Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-18 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 10:58:33AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 11:54:24AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 10:27:29AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 08:57:03AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > On

Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 11:54:24AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 10:27:29AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 08:57:03AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 07:38:37PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > >

Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-12 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 10:27:29AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 08:57:03AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 07:38:37PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > > > why don't you boot sarge, chroot into etch and install a kernel from >

Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 08:51:39AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 07:38:37PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > why don't you boot sarge, chroot into etch and install a kernel from > > inside the chroot? I think udev wants a kernel >= 2.6.15, IIRC. > > Interest

Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 08:57:03AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 07:38:37PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > why don't you boot sarge, chroot into etch and install a kernel from > > inside the chroot? I think udev wants a kernel >= 2.6.15, IIRC. > > Actually

Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-11 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 11 December 2006 14:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 07:38:37PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 09:04:13AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Unfortunately, after the mass upgrade yesterday, the system now boots > > > without either

Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-11 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 07:38:37PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 09:04:13AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, after the mass upgrade yesterday, the system now boots > > without either a functioning X or a functioning net. udev complains > > t

Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-11 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 07:38:37PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 09:04:13AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, after the mass upgrade yesterday, the system now boots > > without either a functioning X or a functioning net. udev complains > > t

Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-08 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 12/7/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 03:30:47PM -0500, Sarunas Burdulis wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > After failing to reconstitute my etch system (details abundantly > > available on this mail

Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 11:40:27AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I tried that, and got a *huge* raft of proposed deletions -- just from > asking for aptitude to be upgraded. what did you use to upgrade aptitude? you might want to use something that thinks its less intelligent to do this. I

Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-08 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 04:50:34PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 02:49:57PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > After failing to reconstitute my etch system (details abundantly > > available on this mailing list a few months ago), I wiped its partition > > and tried to ins

Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-08 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 05:05:05PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 03:30:47PM -0500, Sarunas Burdulis wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > Sound like what I have seen "as usual" while doing dist upgrades (Debian > > and Ubuntu). Several a

Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-08 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 04:50:34PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 02:49:57PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > After failing to reconstitute my etch system (details abundantly > > available on this mailing list a few months ago), I wiped its partition > > and tried to ins

Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-07 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 02:49:57PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After failing to reconstitute my etch system (details abundantly > available on this mailing list a few months ago), I wiped its partition > and tried to install etch form scratch using installer release candidate > one, only t

Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-07 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 03:30:47PM -0500, Sarunas Burdulis wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > After failing to reconstitute my etch system (details abundantly > > available on this mailing list a few months ago), I wiped its partition > > an

Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-07 Thread Sarunas Burdulis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After failing to reconstitute my etch system (details abundantly > available on this mailing list a few months ago), I wiped its partition > and tried to install etch form scratch using installer release candidate > one, o

sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-07 Thread hendrik
After failing to reconstitute my etch system (details abundantly available on this mailing list a few months ago), I wiped its partition and tried to install etch form scratch using installer release candidate one, only to find that lilo crashed when it was trying to make the system bootable (i