/2010 15:44, Amar Cosic wrote: Thank you all for info. Will upgrade tonight.. Just to be sure.. right way to do this is just to replace 'lenny' with 'squeeze' in sources.list apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade ? Or there is something else I have to pay attention

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/24/2010 09:44 AM, Amar Cosic wrote: Thank you all for info. Will upgrade tonight.. Just to be sure.. right way to do this is just to replace 'lenny' with 'squeeze' in sources.list apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade ? Or there is

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Amar Cosic
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Jordan Metzmeier titan8...@gmail.comwrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/24/2010 09:44 AM, Amar Cosic wrote: Thank you all for info. Will upgrade tonight.. Just to be sure.. right way to do this is just to replace 'lenny' with

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/24/2010 02:17 PM, Amar Cosic wrote: And proper way to do this is apt-get install linux-image-2.6-686 ? tnx. Yes, and then reboot. However, I recommend using aptitude for all functionality that aptitude allows for. -BEGIN PGP

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/24/2010 2:21 PM, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: On 06/24/2010 02:17 PM, Amar Cosic wrote: And proper way to do this is apt-get install linux-image-2.6-686 ? Yes, and then reboot. However, I recommend using aptitude for all functionality that aptitude allows for. Does it matter what order

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-24 22:06 +0200, Mark Allums wrote: On 6/24/2010 2:21 PM, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: On 06/24/2010 02:17 PM, Amar Cosic wrote: And proper way to do this is apt-get install linux-image-2.6-686 ? Yes, and then reboot. However, I recommend using aptitude for all functionality that

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Mark: On Thursday 24 June 2010 16:06:17 Mark Allums wrote: Thank you all for info. Will upgrade tonight.. Just to be sure.. right way to do this is just to replace 'lenny' with 'squeeze' in sources.list apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade ? Or there is something else I have to pay

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-23 Thread Erwan David
Le Thu 24/06/2010, Amar Cosic disait Hello list I was thinking about upgrade to squeeze and just want to check if everything is OK there? No 'critical' bugs etc.. ? I know a lot of you use squeeze so its probably best place to ask genarally nothing critical, but sometime a glitch may

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-23 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Amar: On Thursday 24 June 2010 00:26:28 Amar Cosic wrote: Hello list I was thinking about upgrade to squeeze and just want to check if everything is OK there? No 'critical' bugs etc.. ? I know a lot of you use squeeze so its probably best place to ask The very people that works day

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-23 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 00:26 +0200, Amar Cosic wrote: Hello list I was thinking about upgrade to squeeze and just want to check if everything is OK there? No 'critical' bugs etc.. ? I know a lot of you use squeeze so its probably best place to ask On my newer hardware, Squeeze is preferable

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-23 Thread Hanspeter Spalinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Am 24.06.10 00:26, schrieb Amar Cosic: Hello list I was thinking about upgrade to squeeze and just want to check if everything is OK there? No 'critical' bugs etc.. ? I know a lot of you use squeeze so its probably best place to ask

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-23 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Thursday 24 June 2010 02:21:39 John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 00:26 +0200, Amar Cosic wrote: Hello list I was thinking about upgrade to squeeze and just want to check if everything is OK there? No 'critical' bugs etc.. ? I know a lot of you use squeeze so its

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-23 Thread Chris
To me squeeze is very stable. I have since moved to sid and surprisingly, it seems just as stable (to me that is) Sent from my BlackBerry® -Original Message- From: Hanspeter Spalinger deb...@spahan.ch Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:27:46 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: How

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-23 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 02:39 +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Thursday 24 June 2010 02:21:39 John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 00:26 +0200, Amar Cosic wrote: Hello list I was thinking about upgrade to squeeze and just want to check if everything is OK there? No

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-23 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 20:58 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 02:39 +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Thursday 24 June 2010 02:21:39 John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 00:26 +0200, Amar Cosic wrote: Hello list I was thinking about