Bye sidux - welcome aptosid!

September 14th, 2010

I just dist-upgraded to aptosid, sidux is gone.

Yesterday the sidux team announced that sidux is dead, but the good news just followed:

As I am sure you are all aware, there have been interesting times for sidux recently. The bad news is that the sidux project is dead. The good news is that aptosid has been aptly born like a phoenix from the ashes and will provide a smooth upgrade for sidux systems. In many ways nothing has changed but our name.

After a long period of silence I already change the OS on my notebook from sidux to grml. It’s a very good alternative, but I decided to wait for an official announcement before deleting my main OS.

Now, the official announce is released, I upgraded my system to aptosid. First of all I created a aptosid.list in my /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ containing:

deb http://debian.tu-bs.de/project/aptosid/debian/ sid main fix.main contrib fix.contrib non-free fix.non-free vdr
deb-src http://debian.tu-bs.de/project/aptosid/debian/ sid main fix.main contrib fix.contrib non-free fix.non-free vdr

deb ftp://ftp.spline.de/pub/aptosid/debian/ sid main fix.main contrib fix.contrib non-free fix.non-free vdr
deb-src ftp://ftp.spline.de/pub/aptosid/debian/ sid main fix.main contrib fix.contrib non-free fix.non-free vdr

After wards calling aptitude update to reread the package listings. It notifies me that the new servers couldn’t be verified, I had to install the new keyring:

aptitude install aptosid-archive-keyring

It’s time to upgrade:

aptitude update
aptitude dist-upgrade

That fails at the first time:

Running update-initramfs.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-4.slh.9-aptosid-amd64
initrd.img(/boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-4.slh.9-aptosid-amd64
) points to /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-4.slh.9-aptosid-amd64
 (/boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-4.slh.9-aptosid-amd64) -- doing nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.35-4.slh.9-aptosid-amd64.postinst line 348.
vmlinuz(/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-4.slh.9-aptosid-amd64
) points to /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-4.slh.9-aptosid-amd64
 (/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-4.slh.9-aptosid-amd64) -- doing nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.35-4.slh.9-aptosid-amd64.postinst line 348.
Running /usr/sbin/update-grub.
Can't exec "/usr/sbin/update-grub": No such file or directory at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.35-4.slh.9-aptosid-amd64.postinst line 770.
User postinst hook script [/usr/sbin/update-grub] failed to execute: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.35-4.slh.9-aptosid-amd64 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255

As you see, /usr/sbin/update-grub wasn’t found. It is in grub-pc , but I have no idea why there isn’t a dependency so that grub-pc is installed by default!? Not fine but doesn’t matter, just install it:

aptitude install grub-pc
aptitude dist-upgrade

If this is done, just reboot and join the new kernel version 2.6.35 (slh is the greatest!!).

~ % uname -r
2.6.35-4.slh.9-aptosid-amd64

Martin Scharm

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