Confident from my first slink -> potato dist-upgrade, I attempted slink -> woody and pretty much hosed my installation. I've saved files and am doing a CD install of potato.
The nature of the failure was surrounding woody's xbase-clients, which wouldn't upgrade due to a conflict w/ xserver-common and introduced a growing set of unconfigurable packages as I pushed forth in a sort of brute-force manner. As I'm still learning the dist-upgrade process, and in particular the problem resolution one does there, I see this as a learning opportunity (after a pint of cider last night and sleeping on it 8). What I'd like to know is if I did something wrong in skipping a release with my dist-upgrade (slink -> woody) or if the thing that bit me would have bit anyone dist-upgrading to woody at the time I did. Does that make sense? If anyone has similar experiences to share, that would be welcome. I remain in awe and appreciation of dist-upgrade, but after one going well and one going sour I'm still a little afraid of it! thx, c
