Re: Re: Re: apt-get dist-upgrade keeping back some packets

2022-09-23 Thread Gionatan Danti
-upgrade command line. Ok, I went to the bottom: it was due to phased updates not selecting my machine for applying the update. Disabling it via -o APT::Get::Always-Include-Phased-Updates=1 force apt-get dist-upgrade to update anything. I hope this can be useful for others. Thanks. -- Danti

Re: Re: apt-get dist-upgrade keeping back some packets

2022-09-22 Thread Gionatan Danti
pt-mark. Nothing. Using libsystemd0 as an example, apt-cache policy shown the installed packages with score 100, and an available update with score 500. Still, the update was not installed until I manually specified the package on the apt-get dist-upgrade command line. Full disclosure: this s

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade keeping back some packets

2022-09-22 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 23/09/2022 00:33, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 01:04:26AM +0200, Gionatan Danti wrote: root@localhost:/var/log/apt# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade keeping back some packets

2022-09-22 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 01:04:26AM +0200, Gionatan Danti wrote: > root@localhost:/var/log/apt# apt-get dist-upgrade > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > Reading state information... Done > Calculating upgrade... Done > The following packages h

apt-get dist-upgrade keeping back some packets

2022-09-22 Thread Gionatan Danti
Hi all, I have a question about apt-get dist-upgrade refusing to update some packages: root@localhost:/var/log/apt# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages have been

Re: Locally modified config file prompts in apt-get dist-upgrade despite APT configuration in place

2022-02-07 Thread Jaikumar Sharma
On Mon, 2022-02-07 at 12:45 +0530, Jaikumar Sharma wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to upgrade my Debian 10 box (10.11) with latest security > fixes on using command line as per below: > > $ sudo apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o > Dpkg::Options::="--force-confold" dist-upgrade -y --allo

Locally modified config file prompts in apt-get dist-upgrade despite APT configuration in place

2022-02-06 Thread Jaikumar Sharma
Hi, I'm trying to upgrade my Debian 10 box (10.11) with latest security fixes on using command line as per below: $ sudo apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confold" dist-upgrade -y --allow- unauthenticated above command line with APT configuration is suppose

Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle?

2018-07-03 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On 02/07/18 12:55 AM, Curt wrote: On 2018-07-01, Charlie Gibbs wrote: E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/. apt-get autoclean doesn't help; neither does apt-get clean. When I tried apt-get autoremove, the upgrade started, but at 99% completion it threw the message

Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle?

2018-07-02 Thread David Wright
On Mon 02 Jul 2018 at 10:12:13 (+0100), Joe wrote: > On Sun, 1 Jul 2018 17:43:02 -0500 > David Wright wrote: > > Why? If you find the cause, you can fix it. Upgrades are careful > > about preserving the system's integrity to run. > > Less and less with each version. > > I have a wheezy: I clone

Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle?

2018-07-02 Thread songbird
Charlie Gibbs wrote: ... > Sure enough, / is full, with all the fun that that entails. ... there are a lot of potential places to get space back: - check /var/log - also, see if you have old kernels that can be removed. - your browser cache may be huge. - downloaded files directory

Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle?

2018-07-02 Thread Joe
On Mon, 2 Jul 2018 09:55:48 + (UTC) Curt wrote: > On 2018-07-02, Joe wrote: > > On Sun, 1 Jul 2018 17:43:02 -0500 > > David Wright wrote: > > > > > >> > >> Why? If you find the cause, you can fix it. Upgrades are careful > >> about preserving the system's integrity to run. > >> > > >

Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle?

2018-07-02 Thread Curt
On 2018-07-02, Joe wrote: > On Sun, 1 Jul 2018 17:43:02 -0500 > David Wright wrote: > > >> >> Why? If you find the cause, you can fix it. Upgrades are careful >> about preserving the system's integrity to run. >> > > Less and less with each version. > > I have a wheezy: I cloned it to a spare

Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle?

2018-07-02 Thread Joe
On Sun, 1 Jul 2018 17:43:02 -0500 David Wright wrote: > > Why? If you find the cause, you can fix it. Upgrades are careful > about preserving the system's integrity to run. > Less and less with each version. I have a wheezy: I cloned it to a spare desktop machine, upgraded with some signifi

Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle?

