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Upgrading from old versions (was Re: master down)

Chris Fearnley <cjf@netaxs.com> writes:
> Don't give up so easily.  Although skipping releases (1.1 -> 1.3) makes
> things harder, It can work.  Besides we need clues to help prevent
> these problems from happening.

I made the "mistake" (not really - just initially more hassle than I
expected) of trying to upgrade what I now suspect was a pre-1.1 Debian
system directly to 1.3.  The warning bells should have sounded when dpkg
claimed to not recognise the "--clear-avail" option, but I proceeded anyway,
assuming I could fix this when I'd upgraded dpkg.  Installing ldso hosed the
system - the symlinks to ld.so and similar were mucked up (specifically,
ld.so was still a symlink to the old version, which had been deleted).  I
don't know exactly what went wrong.  Booting from a rescue disk (Rescue
disk?  Of course I had a rescue disk...  :-)  I fixed the symlinks, and
re-installed ldso (which made them hard links), and everything went smoothly
from there.

The only thing I noticed that *might* give a clue to the problem is, as
mentioned above, before the upgrade, ld.so was a symlink to the "real
thing", while afterwards it was a hard link.

				Warwick

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Warwick Harvey                                    email: warwick@cs.mu.OZ.AU
Department of Computer Science                        phone: +61-3-9344-9171
University of Melbourne                                 fax: +61-3-9348-1184
Parkville, Victoria, AUSTRALIA 3052     web: http://www.cs.mu.OZ.AU/~warwick


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