[64studio-devel] 0.6.0 -> 0.8.1 upgrade

[Michael Jarosch]

free at 64studio.com wrote:
> I do not suggest to upgrade through 0.7.0, but rather to upgrade
> directly to 0.8.1 (the testing branch), so that you fix
> possible troubles only once.
>   
Hi, there!

I'm back again with my new system! You see: I've managed the upgrade to 
0.8.1, but not without any trouble. Let me report you:

1) I changed the repository to

deb http://apt.64studio.com/64studio/testing    64studio        main

and threw out the debian repositories I got.

2) I started an apt-get dist-upgrade. after 3 or 4 hours I got all the 
packages, but the upgrade stopped twice as the system tried to configure 
the packages. First on package xcurser-themes, second on 
64studio-tasksel-data. Both tried to install files that have already 
been installed by other packages, namely xlibs-data (for xcurser-themes) 
and 64studio (for 64studio-tasksel-data).  An "apt-get -f install" 
helped on both problems and the upgrade could continue.

3) As the upgrade-process was over X started without any further 
configuration! Cool! I started synaptic to delete all packages that it 
told me to be "veraltet" (too old, obsolete) from the system. (There was 
also a package named "64studio" in version 0.6.0. Maybe this should be 
automatically be removed in future?)
After that I installed all the packages of 64studio that haven't already 
been installed. Time for a reboot.

4) "grub-update" somehow got broken through the upgrade-process and 
didn't configure the menu-lst. So I booted with the last installed 
kernel (2.6.17-2-multimedia-amd64-k8-smp), thinking it was the old 
2.6.13. No problem. I changed the menu-lst by hand and rebooted - this 
time with the right kernel (I don't need multiprocessor-support). As I 
wanted to remove the smp-kernel I got the error message with 
grub-update. A "dpkg-reconfigure grub" didn't help so I tried "apt-get 
--reinstall install grub" - success!

5) Now I'm close to be finished. There are only 3 problems left on the 
system I can't solve by myself. First: On aptitude "libsdl-ttf2.0-0" 
appears to be upgradable, it also installs without an error but it keeps 
to be in the upgradable list. (no big problem). Second: The package 
"bootsplash" can't be installed. (Sad, but not so important for 
producing audio.) Third: The alsa-modules are broken. No possibility for 
me to modprobe them. I tried "dpkg-reconfigure" and "apt-get --reinstall 
install". At boottime and when using alsaconf I got this error-message 
for every single module that needs to be installed: "version magic 
'2.6.17-2-multimedia-amd64-k8 SMP preempt mod_unload gcc-4.1' should be 
'2.6.17-2-multimedia-amd64-k8 preempt mod_unload gcc-4.1'". Maybe there 
have been packaged the wrong modules for the right package?

Greetings
Mitsch