2018-07-02 Thread Curt
On 2018-07-01, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > > E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/. > > apt-get autoclean doesn't help; neither does apt-get clean. When I > tried apt-get autoremove, the upgrade started, but at 99% completion it > threw the message: > > Error writing to out

Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle?

2018-07-01 Thread David Christensen
which compiles these programs successfully.  However, "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" shows the message: E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/. apt-get autoclean doesn't help; neither does apt-get clean.  When I tried apt-get autoremove, the upgrade star

Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle?

2018-07-01 Thread David Wright
enSSL clients on my Jessie laptop (see my recent posting titled > >> "Can't link to OpenSSL on my laptop). I've decided to upgrade it > >> to Stretch like my desktop machine, which compiles these programs > >> successfully. However, "sudo apt-get dist-

Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle?

2018-07-01 Thread The Wanderer
to OpenSSL on my laptop). I've decided to upgrade it >> to Stretch like my desktop machine, which compiles these programs >> successfully. However, "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" shows the >> message: >> >> E: You don't have enough free space in /v

Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle?

2018-07-01 Thread David Wright
Stretch like my desktop machine, which compiles these programs > successfully. However, "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" shows the > message: > > E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/. > > apt-get autoclean doesn't help; neither does apt-g

Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle?

2018-07-01 Thread Carl Fink
On 07/01/2018 05:44 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: Let's look at your options. 2. Buy a nice SSD and a USB-SATA cable. Install stretch on it, keeping to two partitions: / and /home. Copy over /home from your internal disk. When it's all done, swap the internal disk for the SSD. Pros: cle

Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle?

2018-07-01 Thread Felix Miata
Charlie Gibbs composed on 2018-07-01 13:17 (UTC-0700): > After this experience, I'm gun-shy about upgrading a system in place. I work mostly with limited space / filesystems, and I do dist-upgrades more often than fresh installs. There are places other than apt's cache that can gobble considerabl

Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle?

2018-07-01 Thread Dan Ritter
retch like my desktop machine, > which compiles these programs successfully. However, "sudo apt-get > dist-upgrade" shows the message: > > E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/. > > apt-get autoclean doesn't help; neither does apt-get

Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle?

2018-07-01 Thread Charlie Gibbs
However, "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" shows the message: E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/. apt-get autoclean doesn't help; neither does apt-get clean. When I tried apt-get autoremove, the upgrade started, but at 99% completion it threw the

Re: after doing apt-get dist-upgrade I lost wifi internet connection

2017-02-03 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 04:10:20PM -0300, Luciano Moffatt wrote: > I am in testing. > > I did a new installation and after a single apt-get dist-ugrade, wich > installed three new packages and updated about another forty,I lost my wifi > internet connection again. Cable internet worked fine. > >

after doing apt-get dist-upgrade I lost wifi internet connection

2017-02-02 Thread Luciano Moffatt
I am in testing. I did a new installation and after a single apt-get dist-ugrade, wich installed three new packages and updated about another forty,I lost my wifi internet connection again. Cable internet worked fine. I suspect it has something to do with firmware-linux-free so I did an apt-get

Re: Debian Testing. Can't boot after apt-get dist-upgrade (28 March 2016)

2016-03-29 Thread Javi Barroso
Hello, El 29 de marzo de 2016 9:16:09 CEST, Sergei Petrunin escribió: >Thanks for response! > >Unfortunately, I have to report that doing > >sudo install-grub /dev/sda#/dev/sda is by device for hard-drive >with >lvm, may be I need some specific options here? >sudo upgrade-grub > >do not cure

Re: Debian Testing. Can't boot after apt-get dist-upgrade (28 March 2016)

2016-03-29 Thread Sergei Petrunin
Thanks for response! Unfortunately, I have to report that doing sudo install-grub /dev/sda#/dev/sda is by device for hard-drive with lvm, may be I need some specific options here? sudo upgrade-grub do not cure boot for 4.4.0 kernel - same problem persists, still 4.3.0 kernel (in "Advanced GR

Re: Debian Testing. Can't boot after apt-get dist-upgrade (28 March 2016)

2016-03-28 Thread Matthew Moore
On 2016-03-28 11:46:46 PM, Sergei Petrunin wrote: During the system boot I get the following message: Begin: Running /scripts/local-block ... lvmetad is not active yet sysinit Volume group "strog-vg" not found Cannot process volume group strog-vg done. --- several times message like this --- -

Debian Testing. Can't boot after apt-get dist-upgrade (28 March 2016)

2016-03-28 Thread Sergei Petrunin
Hello, Just execute update commands: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get dist-upgrade After that I no longer be able to boot on 4.4.0 kernel (I using it for some time already), so I boot now from 4.3.0. During the system boot I get the following message: Begin: Running

Re: Suggested apt-get dist-upgrade.........

