[SOLVED] Problem attempting to upgrade 15.0 to current

glennmcc · 10-26-2023, 01:04 AM

Houston, we have a problem.

Clipped from 'man slackpkg'
___________
Slackpkg can be used to upgrade the whole distribution.
The usual way is to do:

# slackpkg update
# slackpkg install-new
# slackpkg upgrade-all
# slackpkg clean-system
________________________________________________________________

This little video shows exactly where the attempted upgrade from 15.0
to current goes wrong during the 2nd step of 'slackpkg install-new'

http://glennmcc.org/Major_Problem.webm

Petri Kaukasoina · 10-26-2023, 01:14 AM

Yes, man slackpkg gives bad advice. UPGRADE.TXT tells:

Code:

1.  Upgrade your glibc shared libraries. This is important, or things
    might go haywire during the next part of the upgrade:

    upgradepkg --install-new /root/slackware/a/aaa_glibc-solibs-*.txz

In this post https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ml#post6434992 I tell slackpkg users run slackpkg upgrade aaa_glibc-solibs before slackpkg install-new. And in the previous post https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ml#post6434978 I explain why.

Petri Kaukasoina · 10-26-2023, 01:27 AM

If you don't know how to fix it, try this:

Code:

ncftpget ftp://elektroni.phys.tut.fi/slackware64-current/slackware64/a/aaa_glibc-solibs-2.38-x86_64-3.txz
upgradepkg aaa_glibc-solibs-2.38-x86_64-3.txz

And then continue with slackpkg.

glennmcc · 10-26-2023, 12:30 PM

[QUOTE=Petri Kaukasoina;6460943]Yes, man slackpkg gives bad advice. UPGRADE.TXT tells:

Code:

1.  Upgrade your glibc shared libraries. This is important, or things
    might go haywire during the next part of the upgrade:

    upgradepkg --install-new /root/slackware/a/aaa_glibc-solibs-*.txz

Thank you, I will try that.

glennmcc · 10-26-2023, 01:42 PM

Nope... still no good.

As soon as libunistring gets upgraded I then get several hundred of these errors
most of which have scrolled off-screen.

Code:

Package: xwininfo-1.1.6-x86_64-1.txz
Downloading http://192.168.1.11/slackware/slackware64-current/./slackware64/x/xwininfo-1.1.6-x86_64-1.txz...
wget: error while loading shared libraries: libunistring.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Downloading http://192.168.1.11/slackware/slackware64-current/./slackware64/x/xwininfo-1.1.6-x86_64-1.txz.asc...
wget: error while loading shared libraries: libunistring.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ERROR - Package not installed! Not found error!

Package: xwud-1.0.6-x86_64-1.txz
Downloading http://192.168.1.11/slackware/slackware64-current/./slackware64/x/xwud-1.0.6-x86_64-1.txz...
wget: error while loading shared libraries: libunistring.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Downloading http://192.168.1.11/slackware/slackware64-current/./slackware64/x/xwud-1.0.6-x86_64-1.txz.asc...
wget: error while loading shared libraries: libunistring.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ERROR - Package not installed! Not found error!

Package: xxHash-0.8.2-x86_64-1.txz
Downloading http://192.168.1.11/slackware/slackware64-current/./slackware64/l/xxHash-0.8.2-x86_64-1.txz...
wget: error while loading shared libraries: libunistring.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Downloading http://192.168.1.11/slackware/slackware64-current/./slackware64/l/xxHash-0.8.2-x86_64-1.txz.asc...
wget: error while loading shared libraries: libunistring.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ERROR - Package not installed! Not found error!

Package: xz-5.4.4-x86_64-1.txz
Downloading http://192.168.1.11/slackware/slackware64-current/./slackware64/a/xz-5.4.4-x86_64-1.txz...
wget: error while loading shared libraries: libunistring.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Downloading http://192.168.1.11/slackware/slackware64-current/./slackware64/a/xz-5.4.4-x86_64-1.txz.asc...
wget: error while loading shared libraries: libunistring.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ERROR - Package not installed! Not found error!

Package: yptools-4.2.3-x86_64-6.txz
Downloading http://192.168.1.11/slackware/slackware64-current/./slackware64/n/yptools-4.2.3-x86_64-6.txz...
wget: error while loading shared libraries: libunistring.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Downloading http://192.168.1.11/slackware/slackware64-current/./slackware64/n/yptools-4.2.3-x86_64-6.txz.asc...
wget: error while loading shared libraries: libunistring.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ERROR - Package not installed! Not found error!

