[TriLUG] Re: Upgrading to Fiesty

[tomed at bellsouth.net]

Are any of you having problems with upgrading libpg4 (postgres) to libpg5?
Some sort of issue with the Feisty deb is preventing my dist upgrade.

Thanks,
Tom Ed

At Tue, 01 May 2007 12:27:12 -0400,
Jim Tuttle wrote:
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> > Message: 5
> > Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:57:01 -0400
> > From: Brian McCullough <bdmc at bdmcc-us.com>
> > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Upgrading to Fiesty
> > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>
> > Message-ID: <20070430185701.GA30194 at bdmcc-us.com>
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> > On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 02:23:35PM -0400, Scott Chilcote wrote:
> >> Hi Folks,
> >>
> >> I have two machines to upgrade from Dapper to Feisty, one notebook and 
> >> one desktop.
> >>
> >> The more attractive route would be to do an upgrade to edgy and another 
> >> upgrade to feisty, but what I've found online suggests this has 
> >> problems.  I've had my share of problematic upgrades, but if the chance 
> >> of it working is essentially zero I'll bite the bullet and do a clean 
> >> install.
> > 
> > Scott,
> > 
> > I have just gone ( am just going ) through this process myself.  I found
> > that my Feisty install CD was just a coaster, so I installed from the
> > good Dapper disk that I had, confirmed that it worked, and continued.  I
> > am working on a clean machine, so my results may be suspect.  For some
> > reason, the 6.06 Upgrade Manager did not offer Edgy as an upgrade
> > option, so I went with the "Manual" upgrade process offered on the
> > website.
> > 
> > I changed all of the references from "dapper" to "edgy" in the
> > sources.list file and did "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade".
> > Actually, I did them as seperate commands and repeated the dist-upgrade
> > just to check, but I seemed to wind up with a working Edgy system.
> > 
> > Upgrade Manager then offered me Feisty as an "Automatic" upgrade, so I
> > went with it.  When I last looked at that system, it was nearing the end
> > of the unpacking/upgrading phase, with no apparent errors, so I am
> > expecting the best.
> > 
> > I will let you know more as soon as I know, but that may not be until
> > tomorrow.
> > 
> > 
> > Brian
> 
> 
> I just upgraded 5 machines, 3 desktops and 2 laptops.  4 went off
> without a hitch and 2 of those have been dist-upgraded in-place through
> several versions.  The one that didn't was really odd and I suspect the
> drive was having read errors or something.  No big deal, though.  I
> reinstalled option to format all partition except /home.  I foolishly
> forgot to save the /etc files, but was able to crib what I needed from
> the other machines since they all use the same iptables script, host
> files, etc.
> 
> I did need the alternate install disk for one machine due, I guess, to
> sata drivers or something.  I'd try the simplest thing first and make a
> backup first.
> 
> Jim
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