[CLUE-Tech] Failure when upgrading Debian 2.1 to 2.2
John Kottal
jlkottal at americanisp.net
Wed Nov 15 18:13:56 MST 2000
In attempting to use "apt-get dist-upgrade" today to upgrade from Debian
2.1 to 2.2, it failed with the following messages on the screen:
Setting up pdksh(5.2.14-1)
Setting up perl-5.004-doc (5.004.05-6)
Setting up perl-5.004-suid (5.004.05-6)
Setting up rsh-client (0.10-7)
Setting up libstdc++2.10-dev (2.95.2-13)
Setting up g++ (2.95.2-13)
Errors were encountered while processing:
cron
exim
at
mailx
elm-me+
E: Sub-process returned an error code
dbtest:/usr/src#
So what do I do now? I have left the machine running and will not do
anything to it until I can get help.
Other related questions:
1. Where did Debian download the 67 MB of files that it said it needed
to update?
2. Where can I find the messages that it generated while upgrading?
3. The kernel currently running is 2.0.36, and there are no source
files in the /usr/src directory for the 2.2 kernel. Can I assume that
the installation program simply had not gotten to upgrading the kernel
yet? If so, at what point will it do this, and
4. since I am booting off a boot disk, will I have a chance to make
another one for the 2.2 kernel before rebooting the system?
Thanx.
John Kottal
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