On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 16:35 -0800, Bill MacAllister wrote: > Hello, > > On one of the debian systems I manage I installed sarge before it was moved > to stable by referening testing in my sources.list. I completely forgot > about this and recently issued an apt-get update; apt-get upgrade. The > system continues to work, but has trouble booting now. I would like to > revert to the stable tree at this point. What will happen if I just modify > the sources.list and issue an apt-get update; apt-get upgrade at this > point? Is apt-get smart enough to go back like list?
Logout of X if you are in it. Adjust /etc/apt/sources.list to use 'stable' or 'sarge'. Add this to /etc/apt/preferences: Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 1001 Run 'apt-get update' Run 'apt-get -u dist-upgrade' That last one will downgrade your machine to stable. Once it is done, you should reboot. You will probably have a number of packages left over from testing that don't exist in sarge, so use deborphan to find out which ones they are, and manually remove them (or run 'deborphan | xargs dpkg --purge'). I have done the above a couple of times, and if you are running gnome, you may also want to run: apt-get remove --purge libglib2.0-0 apt-get install gnome gdm The first command will pull out almost all gnome apps and libraries, and the second installs them again. IIRC nautilus in particular had problems with downgrading. -- James Strandboge [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
