Re: WARNING: Stay off Sid /lib upgrades!

2011-06-20 Thread Brad Alexander
Something I have taken to doing lately is to, at least on occasion, use the aptitude TUI. Once you get your head around the interface and its use, it is a very powerful way to upgrade your system, including very fine-grained control of the cleaning up the cruft on your system. --b On Mon, Jun 20,

Re: WARNING: Stay off Sid /lib upgrades!

2011-06-20 Thread Heddle Weaver
On 20 June 2011 17:57, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-06-20 09:38 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Mi, 15 iun 11, 17:55:56, David Baron wrote: > > > > [snip sid problems] > > > > I don't have these issues and I think messing with packages under the > > package managers control just asks for t

Re: WARNING: Stay off Sid /lib upgrades!

2011-06-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-06-20 09:38 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 15 iun 11, 17:55:56, David Baron wrote: > > [snip sid problems] > > I don't have these issues and I think messing with packages under the > package managers control just asks for trouble. Did you consider > re-installing? David's misadve

Re: WARNING: Stay off Sid /lib upgrades!

2011-06-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 15 iun 11, 17:55:56, David Baron wrote: [snip sid problems] I don't have these issues and I think messing with packages under the package managers control just asks for trouble. Did you consider re-installing? Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: h

Re: WARNING: Stay off Sid /lib upgrades!, more

2011-06-16 Thread Heddle Weaver
On 17 June 2011 03:37, David Baron wrote: > ** > > On Wednesday 13 Sivan 5771 17:55:56 you wrote: > > > Since this is now a mixed-up system (until Sid's maintainers get stuff > > > together, completely, responsibly (posting defective /lib upgrades is > > > inexcusable because of the mess made for

Re: WARNING: Stay off Sid /lib upgrades!, more

2011-06-16 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 13 Sivan 5771 17:55:56 you wrote: > Since this is now a mixed-up system (until Sid's maintainers get stuff > together, completely, responsibly (posting defective /lib upgrades is > inexcusable because of the mess made for us Debian Sid users!), there may > still be problems, i.e. anoth

Re: WARNING: Stay off Sid /lib upgrades!

2011-06-15 Thread Heddle Weaver
On 16 June 2011 01:59, Wayne Topa wrote: > On 06/15/2011 10:55 AM, David Baron wrote: > >> After being assured by a maintainer that the problems in upgrading were >> fixed >> in -7, I upgraded, without a hitch ... except now everything segfaults, >> even >> after reboot. I had also upgraded x-win

Re: WARNING: Stay off Sid /lib upgrades!

2011-06-15 Thread Wayne Topa
On 06/15/2011 10:55 AM, David Baron wrote: After being assured by a maintainer that the problems in upgrading were fixed in -7, I upgraded, without a hitch ... except now everything segfaults, even after reboot. I had also upgraded x-windows stuff dependent on that which made things even worse.

WARNING: Stay off Sid /lib upgrades!

2011-06-15 Thread David Baron
After being assured by a maintainer that the problems in upgrading were fixed in -7, I upgraded, without a hitch ... except now everything segfaults, even after reboot. I had also upgraded x-windows stuff dependent on that which made things even worse. Actually, the reboot proceeds perfectly. O