Comment 9 for bug 20313

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 08:53:56AM -0400, Rob Warren wrote:

> It's dead jim.

> I'm running stable to present this kind of thing. :(

I'm afraid that sarge received very little upgrade testing from the ARM
community prior to release, apparently because the number of arm boxes that
could even *run* a stock woody system was a very small fraction of the
overall install base. This is so far the second crippling upgrade bug on
arm that's come to light since the release, the other being bug #312936 and
for which I've received *no* feedback from the ARM porter community.

If we can identify a minimum kernel version that should be used with sarge
on arm, and handle that in the preinst, I'm sure the stable release manager
would allow a point release update for this bug in order to spare others the
pain you've gone through here in uncovering this bug.

I'm pretty confident that if you are able to get a 2.4.27 kernel installed
and running on this machine you shouldn't have any problems with stable
itself, but I realize that's small comfort given your current situation.

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