package: nvidia-graphics-drivers version: 195.36.24-4 severity: grave Hi,
After the call for upgrade testing, I just did a lenny-to-squeeze test on an old system of mine. The nvidia-*-legacy-96xx kernel module and glx were installed under lenny (to support an old nvidia card that none of the newer nvidia drivers support). I followed the upgrade instructions exactly at [0]. After installing the new kernel and udev and rebooting (section 4.5.5), X was nonworking (since it was using the new kernel and I hadn't built a new module). So I had to boot into single user mode to complete the rest of the install. During the dist-upgrade (section 4.5.6), a lot of xorg drivers and xorg itself ended up getting removed. After the dist-upgrade, I manually installed xorg, which removed nvidia-glx-legacy-96xx. After that X still wouldn't work since I still had the old nvidia-based xorg.conf. I removed /etc/X11/xorg.conf and installed xserver-xorg-nvidia, which fixed all of the problems. So, I think this could be fixed by either providing an upgrade path from the legacy drivers to nouveau or by simply telling the user to remove nvidia-*-legacy-* packages and /etc/X11/xorg.conf in the release notes. Setting the severity at grave since this caused all kinds of upgrade breakage (that a less technically apt user would have a lot of trouble with), but I will deffer to your judgment on the severity since its so late in the release process. Thanks, Mike [0] http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
