Debian Lenny 64 AMD to Debian Squeeze 64 AMD
update
I decided to upgrade my Debian to Squeeze on my Thinkpad R61
because I was not happy with the software prebundled with Debian
Lenny 5 is already one year behind the recent versions available in
unstable.
The update wasn't anything special as a procedure. I've googled
around to find a tutorial or somebody else experience on the topic
and I stumbled upon
The following upgrade instructions . I've followed literally
the steps described there.
1. aptitude update
2. aptitude install apt dpkg aptitude
3. aptitude full-upgrade
After that I had to confirm a couple of times that I do agree the
selected packages for upgrade to proceed. After the packages were
downloaded and installed, I was required to decide if I want to
keep some of the old custom configuration files I've edited or
accept the package maintainer version. This was the hardest part of
the upgrade since I have to check file by file what custom settings
have I set in a numerous conf files. After some time when all that
was over. I had to execute again
4. aptitude full-upgade, one more or times until no more packages
were left for upgrade.
. Then I executed,
5. apt-get update && apt-get upgrade and upgraded even some
more packages :). After that I had fully functional update. Debian
Unstable Squeeze/Sid prooved to run correctly, it comes with kernel
2.6.30, Gnome 2.6.26.1. Right after I did login into my Gnome
Profile, an error message poped-up. I did a quick check in Google
about the problem just to find
The following Bug Report . The
gnome-settings-daemon package that was problematic is 2.6.24 just
to compare the rest of the gnome package versions are 2.6.26. The
suggested solution to the problem was to install
gnome-setting-daemon from Debian Unstable or simply ignore the
error message, since the message showed up and seemed not to have
any impact on the gnome operation. Many things changed there
behaviour like keyboard settings and the way the system works. That
irritated me a lot. My video players (mplayer, vlc) subtitles in
cyrillic (cp1251) aren't showing correctly as well. I have to note
here that my default language settings are on a purpose set to
en_US.UTF-8. I'm still looking for a permanent solution to the
problem. I've discovered that if I do
set: # export LANG=bg_BG.CP1251 to my gnome-terminal and then
execute the players the cyrillic show up correctly. I've tried
various things and configurations in both mplayer and vlc. My
current mplayer.conf settings are:
zoom=1
subfont-encoding=unicode
subcp=cp1251
subfont-autoscale=1
subfont-text-scale=3,60
subfont-osd-scale=6
font=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/arhangai/arhangai.ttf
framedrop=yes
slang=bg
alang=bg
This settings are reported to work by many people out there and
they really do if I export my LANG to bg_BG.CP1251, however with a
different LANG settings they fail to work :(.
Right after the upgrade I was also experiencing warnings during
boot, proclaiming messages like:
WARNING: All config files need .conf:
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
. To get rid of this annoying messages I had to enter
/etc/modprobe.d/ and assure myself that all file names possess the
extension .conf.
To sum up I was quite disappointed of my stupid idea to upgrade my
debian distro to unstable. I would probably not upgrade it if I was
aware of the consequences ...