Re: A warning how not to upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze

2010-08-26 Thread Anticept .
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Paul Richards wrote: > > Everything else like the new boot scripts, upgrade to grub2, new > kernel, etc are working great. > > > -- > Paul Richards > @pauldoo > Don't forget the "aptitude purge ~c" to clean out all those leftover, and possibly conflicting, config

Re: A warning how not to upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze

2010-08-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <201008261613.03510@iguanasuicide.net>, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >Thanks for the report. Mine is shorter: > >I used the heavily mixed system described above and tried (on a whim) the >upgrade last night as well. I simply issued (aptitude safe-upgrade -t >testing), and it failed to pro

Re: A warning how not to upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze

2010-08-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Paul Richards wrote: >Hi, >I recently upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze. I did the upgrade rather >haphazardly without much preplanning and the procedure turned out to >be a bit of a nightmare. You should always read the release notes (available as a WIP now) for the new release and use the u

RE: A warning how not to upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze

2010-08-26 Thread James Zuelow
Original Message > > I then tried "apt-get -f install", several times, which seemed to > clear up a lot of things. Eventually my repeated "apt-get -f install" > commands were just giving me the same udev error message. Apparently > udev and the kernel need to be updated at the same time,