Re: (SOLVED) Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-12-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 12/01/11 02:55, Stephen Powell wrote: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 03:02:02 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: Google is your friend! I don't remember exactly what my search terms were, but the top item gave me the answer (once I read down through all the answers that were less than useful to me, or the

Re: (SOLVED) Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-12-01 Thread Stephen Powell
Thu, 01 Dec 2011 03:02:02 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: > > Google is your friend! I don't remember exactly what my search terms > were, but the top item gave me the answer (once I read down through all > the answers that were less than useful to me, or the OP of that thread). > > I have al

(SOLVED) Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-12-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/30/11 04:52, Stephen Powell wrote: On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:35:21 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: The problem was that the /etc/uswsusp.conf file (used by s2disk and s2both) still had the old swap file listed as the resume device. Correcting that and then updating the initrd seems to have

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-30 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:35:21 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: > > The problem was that the /etc/uswsusp.conf file (used by s2disk and > s2both) still had the old swap file listed as the resume device. > Correcting that and then updating the initrd seems to have solved the > problem. At least t

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/29/11 20:52, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 11/29/11 04:51, Stephen Powell wrote: On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:21:58 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: Well, I just rebooted again, and things are better, but still not quite right. This problem has NOT gone away. I can use 'noresume' but I should not ha

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/29/11 04:51, Stephen Powell wrote: On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:21:58 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: Well, I just rebooted again, and things are better, but still not quite right. This problem has NOT gone away. I can use 'noresume' but I should not have to and it seems that it would be bes

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:21:58 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: > > Well, I just rebooted again, and things are better, but still not quite > right. > > This problem has NOT gone away. I can use 'noresume' but I should not > have to and it seems that it would be best not to, so that all power >

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-28 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/28/11 21:50, Marc Shapiro wrote: My box is ALMOST working correctly, but not quite... Well, I just rebooted again, and things are better, but still not quite right. On 11/28/11 04:12, Stephen Powell wrote: On my system, there are two files in this directory, "resume" and "driver-pol

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-28 Thread Marc Shapiro
My box is ALMOST working correctly, but not quite... On 11/28/11 04:12, Stephen Powell wrote: On my system, there are two files in this directory, "resume" and "driver-policy". The "resume" file contains: RESUME=UUID=a6948969-2d88-4ec0-93a1-6d2d803ff8b3 which specifies the UUID of the SUS

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-28 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:21:53 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 11/27/11 15:10, Stephen Powell wrote: >> Since your permanent root file system is not a logical volume, chances are >> there is no LVM stuff in your initial RAM file system. Therefore, it is >> trying to access the SUSPEND/RESUME d

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
Oops! I sent my reply directly to Stephen, again. On 11/27/11 15:10, Stephen Powell wrote: Since your permanent root file system is not a logical volume, chances are there is no LVM stuff in your initial RAM file system. Therefore, it is trying to access the SUSPEND/RESUME device before it is a

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 16:38:20 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: > > I reran lilo and rebooted, but the problems remained. I found that by > changing the last column in /etc/fstab from '2' to '0' on the removable > flash drives eliminated those errors. I hadn't noticed that, but yes, the "pass" o

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/27/11 13:30, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:36:27 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: Let me know how that works out for you. I didn't see any obvious problems in your /etc/apt/sources.list. Well, that didn't work, but I purged all of the packages with

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/27/11 12:36, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 11/27/11 11:11, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:22:37 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: Here are my /etc/apt/sources.list, /etc/fstab, /etc/lilo.conf listings. The specifications for the root file system in /etc/lilo.conf and in /etc/fsta

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:36:27 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> Let me know how that works out for you. I didn't see any obvious >> problems in your /etc/apt/sources.list. > > Well, that didn't work, but I purged all of the packages with conffiles > (manually, as I did i

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/27/11 11:11, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:22:37 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: Here are my /etc/apt/sources.list, /etc/fstab, /etc/lilo.conf listings. The specifications for the root file system in /etc/lilo.conf and in /etc/fstab do not match. In /etc/lilo.conf, you

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:20:59 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: > > I'm not certain, but I THINK that these lines are all referring to > packages that were removed by the update, but whose config files were > not purged. There are 47 such files according to 'dpkg -l | grep ^rc' > and I recall ap

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:22:37 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: > > Here are my /etc/apt/sources.list, /etc/fstab, /etc/lilo.conf listings. In a typical Debian boot, there are three separate mountings of a root file system. The first stage is the initial RAM file system, which is mounted as the r

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 26 nov 11, 18:20:59, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > I'm not certain, but I THINK that these lines are all referring to > packages that were removed by the update, but whose config files > were not purged. There are 47 such files according to 'dpkg -l | > grep ^rc' and I recall apt-get saying that

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-26 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/26/11 14:15, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 11:29:58 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: Finally, I did 'apt-get dist-upgrade', which kept me up way too late. I got lots of warnings about lines in /var/lib/dpkg/status having an invalid character in it. These all seem to have been

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Marc Shapiro wrote: > I am not sure of the timing, but I think it was right after > upgrading the kernel that my reboot started having issues. After it > mounts the root partition, which it does without problems, it > complains that it can not stat the swap partition, which is on LVM. > If I just