2015-10-29 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 10:23:00 + Darac Marjal sent: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 12:45:15PM +1100, Charlie wrote: > > >It was suggested that someone [lost the email] upgrade their system > >with apt-get dist-upgrade? > > > >I suppose depending on what packages a

Re: Suggested apt-get dist-upgrade.........

2015-10-29 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 12:45:15PM +1100, Charlie wrote: It was suggested that someone [lost the email] upgrade their system with apt-get dist-upgrade? I suppose depending on what packages are installed on a system would suggest which of these bugs could be problematical: Summary

Suggested apt-get dist-upgrade.........

2015-10-28 Thread Charlie
It was suggested that someone [lost the email] upgrade their system with apt-get dist-upgrade? I suppose depending on what packages are installed on a system would suggest which of these bugs could be problematical: Summary: libreoffice(2 bugs), akonadi-server(1 bug), libkf5auth5(1 bug

Re: "apt-get dist-upgrade" shows kept back packages

2015-08-28 Thread David Wright
Quoting Martin T (m4rtn...@gmail.com): > On 8/27/15, David Wright wrote: > > So what depends on python2.6 that won't be satisfied with 2.7? > > > > My wheezy shows libdb5.1:i386 5.1.29-5 and jessie has libdb5.3:i386 > > 5.3.28-9 > > (assuming they're related). Neither has python2.6. > How would

Re: "apt-get dist-upgrade" shows kept back packages

2015-08-28 Thread Martin T
ages. Usually this can be fixed with >> apt-get dist-upgrade because this will install new packages if needed. >> >> Now for some reason "db5.1-util" package is kept back despite the fact >> that I execute "apt-get dist-upgrade": > > I'm not s

Re: "apt-get dist-upgrade" shows kept back packages

2015-08-27 Thread David Wright
Quoting Martin T (m4rtn...@gmail.com): > Hi, > > as far as I know, kept back packages in Debian are shown in case > package can not be upgraded with "apt-get upgrade" because upgrade > requires to install new packages. Usually this can be fixed with > apt-get di

Re: "apt-get dist-upgrade" shows kept back packages

2015-08-27 Thread D. R. Evans
Martin T wrote on 08/27/2015 08:08 AM: > > Now for some reason "db5.1-util" package is kept back despite the fact > that I execute "apt-get dist-upgrade": > I did an upgrade yesterday, and saw the same thing. Experience suggests to me that it's a packagi

"apt-get dist-upgrade" shows kept back packages

2015-08-27 Thread Martin T
Hi, as far as I know, kept back packages in Debian are shown in case package can not be upgraded with "apt-get upgrade" because upgrade requires to install new packages. Usually this can be fixed with apt-get dist-upgrade because this will install new packages if needed. Now for s

Re: Problem to apt-get dist-upgrade

2015-08-20 Thread Joe
On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 09:12:19 +0200 (CEST) Magnus R wrote: > Dear all, > > I run Debian Unstable. I haven't been able to do a > > apt-get dist-upgrade > > for some time now since it wants to remove some essential packages > which after upgrading is not installable

Re: Problem to apt-get dist-upgrade

2015-08-20 Thread Magnus R
Is there anything I can do to fix this? Or do I just have to wait until the packages I need are back to normal (that is installable). There are several very big libary and compiler transitions going on at the moment. You can upgrade upgradable packages by using only "apt upgrade" instead of "di

Re: Problem to apt-get dist-upgrade

2015-08-20 Thread Sven Hartge
Magnus R wrote: > Is there anything I can do to fix this? Or do I just have to wait > until the packages I need are back to normal (that is installable). There are several very big libary and compiler transitions going on at the moment. You can upgrade upgradable packages by using only "apt upg

Problem to apt-get dist-upgrade

2015-08-20 Thread Magnus R
Dear all, I run Debian Unstable. I haven't been able to do a apt-get dist-upgrade for some time now since it wants to remove some essential packages which after upgrading is not installable anymore, for example konsole and okular. The output from apt-get dist-upgrade is: Calculating up

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade on shutdown ?

