Jimmy Johnson wrote: > ... then changed my sources to Squeeze, so I did aptitude update and > aptitude full-upgrade and basically I just let aptitude do it's > thing,
Note that the recommend package management tool for the upgrade is apt-get. http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#upgradingpackages "The recommended way to upgrade from previous Debian GNU/Linux releases is to use the package management tool apt-get. In previous releases, aptitude was recommended for this purpose, but recent versions of apt-get provide equivalent functionality and also have shown to more consistently give the desired upgrade results." Also the recommendation is to do an 'apt-get upgrade' before doing an 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#minimal-upgrade "In some cases, doing the full upgrade (as described below) directly might remove large numbers of packages that you will want to keep. We therefore recommend a two-part upgrade process, first a minimal upgrade to overcome these conflicts, then a full upgrade ... This has the effect of upgrading those packages which can be upgraded without requiring any other packages to be removed or installed." That will enable upgrades of packages that can be upgraded without doing any package removals. It avoids the problem space for dependency management since the package list can't change. Then after the majority of packages have been installed the 'dist-upgrade' can add and remove packages to create a new package list solution. Make sure you upgrade the kernel before doing the udev upgrade. Otherwise you may have an unbootable system and need to recover manually using rescue media. http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#upgrading-udev > one problem was aptitude wanted to restart a list of services and > one of them was kdm, so do yourself a favor and remove kdm from the > list to restart or you will have a mess with x going while > underneath x where you can't see aptitude will still be doing it's > thing and you will not be able to get back to see what aptitude is > doing, You can switch back to the console with Alt-F1. http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#console-change "If you are running the upgrade using the system's local console you might find that at some points during the upgrade the console is shifted over to a different view and you lose visibility of the upgrade process. For example, this will happen in desktop systems when gdm is restarted. To recover the console where the upgrade was running you will have to use Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch back to the virtual terminal 1 if in the graphical startup screen or use Alt+F1 if in the local text-mode console. Replace F1 with the function key with the same number of the virtual terminal the upgrade was running in. You can also use Alt+Left Arrow or Alt+Left Arrow to switch between the different text-mode terminals." > After the full-upgrade there where somethings I wanted to check so I > did aptitude search linux-image to make sure I had the squeeze > kernel installed and it was but grub was not configured to use the > new kernel so I ran grub-update, if you have grub installed to the > MBR that's about all you need to know and good luck if you decide to > do the upgrade. I don't see information about the grub2 switch in the release notes. That would be something that should be in there. Good catch. Bob
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