Jamie,
Thanks very much for this. It when mostly as planned. There were two
problems that I hit.
1. There was a problem downgrading passwd---the error message
said there was a problem over writing /usr/sbin/add-shell.
The error report indicated that passwd as also in debianutils
that was also scheduled for installation. I went to the cache
directory can installed debianutils by hand with dpkg and
restarted restarted the process with the command apt-get -f
install.
2. Then some time later apt-get started getting the error:
dpkg: config error: unknown option log: Success
I found a note on the web that recommended removing the
/etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg file. I just commented out the log line
in the file and re-issued the apt-get -f install command.
When the install of the packages in the cache finished I went back and
re-issued the apt-get -u dist-upgrade. It finished cleanly this time. At
this ping my attempt at shutdowning the system just hung. I ended up
bringing up another console session, issuing multiple sync's and then
punching the reset button. The system came up cleanly.
The only question that I have at this point is should I remove the
preferences from /etc/apt? I don't really understand what I did here. Can
you point me to a document that describes what you suggested?
Thanks again,
Bill
--On Friday, January 20, 2006 10:29:33 PM -0500 James Strandboge
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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.
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