2014-01-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 1/24/14, Joel Rees wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> apt-get upgrade seems to have less "reboot requiring" updates. >> >> There ought be a way to schedule a dist-upgrade, to occur the next >> time I shutdown my computer - not on hibernate/suspend or even logo

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade on shutdown ?

2014-01-24 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > apt-get upgrade seems to have less "reboot requiring" updates. > > There ought be a way to schedule a dist-upgrade, to occur the next > time I shutdown my computer - not on hibernate/suspend or even logout > (I work on cmd line here and th

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade on shutdown ?

2014-01-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 23 ian 14, 13:52:39, Darac Marjal wrote: > > When you are happy with the script, create an initscript for it that > *starts* in runlevels 0 (halt) and 6 (shutdown). Pitch it to happen > sometime between X (and other user-facing services) stopping and the > network going down. Not sure if t

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade on shutdown ?

2014-01-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 23 January 2014 13:52:39 Darac Marjal wrote: > runlevels 0 (halt) and 6 (shutdown) runlevel 6 is surely reboot? Whereas shutdown needs further information: e.g. "shutdown -r" reboot, "shutdown -h" halt http://linux.101hacks.com/unix/shutdown/ Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade on shutdown ?

2014-01-23 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 03:08:29PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 23 January 2014 13:52:39 Darac Marjal wrote: > > runlevels 0 (halt) and 6 (shutdown) > > runlevel 6 is surely reboot? Whereas shutdown needs further > information: e.g. "shutdown -r" reboot, "shutdown -h" halt > http://li

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade on shutdown ?

2014-01-23 Thread Darac Marjal
nother reason to do so, if one is normally in a gui, and running sid, > is that sometimes gui packages break with an upgrade and a logout at > least is required. Sometimes a reboot is required. Write a script that runs "apt-get dist-upgrade" with appropriate options (things to c

apt-get dist-upgrade on shutdown ?

2014-01-23 Thread Zenaan Harkness
apt-get upgrade seems to have less "reboot requiring" updates. There ought be a way to schedule a dist-upgrade, to occur the next time I shutdown my computer - not on hibernate/suspend or even logout (I work on cmd line here and there). Doing a dist-upgrade right when I'm shutting the machine dow

Re: Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

2012-05-03 Thread Javier Parapar
BTW by installing phonon-backend-null the dist-upgrade can be performed, but no audio or video could be generated meanwhile a proper backend is not installed. -- Javier Parapar

Re: Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

2012-05-03 Thread Javier Parapar
Same situation here, I've tried with several updated mirrors ( http://mirror.debian.org/status.html) and no difference. According to this http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=669278 should we expect any update in the repositories soon? Regards, -- Javier Parapar

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

2012-04-18 Thread Indulekha
Amrish Purohit wrote: > I have repeated same with latest 6.0.4 kde live dvd, but getting the > saem result. > Hmmm. Did you run "apt-get update" after changing your sources.list? -- ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ Indulekha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

2012-04-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Not all Debian mirrors work right ... On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:27:54AM +0530, Amrish Purohit wrote: ... > >500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages > >N: Unable to locate package libvlccore4 Change mirror site from http://ftp.us.debian.org to and something else and tr

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

2012-04-17 Thread Amrish Purohit
b non-free deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-proposed-updates main contrib non-free # UNOFFICIAL REPOS ## [ snip: debian-multimedia, google, skype ] To convert debian stable in testing, I fired following commands. apt-get update apt-get di

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

2012-04-16 Thread Amrish Purohit
testing, I fired following commands. apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade For the record: If you want to set up a "testing" system starting from a "stable" installation CD then I would recommend to only install a minimal stable system (no graphical environment etc.), upgrade th

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

2012-04-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
ty.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free > deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-proposed-updates > main contrib non-free > > # UNOFFICIAL REPOS ## [ snip: debian-multimedia, google, skype ] > To convert debian st

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

2012-04-12 Thread Sharon Kimble
image ("debian- > testing-i386-kde-CD-1.iso")? > >> To convert debian stable in testing, I fired following commands. >> apt-get update >> apt-get dist-upgrade >> But dist-upgrade failed with following error. "E: Could not perform >> immediate configu

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

2012-04-12 Thread Camaleón
debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free (...) Mmm... just out of curiosity, if you wanted to use testing instead stable, why is that you didn't download a testing ISO image ("debian- testing-i386-kde-CD-1.iso")? > To convert debian stable in testing, I fired following c

