I am trying to upgrade my Debian system to current stable release. I tried a simple (simplistic?!) apt-get upgrade, but apparently my system was out of date enough that it failed to do a two release upgrade. So I found: http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-upgrade-a-debian-etch-system-server-and-desktop-to-debian-lenny and tried to do that, but it is also failing. I reverted wo what I think is a stable etch install, but can't get the next step to stable (==lenny) to work. All details below, any hints appreciated! Right now: /etc/version = 4.0, uname-a -> kernel is 2.6.3 ================================================== alpha:/usr/X11R6/bin# apt-get update ... Fetched 3B in 0s (3B/s) Reading package lists... Done alpha:/usr/X11R6/bin# apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following packages have been kept back: ... 349 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 128 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/166MB of archives. After unpacking 60.8MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Extracting templates from packages: 100% Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 57982 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch9+b1 (using .../archives/libc6_2.7-18_i386.deb) ... Checking for services that may need to be restarted... Checking init scripts... WARNING: POSIX threads library NPTL requires kernel version 2.6.8 or later. If you use a kernel 2.4, please upgrade it before installing glibc. The installation of a 2.6 kernel _could_ ask you to install a new libc first, this is NOT a bug, and should *NOT* be reported. In that case, please add etch sources to your /etc/apt/sources.list and run: apt-get install -t etch linux-image-2.6 Then reboot into this new kernel, and proceed with your upgrade dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.7-18_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.7-18_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) alpha:/usr/X11R6/bin# apt-get install -t etch linux-image-2.6 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Package linux-image-2.6 is a virtual package provided by: linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-686 2.6.26-13lenny2 linux-image-2.6.26-1-vserver-686-bigmem 2.6.26-13lenny2 linux-image-2.6.26-1-vserver-686 2.6.26-13lenny2 linux-image-2.6.26-1-openvz-686 2.6.26-13lenny2 linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 2.6.26-13lenny2 linux-image-2.6.26-1-686-bigmem 2.6.26-13lenny2 linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 2.6.26-13lenny2 linux-image-2.6.26-1-486 2.6.26-13lenny2 You should explicitly select one to install. E: Package linux-image-2.6 has no installation candidate alpha:/usr/X11R6/bin# apt-get install -f linux-image-2.6.26-1-486 2.6.26-13lenny2 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done E: Couldn't find package 2.6.26-13lenny2 alpha:/usr/X11R6/bin# apt-get install -f linux-image-2.6.26-1-486 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: initramfs-tools libc6 libselinux1 libvolume-id0 udev Suggested packages: locales glibc-doc libc6-i686 linux-doc-2.6.26 Recommended packages: busybox busybox-initramfs The following NEW packages will be installed: initramfs-tools libvolume-id0 linux-image-2.6.26-1-486 udev The following packages will be upgraded: libc6 libselinux1 2 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 475 not upgraded. Need to get 20.6MB/25.1MB of archives. After unpacking 60.6MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/main libvolume-id0 0.125-7 [76.1kB] Get:2 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main linux-image-2.6.26-1-486 2.6.26-13lenny2 [20.2MB] Get:3 http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/main udev 0.125-7 [253kB] Get:4 http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/main initramfs-tools 0.92o [75.3kB] Fetched 20.6MB in 54s (378kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 57982 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch9+b1 (using .../archives/libc6_2.7-18_i386.deb) ... Checking for services that may need to be restarted... Checking init scripts... WARNING: POSIX threads library NPTL requires kernel version 2.6.8 or later. If you use a kernel 2.4, please upgrade it before installing glibc. The installation of a 2.6 kernel _could_ ask you to install a new libc first, this is NOT a bug, and should *NOT* be reported. In that case, please add etch sources to your /etc/apt/sources.list and run: apt-get install -t etch linux-image-2.6 Then reboot into this new kernel, and proceed with your upgrade dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.7-18_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.7-18_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) alpha:/usr/bin# cat /etc/*version* 4.0 alpha:/usr/bin# uname -a Linux alpha 2.6.3-1-386 #2 Tue Feb 24 20:20:23 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux /var/log/dpkg.log:: (many of these!) 2009-03-29 08:27:34 upgrade libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch9+b1 2.7-18 2009-03-29 08:27:34 status half-configured libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch9+b1 2009-03-29 08:27:34 status unpacked libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch9+b1 2009-03-29 08:27:34 status half-installed libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch9+b1 2009-03-29 08:27:41 status unpacked libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch9+b1 2009-03-29 08:27:43 status installed libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch9+b1
Where exactly are you having problems? Where did you get that ancient kernel 2.6.3 from? The Etch kernel is 2.6.18.
apt-upgrade failing.. Well, 1) the problem is that dist-upgrade fails. and more specifically even if I just convert apt sources to stable (from etch), apt-fails - can't upgrade, or even do anything - it is in a stuck state. Errors all shown above - main thing seems to be a lack of ability to get libc6. Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.7-18_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) /var/log/dpkg.log:: (many of these!) 2009-03-29 08:27:34 upgrade libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch9+b1 2.7-18 2009-03-29 08:27:34 status half-configured libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch9+b1 2009-03-29 08:27:34 status unpacked libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch9+b1 2009-03-29 08:27:34 status half-installed libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch9+b1 2009-03-29 08:27:41 status unpacked libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch9+b1 2009-03-29 08:27:43 status installed libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch9+b1 2) Where'd I get the old kernel? Hmm, from apt! I hadn't upgraded this system in awhile, it was stable, and just running along. If my kernel is old, why does apt-update not want to update it?
I think I got it all (almost) solved. Basically I manually had apt install a newer etch kernel, and then apt could take it from there. Ref: http://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ade...-714466/page2.html?posted=1#post3493165
