Your message dated Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:56:33 +0200 with message-id <201304291756.37354.holger@layer-acht.org> and subject line closing... has caused the Debian Bug report #609566, regarding upgrade-reports: Lenny>Squeeze upgrade not quite there yet to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact owner@bugs.debian.org immediately.) -- 609566: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=609566 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact owner@bugs.debian.org with problems
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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: upgrade-reports: Lenny>Squeeze upgrade not quite there yet
- From: Neal Murphy <neal.p.murphy@alum.wpi.edu>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:08:29 -0500
- Message-id: <20110110220829.5072.9595.reportbug@playground.murent.us>
Package: upgrade-reports Severity: important Deciding it was time, I upgraded my old Lenny system to Squeeze. I followed the multi-step instructions (upgrade, install new kernel, install new udev, dist-upgrade. Or so I thought. The upgrade seemed to go well enough, as did the kernel and udev steps. The dist-upgrade failed: update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686-bigmem Errors were encountered while processing: vde2 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) That left ~255 old packages undeleted. It took a while, but I think I finally got the mess cleaned up, re-ran dist-upgrade, then continued cleaning up. Bits of KDE 3.5 weren't deleted, bits of KDE 4 weren't installed, and it took days to get the user side of KDE to a point where it is marginally usable again. But this is all par for the course so far; the upgrade isn't a finished product yet. I do have some observations. 1) If my IDE ZIP drive is plugged in, it is detected as /dev/sda; my first SATA drive is then detected as /dev/sdb. The system panics because it cannot find its partitions. For the time being, I've unplugged the ZIP drive. I've not tried booting with USB drives plugged in. either udev did not upgrade properly, or the rules need stweaking. 2) Using X and KDE, 'transient' windows will randomly leave their images behind, as though X's backing store isn't working right. Forcing a redraw usually cures the problem. I've no clue where this problem might be (fbdev?). 3) I've been using my KDE user environment since Etch. It's definitely time to dump it and start anew; I'll do that once I figure out how to save kmail settings and konqueror bookmarks and akregator histories. It's gotten to where konqueror is simply unusable: most ajax sites still don't work, the location bar rarely displays correctly (if at all), and editting toolbars and some settings usually results in a crash. Oh, and rendering HTML like <scan style="size:50%">Some text<img src={smilie}></span> as xhtml transient (replace {smilie} with an URL to a smilie image a little larger than the text) causes konqueror 3.5.10 to display an extraneous scrollbar and crash, and causes konqueror 4.4.5 to just display an extraneous scroll bar. Move the image outside the span and all is well. 4) Evolution text drag-n-drop using the mouse doesn't work at all, and drag-selection using the keyboard has very limited functionality. It may be that upgrades just won't work very well on systems with 8 years of user cruft built up. For example, I think I was well into Lenny before I discovered the cause of a certain filesystem problem causing crashes and hangs: the ReiserFS 3.6 driver worked well with a 3.5 disk structure until file sizes exceeded 2GB. But as often as that happened, I never lost data, even when I had to rebuild the filesystem. If my opinion counted for anything, I'd say Lenny-to-Squeeze upgrade for user systems isn't yet ready. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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- Subject: closing...
- From: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
- Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:56:33 +0200
- Message-id: <201304291756.37354.holger@layer-acht.org>
Hi, thanks for your upgrade report. Should the issue described still exists for squeeze2wheezy upgrades, please submit a new report. cheers, HolgerAttachment: signature.asc
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