Upgrading from woody to sarge: niggles and solutions

Many thanks to the Debian team for the release of sarge as stable. I have now belatedly got round to dist-upgrading, which mostly went smoothly. I did however come across a few problems: 1) Home, End etc. keys not working in jed 2) GTK apps failing to start with "relocation error: libXft.so.2:

Re: Emacs21 install problem [upgrading from woody to sarge]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 09:40:37AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello: > > TIA, while upgrading from woody to sarge emacs would not properly install. > Error info > > Setting up emacs21 (21.4a-1) ... > emacs-install emacs21 > install/auctex: Setting up for emacs21.

Emacs21 install problem [upgrading from woody to sarge]

Hello: TIA, while upgrading from woody to sarge emacs would not properly install. Error info Setting up emacs21 (21.4a-1) ... emacs-install emacs21 install/auctex: Setting up for emacs21... emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/auctex emacs21 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common

Re: Upgrading from Woody to Sarge on PowerPC

Hi Kent- Thanks for your reply. Kent West wrote: > > You'll need to run "aptitude update" prior to running "aptitude -f > --with-recommends dist-upgrade". > The first step goes out and gets the list of available packages; the > next step goes and gets, not the list, but the actual packages. I a

Re: Upgrading from Woody to Sarge on PowerPC

Kent West wrote: >What I would do is return the "sources.list" file to its original form, >and run "aptitide update". If the system updates properly, go back into >sources.list and comment all but one line. Then change that one line so >that instead of "stable" it reads "sarge", > And you'll have

Re: Upgrading from Woody to Sarge on PowerPC

Kevin wrote: >OldWorld PowerPC (604e). I recently installed Woody on such a >machine using the 3.0r4 binary CDs for PowerPC and the resulting system >seems to work fine, but I didn't realize how old the software was in >Woody and would like to upgrade to Sarge > > >My /etc/apt/sources.list file

Upgrading from Woody to Sarge on PowerPC

Hi Folks- I'm new to Debian but have 10 years of experience with Linux from Slackware, Mandrake, Redhat, SuSE, and most lately Gentoo. I'm experimenting with Debian in general because of its universality and in particular because Gentoo doesn't seem to have an install capability for the OldWorld

upgrading from woody to sarge via cds

hi all i downloaded the 14 iso images of sarge i have a woody machine how do i upgrade it to sarge. whats the procedure Regards, Vijaya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

upgrading from woody to sarge

Hi all, I have a mahcine with woody on it..I would like to upgrade it to Sarge. How do i do that? Should i use Sarge cds for that... or edit /etc/apt/sources.list Would i lose any data if i do so.. Its a server so i wouldnt like to lose any data.. How can i accomplish that Regards, Vijaya --

Re: smbfs problems after upgrading from Woody to Sarge

Sam Snow said: > Hello, > Further follow-up. I am getting one error message at startup that I don't remember having see before: Sep 10 11:01:20 aslan modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.4.27-1-686/modules.dep Sep 10 11:01:21 aslan last message repeated 3 times

smbfs problems after upgrading from Woody to Sarge

Hello, I earlier this week upgraded from woody to sarge on a machine that does a nightly backup to another machine via a samba share. Since then I have had some issues with accessing that share with I believe are a result of the upgrade. I upgraded the kernel at the same time to 2.4.27-1-686 #1 vi