Package: zlib-1.3-x86_64-1.txz
Downloading http://192.168.1.11/slackware/slackware64-current/./slackware64/l/zlib-1.3-x86_64-1.txz...
wget: error while loading shared libraries: libunistring.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Downloading http://192.168.1.11/slackware/slackware64-current/./slackware64/l/zlib-1.3-x86_64-1.txz.asc...
wget: error while loading shared libraries: libunistring.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ERROR - Package not installed! Not found error!

Package: zsh-5.9-x86_64-1.txz
Downloading http://192.168.1.11/slackware/slackware64-current/./slackware64/ap/zsh-5.9-x86_64-1.txz...
wget: error while loading shared libraries: libunistring.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Downloading http://192.168.1.11/slackware/slackware64-current/./slackware64/ap/zsh-5.9-x86_64-1.txz.asc...
wget: error while loading shared libraries: libunistring.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ERROR - Package not installed! Not found error!

Package: zstd-1.5.5-x86_64-3.txz
Downloading http://192.168.1.11/slackware/slackware64-current/./slackware64/l/zstd-1.5.5-x86_64-3.txz...
wget: error while loading shared libraries: libunistring.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Downloading http://192.168.1.11/slackware/slackware64-current/./slackware64/l/zstd-1.5.5-x86_64-3.txz.asc...
wget: error while loading shared libraries: libunistring.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ERROR - Package not installed! Not found error!

I'll try again but this time I'll try waiting till all other packages have been upgraded before upgrading libunistring.

It's a good thing that I keep a 100% backup of the system to restore otherwise I'd need to re-install from scratch.

Petri Kaukasoina · 10-26-2023, 02:31 PM

For some reason your slackpkg downloads one package at a time, then installs it, and downloads the next one, and so on.

You upgraded libunistring before wget. The old wget stopped working because it is built against the older libunistring you didn't have any longer. Without wget slackpkg didn't download any longer.

If you upgrade wget before libunistring, wget will stop working because it is built against the newer libunistring you don't have yet. Without wget slackpkg won't download any longer.

Because of this chicken-and-egg problem /etc/slackpkg/slackpkg.conf has this on:

Code:

# If this variable is set to "on", all files will be downloaded before the
# requested operation (install or upgrade) is performed.   If set to "off",
# then the files will be downloaded and the operation (install/upgrade)
# performed one by one.  Default=on
DOWNLOAD_ALL=on

Have you changed it?

glennmcc · 10-26-2023, 02:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Petri Kaukasoina

For some reason your slackpkg downloads one package at a time, then installs it, and downloads the next one, and so on.

You upgraded libunistring before wget. The old wget stopped working because it is built against the older libunistring you didn't have any longer. Without wget slackpkg didn't download any longer.

If you upgrade wget before libunistring, wget will stop working because it is built against the newer libunistring you don't have yet. Without wget slackpkg won't download any longer.

Because of this chicken-and-egg problem /etc/slackpkg/slackpkg.conf has this on:

Code:

# If this variable is set to "on", all files will be downloaded before the
# requested operation (install or upgrade) is performed.   If set to "off",
# then the files will be downloaded and the operation (install/upgrade)
# performed one by one.  Default=on
DOWNLOAD_ALL=on

Have you changed it?

Yes, I changed it to DOWNLOAD_ALL=off so that I can watch each package being upgraded.

I'll change it back to DOWNLOAD_ALL=on

hitest · 10-26-2023, 03:10 PM

Excellent instructions as always by Petri K.
I'm lazy. I would just back up my important things: docs, pictures, etc. and then download a slackware64-current ISO from tadgy and do a clean install of -current. Then restore your data from back-ups.

glennmcc · 10-26-2023, 03:32 PM

That did the job

The 2 'key points' for a successful upgrade from 15.0 to current are,

1) slackpkg upgrade aaa_glibc-solibs before upgrading anything else

2) be sure to have DOWNLOAD_ALL=on in /etc/slackpkg/slackpkg.conf

Thank you !

Might be a good idea to have this info in 'man slackpkg'

Tonus · 10-26-2023, 07:05 PM

Good catch !

Since I had this problem following current a while back, I always keep a copy of my targeted Slackware tree(s) with rsync (thanks AlienBob !) and upgrade with basic

Code:

upgradepkg --terse *.t?z

I check the changelog for additions and deletions.

glennmcc · 10-27-2023, 11:36 AM

Hmmmm.... it seems that _this_ is not working correctly.

