Comments on: How to upgrade Debian Etch to Lenny http://www.monkeedev.co.uk/blog/2009/03/21/how-to-upgrade-debian-etch-to-lenny/ Surviving life as a sysadmin. Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:24:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kris http://www.monkeedev.co.uk/blog/2009/03/21/how-to-upgrade-debian-etch-to-lenny/comment-page-1/#comment-275 Kris Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:18:02 +0000 http://www.monkeedev.co.uk/blog/?p=83#comment-275 The most recent upgrades I've done have errored with the following: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/mount_2.13.1.1-1_amd64.deb (--unpack): at the dist-upgrade stage. I've found that the way around it is to unmount any nfs and samba mounts (or any non local drives), and do 'aptitude dist-upgrade' again. The most recent upgrades I’ve done have errored with the following:

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/mount_2.13.1.1-1_amd64.deb (–unpack):

at the dist-upgrade stage.

I’ve found that the way around it is to unmount any nfs and samba mounts (or any non local drives), and do ‘aptitude dist-upgrade’ again.

]]> By: Kris http://www.monkeedev.co.uk/blog/2009/03/21/how-to-upgrade-debian-etch-to-lenny/comment-page-1/#comment-139 Kris Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:02:54 +0000 http://www.monkeedev.co.uk/blog/?p=83#comment-139 The official upgrade documentation can be found here: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html The official upgrade documentation can be found here:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html

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