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-26 Thread Marc Shapiro
Here are my /etc/apt/sources.list, /etc/fstab, /etc/lilo.conf listings. The lilo.conf file is modified slightly after looking at your web page, but I have not rerun lilo, yet. Is this the correct format for the append statement to pass the rootdelay command? I just noticed, as I copied in th

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-26 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 11:29:58 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: > > I did do that. After changing sources.list to point to Squeeze, I ran > 'apt-get update; apt-eet upgrade' then I updated the kernel to an actual > Squeeze kernel and updated udev and rebooted. After that I ran 'apt-get > upgrad

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-26 Thread Marc Shapiro
Oops! I accidentally sent this reply directly to Stephen. Sorry Stephen. On 11/26/11 04:58, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 22:42:06 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: >> >> I have already read the release notes. >> ... >> My question was, considering what I have done, is it likely th

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-26 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 22:42:06 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: > > I have already read the release notes. > ... > My question was, considering what I have done, is it likely that things > will 'just work' or is it more likely that I will have issues? I would not anticipate any major problems, giv

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Marc Shapiro wrote: > My question was, considering what I have done, is it likely that > things will 'just work' or is it more likely that I will have > issues? Yes. Should work just fine. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/25/11 03:16, Stephen Powell wrote: On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 01:58:13 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: I have yet to upgrade to Squeeze and I really think that it is about time. ... Is there any reason that I should not just do 'apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade' and expect things to 'just w

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 01:58:13 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: > > I have yet to upgrade to Squeeze and I really think that it is about > time. > ... > Is there any reason that I should not just do > 'apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade' and expect things to 'just work' > as they have in the pas

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze - Howto?

2010-07-21 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 21 July 2010 02:13:20 Paul Chany wrote: > Jordon Bedwell writes: > > On Jul 21, 2010, at 5:00 AM, Paul Chany wrote: > >> Could you please drop me the dd command for this task? > > > > Here is a little article that explains it (while it might seem out > > of date it still works ~ gotta

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze - Howto?

2010-07-21 Thread Mark Allums
On 7/21/2010 4:17 AM, Jochen Schulz wrote: Paul Chany: I decide today that I'm going to upgrade my Debian GNU/Linux Lenny to Squeeze. I try to search on debian.org site for an exact howto for this, but find nothing. Mayhep I don't know how to search effectively? The keyword you need to look

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze - Howto?

2010-07-21 Thread Paul Chany
Jordon Bedwell writes: > On Jul 21, 2010, at 5:00 AM, Paul Chany wrote: >> >> Could you please drop me the dd command for this task? > > Here is a little article that explains it (while it might seem out > of date it still works ~ gotta love linux for that) > http://www.mckeay.net/2004/10/18/usin

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze - Howto?

2010-07-21 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On Jul 21, 2010, at 5:00 AM, Paul Chany wrote: > > Could you please drop me the dd command for this task? Here is a little article that explains it (while it might seem out of date it still works ~ gotta love linux for that) http://www.mckeay.net/2004/10/18/using-dd-to-clone-a-hd/ -- To UNSUB

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze - Howto?

2010-07-21 Thread Paul Chany
Jordon Bedwell writes: > On Jul 21, 2010, at 4:23 AM, Paul Chany wrote: > >> Jochen Schulz writes: >> >>> Paul Chany: I decide today that I'm going to upgrade my Debian GNU/Linux Lenny to Squeeze. I try to search on debian.org site for an exact howto for this, but >>>

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze - Howto?

2010-07-21 Thread Jochen Schulz
Paul Chany: > > Moreover, I decide to migrate my 32-bit Debian GNU/Linux Lenny > installation to 64-bit one (i386 to x86_64). I'm going to use this > howto: http://wiki.debian.org/Migrate32To64Bit Interesting approach. I would probably just mkfs my swap partition and debootstrap there. Then reboo

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze - Howto?

2010-07-21 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On Jul 21, 2010, at 4:23 AM, Paul Chany wrote: > Jochen Schulz writes: > >> Paul Chany: >>> >>> I decide today that I'm going to upgrade my Debian GNU/Linux Lenny >>> to Squeeze. >>> >>> I try to search on debian.org site for an exact howto for this, but >>> find nothing. Mayhep I don't know

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze - Howto?

2010-07-21 Thread Paul Chany
Jochen Schulz writes: > Paul Chany: >> >> I decide today that I'm going to upgrade my Debian GNU/Linux Lenny >> to Squeeze. >> >> I try to search on debian.org site for an exact howto for this, but >> find nothing. Mayhep I don't know how to search effectively? > > The keyword you need to look fo

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze - Howto?

2010-07-21 Thread Jochen Schulz
Paul Chany: > > I decide today that I'm going to upgrade my Debian GNU/Linux Lenny to > Squeeze. > > I try to search on debian.org site for an exact howto for this, but > find nothing. Mayhep I don't know how to search effectively? The keyword you need to look for is "release notes". You will fi