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

2012-04-12 Thread Amrish Purohit
-armor 0xd66b746e | apt-key add - deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free To convert debian stable in testing, I fired following commands. apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade But dist-upgrade failed with following error. "E: Could not perform

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

2012-04-12 Thread Daniel Koch
gt; > Skype - http://www.skype.com > ## Run this command: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0xd66b746e > && gpg --export --armor 0xd66b746e | apt-key add - > deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free > > To convert debian stable in t

apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

2012-04-12 Thread Amrish Purohit
esting, I fired following commands. apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade But dist-upgrade failed with following error. "E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'phonon-backend-vlc'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2)" Please help to fix this issue. Regards Amrish

Re: Wheezy - aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get dist-upgrade

2012-02-29 Thread Whit Hansell
Tom, thank you for the info. I agree w. sending in bug reports. It's just that there is such a learning curve w.Gnome 3 and KDE4 which I had tried before I changed over to Gnome 2.30.x previously. I have gone ahead and done the full apt-get dist-upgrade and played w. the new Gnome and

Re: Wheezy - aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get dist-upgrade

2012-02-28 Thread Shaun
On 28/02/2012 01:25, Whit Hansell wrote: > > > Thanks for your reply. I had done some googling at the debian site and > found info on the differences as you state. I have to admit I am not > sure which is the best way to update/upgrade my system. I had read a > few years ago that "aptitude" wa

Re: Wheezy - aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get dist-upgrade

2012-02-27 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Whit Hansell wrote: > On 02/27/2012 04:26 AM, Monsieur Louk wrote: > >> I think you'll find every thing you need in the Debian doc: >> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_literal_apt_get_literal_literal_apt_cache_literal_vs_literal_apti

Re: Wheezy - aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get dist-upgrade

2012-02-27 Thread Whit Hansell
On 02/27/2012 04:26 AM, Monsieur Louk wrote: I think you'll find every thing you need in the Debian doc: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_literal_apt_get_literal_literal_apt_cache_literal_vs_literal_aptitude_literal Quote: The difference between "|safe-upgrade|

Re: Wheezy - aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get dist-upgrade

2012-02-27 Thread Shaun
On 27/02/2012 02:38, Whit Hansell wrote: > OK, Y'all. Confusin', confusin', confusin. > > > Quetjun'.... Is it safe to do an apt-get dist-upgrade? I mean it says > it will add over a Gig of new files and stuff while removing a number of > files.

Re: Wheezy - aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get dist-upgrade

2012-02-27 Thread Monsieur Louk
I think you'll find every thing you need in the Debian doc: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_literal_apt_get_literal_literal_apt_cache_literal_vs_literal_aptitude_literal Quote: The difference between "safe-upgrade"/"upgrade" and "full-upgrade"/" dist-upgrade" only

Wheezy - aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get dist-upgrade

2012-02-26 Thread Whit Hansell
to someone at the forum I was reading was to do an apt-get dist-upgrade and the person did so and she got her submenus back but lost her panels. I know that she went from Gnome 2.3.x to Gnome 3 w. the upgrade and that is what I need to do too but when I did an apt-get update to see what al

Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' from Lenny to Squeeze crashes

2011-09-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Alex wrote: > I think I have reached a dead-end and may have to restore from > partimage backup. Sigh. Oh well. On the bright side at least you have a full backup. :-) > I worked through Bob's recommendations:- :-) > * apt-get dist-upgrade >* E: Internal Erro

Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' from Lenny to Squeeze crashes

2011-09-19 Thread Alex
conf_files to read "dpkg --purge package1" etc. * chmod +x remove_conf_files * sh remove_conf_files * apt-get -f install * orphaner - all clear * apt-get dist-upgrade * E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on dash * dpkg -i --force-configu

Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' from Lenny to Squeeze crashes

2011-09-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Alex wrote: >* Since I am working from a partimage backup of the Debian system > partition (S.O.E. that can be transferred from one machine to > another in case of emergency), it is not a problem to restore that > and start again, if you think that would be the best course and >

Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' from Lenny to Squeeze crashes

2011-09-14 Thread Alex
Hi Bob, Thank you very much for the prompt and very comprehensive reply. There are some questions and comments arising, please:- * Since I am working from a partimage backup of the Debian system partition (S.O.E. that can be transferred from one machine to another in case of emerge

Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' from Lenny to Squeeze crashes

2011-09-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Alex wrote: > 'apt-get dist-upgrade' from Lenny (up to date as of 04 Spet. 2011) Too late now but before upgrading I think it is advisable to look at the output of apt-show-versions and clean up packages that are no longer available. Even though you were fully up to date with Len

'apt-get dist-upgrade' from Lenny to Squeeze crashes

2011-09-14 Thread Alex
Hi, 'apt-get dist-upgrade' from Lenny (up to date as of 04 Spet. 2011) to Squeeze crashes with the following error:- E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on libtext-iconv-perl Procedure used during upgrade to date:- 1) Downloaded and burne

Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-09 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 08 May 2011 13:02:18 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20110508_095510, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> > Whether one of these packages is installed by default depends on how >> > you installed that particular machine (example: it might not be >> > installed in expert mode since AFAIR you get a

Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 08 mai 11, 17:56:41, Camaleón wrote: > > Hum... then as Boyd also said (@Boyd, thanks for the explanation), can we > conclude that _only_ a kernel meta-package will be able to perform the > automatic upgrade to the latest version available? Well, "only" is a bit strong here, but given th

Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-08 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110508_095510, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 08 May 2011 11:21:07 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Sb, 07 mai 11, 16:18:53, Camaleón wrote: > > >> I'm running wheezy and it's since weeks that I started wondering when a > >> new kernel will come to testing :-) > >> > >> root@debian:~# cat /

Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-08 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 08 May 2011 20:33:22 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Du, 08 mai 11, 17:13:38, Camaleón wrote: >> >> Sure. I mean I already had the "linux-image-2.6.32-5-686" package >> installed but "apt-get dist-upgrade" did not offer the latest version >&

Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-08 Thread Dom
.6.32-5-686" package installed but "apt-get dist-upgrade" did not offer the latest version available ("linux-image-2.6.38-2-686") so I had to manually install it. I think this is mostly because the different kernel versions are completely different packages, rather than a new ver

Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <201105081231.04151@iguanasuicide.net>, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >In , Camaleón wrote: >>On Sun, 08 May 2011 11:21:07 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: >>> You need either the package linux-image- or >>> linux-image-2.6- and a new kernel will be installed as soon as >>> the Kernel Team updat

Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 08 mai 11, 17:13:38, Camaleón wrote: > > Sure. I mean I already had the "linux-image-2.6.32-5-686" package > installed but "apt-get dist-upgrade" did not offer the latest version > available ("linux-image-2.6.38-2-686") so I had to manually

Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Camaleón wrote: >On Sun, 08 May 2011 11:21:07 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Sb, 07 mai 11, 16:18:53, Camaleón wrote: >>> I'm running wheezy and it's since weeks that I started wondering when a >>> new kernel will come to testing :-) >>> >>> Now (by purely chance) I realized that there is

Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-08 Thread Camaleón
mean I already had the "linux-image-2.6.32-5-686" package installed but "apt-get dist-upgrade" did not offer the latest version available ("linux-image-2.6.38-2-686") so I had to manually install it. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 08 mai 11, 09:55:10, Camaleón wrote: > > > > You need either the package linux-image- or > > linux-image-2.6- and a new kernel will be installed as soon as > > the Kernel Team updates the dependencies of these packages. > > Do I need "either" or do I need "both"? :-) I did say "either", u

Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-08 Thread KS
On 07/05/11 09:36 PM, KS wrote: > > However, I did an update just around the time I saw the reply and apt is > not able to find the 2.6.38-2-686-bigmem (for for that matter 2.6.38-2) > either! It exists on packages.debian.org though. > Must have been an issue with the mirrors as apt was getting

Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-08 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 08 May 2011 11:21:07 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sb, 07 mai 11, 16:18:53, Camaleón wrote: >> I'm running wheezy and it's since weeks that I started wondering when a >> new kernel will come to testing :-) >> >> root@debian:~# cat /etc/issue >> Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid \n \l >> >

Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 07 mai 11, 16:18:53, Camaleón wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running wheezy and it's since weeks that I started wondering when a > new kernel will come to testing :-) > > root@debian:~# cat /etc/issue > Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid \n \l > > test@debian:~$ uname -r > 2.6.32-5-686 > > Now (by pu

Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-07 Thread KS
On 07/05/11 08:11 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > KS: >> >> Surprisingly, dpkg does not show 2.6.38 whereas apt says that it exists! > > Dpkg doesn't know packages that were never installed. Apt does. > > J. Ah, didn't realize that. However, I did an update just around the time I saw the reply and a

Re: Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
KS: > > Surprisingly, dpkg does not show 2.6.38 whereas apt says that it exists! Dpkg doesn't know packages that were never installed. Apt does. J. -- I wish I had been aware enough to enjoy my time as a toddler. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-07 Thread KS
> On 07/05/11 17:18, Camaleón wrote: > > Do you have the linux-image-686 package installed? (I see you're > using the 686 version) This package is a dummy package that depends > on the latest kernel, currently linux-image-2.6.38-2-686. If you do, > then apt-get dist-upgra

Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-07 Thread Camaleón
y triggered the >> new kernel? Or is that kernel needs to be manually pulled? :-? > > Do you have the linux-image-686 package installed? (I see you're using > the 686 version) This package is a dummy package that depends on the > latest kernel, currently linux-image-2.6.38-2-

Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-07 Thread Siard
Camaleón wrote: > # aptitude safe-upgrade > No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not > upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be > used. > > Nothing to do? :-? For a couple of days, a so-called 'h

Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-07 Thread Dom
I see you're using the 686 version) This package is a dummy package that depends on the latest kernel, currently linux-image-2.6.38-2-686. If you do, then apt-get dist-upgrade will install the new kernel when available (but it won't remove your old kernel). Regards -- Dom -- To

Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-07 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 07 May 2011 17:24:33 +0100, AG wrote: > On 07/05/11 17:18, Camaleón wrote: >> I use to upgrade the machine with this command: >> >> apt-get update&& apt-get -V dist-upgrade >> >> Should I have been using another one that automatically triggered the >> new kernel? Or is that kernel needs

Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-07 Thread godo
get update&& apt-get -V dist-upgrade Should I have been using another one that automatically triggered the new kernel? Or is that kernel needs to be manually pulled? :-? Greetings, Hi, whenever I power on my boxes firs I go in single user mod and apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgra

Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-07 Thread AG
On 07/05/11 17:18, Camaleón wrote: Hello, I'm running wheezy and it's since weeks that I started wondering when a new kernel will come to testing :-) I use to upgrade the machine with this command: apt-get update&& apt-get -V dist-upgrade Should I have been using another one that autom

Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-07 Thread Camaleón
Hello, I'm running wheezy and it's since weeks that I started wondering when a new kernel will come to testing :-) root@debian:~# cat /etc/issue Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid \n \l test@debian:~$ uname -r 2.6.32-5-686 Now (by purely chance) I realized that there is indeed a new kernel available

Re: [Xorg Mouse Acceleration is Broken in new Xorg 7.4?] Re: Mouse/keyboard no longer work after apt-get dist-upgrade in testing?

2009-09-20 Thread Simon Thum
Justin Piszcz wrote: > Solution for now as I need a working desktop: > > 1. Recover OS from backup before upgrade: > 2. Pin kde* and xorg* so they are not upgraded anymore. > > In the future/if someone from xorg can respond-- is there a fix/way to > make the semantics such that 'xset m 20/5 1' i

Re: [Xorg Mouse Acceleration is Broken in new Xorg 7.4?] Re: Mouse/keyboard no longer work after apt-get dist-upgrade in testing?

2009-09-20 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: Solution for now as I need

Re: [Xorg Mouse Acceleration is Broken in new Xorg 7.4?] Re: Mouse/keyboard no longer work after apt-get dist-upgrade in testing?

2009-09-19 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: Hello, I have two hosts (x86_64) & (x86) running and after apt-get

Re: [Xorg Mouse Acceleration is Broken in new Xorg 7.4?] Re: Mouse/keyboard no longer work after apt-get dist-upgrade in testing?

2009-09-19 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: Hello, I have two hosts (x86_64) & (x86) running and after apt-get dist-upgrade this morning, I can no longer us

[Xorg Mouse Acceleration is Broken in new Xorg 7.4?] Re: Mouse/keyboard no longer work after apt-get dist-upgrade in testing?

2009-09-19 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: Hello, I have two hosts (x86_64) & (x86) running and after apt-get dist-upgrade this morning, I can no longer use my keyboard/mouse on either after a reboo

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