hoary -> breezy (2005-09-08 daily) upgrade

[Michael Vogt]

On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 08:40:06AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Yesterday, I did have the opportunity to upgrade a hoary installation,
> which I didn't install myself, so knowing anything about the state of
> the system. Inserting the install CD, starting the upgrade:

Did you do click on "automatic upgrade" on the dialog that opened
after inserting the cd?
 
> - libc6 question asking about restarting services. That question
>   appears in the "Details window" only. No Gtk popup.

libc6 is not using debconf for asking it's question, so there is no
way to detect it from synaptic. Newer versions of synaptic have a
terminal timeout of 60 secs (no action for 60 sec will automatically
exapnd the terminal tab). But the version in hoary does not have that :/

[..]
> - Near the end / at the end the update program did crash/quit/terminate?
>   No message that it did finish correctly. Calling a dpkg --configure
>   --pending revealed nothing to be done, so it looked all went ok.

I opened a bug about the problem
http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14998

The problem seems to be that the upgrade triggers a gtk bug that is
fixed in gtk-2.8 but present in gtk 2.6 (gnome bugzilla #300549). I
backported the patch and and attached it to the bugreport. It fixed
the crash problem for my test-run at least.

The problem of course is how to apply this fix _before_ the upgrade to
the installed hoary system :/

Cheers,
 Michael

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