Etch to Lenny: Update /boot/grub
After doing a dist-upgrade from Etch to Lenny with apt-get, my desktop is having trouble letting go of it's kernel nominatives.
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rooster@royrogers:~$ uname -r Code:
rooster@royrogers:~$ uname -a Code:
# Kernel image management overrides Code:
royrogers:/home/rooster# update-grub Did several apt-get udates. Did 5 reboots. installed libfam0c102 Nevertheless, I'm not seeing version 5 as per: Code:
~$ cat /etc/debian_version Code:
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..so what makes you think you dist-upgraded?
Post your sources.list. Post Code:
dpkg -l | grep -E "^ii.*(kernel|linux-image|base-files)" |
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rooster@royrogers:~$ dpkg -l | grep -E "^ii.*(kernel|linux-image|base-files)" I ran "apt-get dist-upgrade" in terminal after editing my sources list to retrieve lenny. Code:
deb http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/ lenny main Code:
royrogers:/home/rooster# aptitudeaptitude As you infer, and as I have been finding out, the upgrade didn't complete. Would you suggest I run the command again? |
You're certainly still on Etch. Did you do "apt-get update" after editing sources.list? And did it complete? Do update then dist-upgrade.
Also, if you haven't read the release notes, you should. http://www.debian.org/releases/stabl...rading.en.html |
Try this
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aptitude update |
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...else I would have made a note of it/them in my running notes. Quote:
At this moment, I'm inclined to exercise an abundance of caution and re-backup my docs and /etc just in case I run into another snag. |
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Thanks plgv, I spent the best part of a week reviewing literature on apt-get versus aptitude, including Aaron Toponce's article: http://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/. I'm too much of a newbie to presume to have an opinion worth bruiting. But for my purposes I made the decision to stick with apt-get based on conclusions and observations of others. To whit: 1. If what your using works for you, don't change. 2. The evidence that aptitude handles (removing?)dependencies better than apt-get is presumptive and argumentative. 3. Improvements to apt-get are forthcoming. I do appreciate your advice. I might have uncovered the problem. Although I don't know how to recall the actual command I gave for the upgrade, I suspect it might not have been: apt-get dist-upgrade, but "apt-get full upgrade". Whether this would make a difference or not, I dunno. |
dist-upgrade was renamed to full-upgrade.
Does /etc/apt/preferences exist? What does it contain ? |
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