Hi, (CC to debian-user@lists.debian.org) On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 11:30:16PM +0100, Harald Schmid wrote: > On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 22:40:27 Osamu Aoki wrote: > >On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 10:21:04PM +0100, Harald Schmid wrote: > >> during an upgrade of testing I had kernel panic which completely > >> destroyed the partition (I can mount it and read some things, but > >> not fsck it) . I think the last messages before the panic on the > >> screen came from the pcmcia packages (I am using a laptop). Is > >> there a log of the apt upgrade (I did it with aptitude) on the > >> destroyed partition ? > > > >Wow, but is this true? Maybe all you had was an unbootable system. > >Did you use rescue disk to mount the hardisk? > > > >Read the current pcmcia-cs bug reports (#'s 133968 & 134211). > > > I am currently using a debian system on another partition. On the > "destroyed" partition even a manual fsck gets stuck in hundreds of > strange errors telling me that there have files to be deleted. I am > really not sure if the pcmcia packages caused the disaster. The kernel > panic message made the other messages disappear from the screen.
Good for you. I have pcmcia equipped machine as gateway. I will be super careful on this. > >> I am using kernel 2.4.5 and woody with regularly upgrades. > > > >Kind of old. 2.4.17 is latest kernel-image > > I'd really have liked to upgrade. But as discussed earlier in devel > building of pcmcia-modules used to fail with kernels 2.4.7 and newer. That was true at one point but with new binutils, I thought it was fixed. I am using pre-compiled kernel-image-2.4.17-386. (Joey Hess package) on my gateway PC with PCMCIA (2 NICs). > >> I copied the whole system to another partition a few days ago but > >> everything, including the first upgrades worked as usual. You must have had very hard crash. > >> P.S. Please cc me, because I am currently not subscribed to > >debian-devel > I personally do not have a problem with my system because I have the about > two weeks old woody system on a smaller partition. That is the way to do it. Same here. > But I am afraid that there might be a grave bug somewhere in testing, > perhaps destroying systems of laptop-users (I copied the whole system > again upgraded -- same result) so I wanted to help - ignoring my lack of > knowledge. > (I copied the whole system again upgraded -- same result) But do not you think this is very vague? I think you should upgrade all but kernel, pcmcia-cs first. Then reboot it to make sure to isolate problem. Then you upgrade pcmcia-cs. Also unless this is aptitude problem, doing it with simpler command such as apt-get dist-upgrade may help understand situation better. > P.S. Please someone give me a hint how to sort may mails correctly into > the thread Mutt automatically do this. (So does gnus and others, so I heard) I also use procmail to filter mailing list mails to separate folders. -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> @ Cupertino, CA USA +
