Re: [Hampshire] X is sick

Adam Trickett wrote:

>On Sunday 22 April 2007 16:26, Mike Burrows wrote:
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>>You're probably mostly running etch now. Does your
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>>>/etc/apt/sources.list refer to sarge, or stable? If it refers to
>>>stable, then you will probably need to do "aptitude dist-upgrade" at a
>>>minimum, as you'll have a partial upgrade to etch (the new stable).
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>>> Hugo.
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>>It refers to stable. Any gotchas before I do this dist upgrade please?
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>Various:
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>You have to change the running kernel with a fundamentally different one.It
>went okay for me but if it doesn't your system will be unbootable - so make
>sure you have some kind of live system rescue disk at hand.
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>Any binaries installed in the /usr/X11R6/bin that didn't get put there by a
>standard Debian package, e.g. a manual Opera install will break the X.org
>upgrade horribly.
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>You may hit some circular dependencies depending on what you have installed. I
>had that on two system with kdessh and ssh. You just need to manually remove
>one package let the other install and then put the one you deleted back in
>again.
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>Remember that from now on in you should use aptitude not apt-get and that it's
>best to install the Debian signatures as early as you can, or the install
>process will get tedious!
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>See:
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>http://andreeleidenfrost.blogspot.com/2006/12/upgrade-testing-with-qemu.html
>http://www.debian-administration.org/tag/etch-upgrade
>http://www.debian-administration.org/tag/sarge%20to%20etch
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Thanks. I don't suppose there is any way i can roll back to sarge is there?

Mike