upgrade problems

[Steve Holmes]

A couple weeks ago, I ran into all kinds of problems with modules and
unresolved symbols and such.  This happened with every possible
comvination of speakup-enabled bootdisks and self-compiled kernels
module loads from Deb 3.0 CD's both 2.2 and 2.4.18.  I got through the
basic install but none of my modules would load so I had no network
access.  Since I could never resolve the unresolved symbols at
modprobe time, I gave up on Debian and put slackware 8.1 and had
things up and running within a couple hours.  Of course I have
experience with slackware previous versions so that was probably a
good help.  But I really wanted to give a good hard look at debian due
to its package selections and the upgrade facilities it has to offer.

On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 05:06:42PM +0000, igueths at attbi.com wrote:
> Hi all. I upgraded to Woody about three days ago, and 
> have since been experiencing many problems. In my 
> opinion, the thing's not even close to being ready for 
> stable distribution (unlike potato). Is anyone currently 
> experiencing problems with modutils, where modprobe 
> says "invalid line 81 in modules.conf?" Considering the 
> fact that nothing has been changed in modules.conf for a 
> considerably long time, because I have always been 
> loading my modules manually via scripts. Also has anyone 
> experienced a status 10 in fetchmail because connection 
> to localhost failed? The most probable cause for this is 
> an early termination by exim (This was in my syslog 
> output). Another thing that has been happening to me is 
> that whenever I download a file in Lynx, and go back to 
> the previous page, Dectalk seases responding to 
> keystrokes. This means that possibly setserial is 
> attempting to change port configuration and preventing 
> data from being passed to the serial device (the Dectalk 
> express). Also at boot time, when I am trying to review 
> the screen with the 5 and 6 keys on the numpad, they 
> don't work when the hd is being probed for example. They 
> only work starting at the login prompt. To fix this 
> problem, I am going to get the keymap that I was using 
> in potato and revert back to it. In terms of the 
> problems with the packages, I am going to replace the 
> Woody version with the potato version of setserial, and 
> possibly getting the latest version of Exim. Or if that 
> doesn't work, I'm going to use the Potato version. And 
> in terms of modutils, its going to have to get scrapped 
> for the earlier version as well. So far, I know of one 
> person who has or is experiencing the problems mentioned 
> above. Is there anyone else? I am considering submitting 
> a series of bug reports when this whole thing gets 
> resolved (if nobody else has done so already). Thanks in 
> advance for any input!
> 
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