Code:

+--------------------------+
Mon Feb  8 05:13:26 UTC 2021

ap/slackpkg-15.0-noarch-1.txz:  Upgraded.
  These are some of the important changes (see the ChangeLog for more):
  Note that this slackpkg release contains a backwards-incompatible change to
  the blacklisting syntax (e.g. glibc ---> glibc-*). This changes the prior
  behavior of the blacklist function; previously, adding "glibc" to the
  blacklist would cause glibc, glibc-profile, glibc-zoneinfo, et al to be
  ignored by slackpkg. The new behavior is that *only* the glibc package is
  ignored. If you want to blacklist all packages whose names begin with glibc,
  you would need to add "glibc.*" to the blacklist now. Also note that any
  special characters, e.g. "+", will need to be escaped in the blacklist file.
  To blacklist entire package sets, a trailing slash is now required: e.g. kde/
  Another backwards-incompatibility warning: check-updates will now return 1 if
  there are updates available - this will make it easier to use this feature
  with cron (thanks to Peter Hyman).
  Added support for Slackware-AArch64 (thanks to Stuart Winter).

  Added aaa_glibc-solibs and aaa_libraries to the "do these first" routine. <----
[If that worked correctly, we _shouldn't_ need to first upgrade aaa_glibc-solibs manually before proceeding with an upgrade.]
  Thanks to Robby Workman for the new slackpkg release!
_________________

Petri Kaukasoina · 10-27-2023, 11:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by glennmcc

Added aaa_glibc-solibs and aaa_libraries to the "do these first" routine. <----
[If that worked correctly, we _shouldn't_ need to first upgrade aaa_glibc-solibs manually before proceeding with an upgrade.]

Yes, it's taken care in slackpkg upgrade-all. Packages pkgtools, aaa_glibc-solibs, glibc-solibs, aaa_libraries, aaa_elflibs, readline, sed are in the "do these first" list. But before that you ran slackpkg install-new, and it only installs new 'Added' packages, it does not upgrade, so the "do these first" list was not considered. wget stopped working already when slackpkg install-new installed openssl11.

glennmcc · 10-27-2023, 12:34 PM

Well then, it _should_ work correctly and _not_ require the manual upgrade of aaa_glibc-solibs
if this is the order in which the upgrade is done ?

slackpkg update
slackpkg upgrade-all
slackpkg install-new
slackpkg clean-system

Petri Kaukasoina · 10-27-2023, 12:39 PM

This is the script I have been using to keep slackware up to date. It doesn't ask anything, so a good blacklist is a must.

If slackpkg or aaa_glibc-solibs has a new version, it upgrades them first before running install-new and upgrade-all.

Code:

#!/bin/sh

# use this only with a working /etc/slackpkg/blacklist

# afterwards, consider the .new files if exist, for example:
# slackpkg new-config

slackpkg check-updates 2> /dev/null | grep -E 'No updated packages|No news' && exit

if [ "$(/bin/id -u)" != 0 ]; then
  echo 'Run as root.'
  exit 1
fi

export TERSE=0

slackpkg -batch=on update

OLD=$(cd /var/adm/packages; echo slackpkg-*)
NEW=$(sed -n '0,/^ap\/\(slackpkg-.*\)\.txz:.*$/s//\1/p' /var/lib/slackpkg/ChangeLog.txt)
NEW=${NEW:-$OLD}
if [ "$OLD" != "$NEW" ]; then
  slackpkg -batch=on -default_answer=y upgrade slackpkg
  echo Check /etc/slackpkg config files. Continue?
  echo '<return> if ok'
  echo '<Ctrl-C> to stop'
  read line
  slackpkg -batch=on update
fi

OLD=$(cd /var/adm/packages; echo aaa_glibc-solibs-*)
NEW=$(sed -n '0,/^a\/\(aaa_glibc-solibs-.*\)\.txz:.*$/s//\1/p' /var/lib/slackpkg/ChangeLog.txt)
NEW=${NEW:-$OLD}
if [ "$OLD" != "$NEW" ]; then
  slackpkg -batch=on -default_answer=y upgrade aaa_glibc-solibs
fi

slackpkg -batch=on -default_answer=y install-new
slackpkg -batch=on -default_answer=y upgrade-all
slackpkg -batch=on -default_answer=y clean-system
slackpkg -batch=on new-config

Petri Kaukasoina · 10-27-2023, 12:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by glennmcc

Well then, it _should_ work correctly and _not_ require the manual upgrade of aaa_glibc-solibs
if this is the order in which the upgrade is done ?

slackpkg update
slackpkg upgrade-all
slackpkg install-new
slackpkg clean-system

No. The correct order is this:

Code:

slackpkg update
slackpkg upgrade aaa_glibc-solibs
slackpkg install-new
slackpkg upgrade-all
slackpkg clean-system

If you upgrade-all before install-new, you upgrade some packages to versions with new dependencies you don't yet have before install-new.