Upgrade to Debian 3.1
Saturday 11 June 2005 ◷ 00:33
About a month ago I decided not to try to migrate from libc++5 to libc++6 myself, but wait for the upcoming upgrade of Debian that would provide this in an easy package. So when the upgrade was there I couldn't wait and just ran apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade... That kinda blew up in my face. Being remote and rebooting made me loose the box. When I got home it turned out a package to load kernel modules was removed and the network drivers wouldn't get loaded anymore, and about any module needed to get that module back on that box couldn't be loaded either...
Well, they don't call 'em rescue discs for nothing! Popped my LordSutch ISOLINUX CD in the drive, booted with the root filesystem argument and using this 2.4 kernel with the crippled 3.1 Debian installation repairing the damage was easy. And not much later I could reboot into kernel 2.6.11.11 and the Debian 3.1 setup. So, would this qualify as Serious breakage? Well, remotely just running apt without reading the documentation, I was asking for it (The laptop I upgraded following the steps in the docs didn't have this trouble). And if I didn't want these kind of things to happen I'd be using Windows, OS X or RedHat. I like the challange, and I won't recommend running Linux to someone who doesn't have another machine around to find out how to bring a dead one back up.
And the bttv is also doing it again.