UP4

[twa]

Hi,
MU says that there are 1182 recommended updates, but got following bugs warnings, so I aborted the update:

Recupero delle segnalazioni di bug... Fatto
Analisi delle informazioni... Fatto
Bug grave di file (5.04-5+b1 -> 5.10-1) <marcato come risolto in qualche versione>
#664263 - libmagic1: DSA 2422-1 fix is missing (Corretto: 5.11-1)
Bug serious di apt (0.8.15.6 -> 0.8.15.10) <marcato come risolto in qualche versione>
#657560 - apt-get errors out when unable to uncompress a Translation-fr.bz2 file due to missing bzip2 (Corretto: apt/0.8.16~exp13)
Bug serious di mawk (1.3.3-15 -> 1.3.3-16) <marcato come risolto in qualche versione>
#665383 - Source and destination overlap in memcpy (Corretto: mawk/1.3.3-17)
Bug critical di libmysqlclient16 (5.1.58-1 -> 5.1.61-2) <non risolto>
#663438 - libmysqlclient: missing symbols __aeabi_d2lz (on armel)
Bug grave di libcairo2 (1.10.2-6.1 -> 1.10.2-7) <non risolto>
#657097 - libcairo2: Evolution crash at startup (core dumped)
#658252 - libcairo2: Text quickly becomes rectangles
Unito con: 667040
Bug grave di libvorbis0a (1.3.2-1 -> 1.3.2-1.1) <non risolto>
#664197 - libvorbis0a: DSA 2412-1 fix is missing
Bug serious di libsasl2-2 (2.1.24~rc1.dfsg1+cvs2011-05-23-4 -> 2.1.25.dfsg1-4) <non risolto>
#665476 - libsasl2-2 - ABI change without changing ABI name
Bug serious di libxcb1 (1.7-3 -> 1.8-2) <non risolto>
#657538 - libxcb1: breaks alsamixer
Bug serious di manpages-dev (3.32-0.2 -> 3.35-0.1) <non risolto>
#661402 - manpages-dev: removal of manpages-dev makes files disappear from libaio-dev
Bug serious di gnome-session-canberra (0.28-1 -> 0.28-3) <non risolto>
#667002 - Failed to play sound: File or data not found
Bug serious di dash (0.5.5.1-7.4 -> 0.5.7-3) <non risolto>
#582952 - dash / LINENO-support lets many package FTBFS (Corretto: dash/0.5.5.1-6 dash/0.5.5.1-7 dash/0.5.7-1)
Bug serious di libtelepathy-glib0 (0.15.5-1 -> 0.16.2-1+b1) <non risolto>
#661484 - libtelepathy-glib0: .xsession-errors TelepathyGlib error messages saying invalid argument passed
Riepilogo:
libcairo2(2 bugs), libsasl2-2(1 bug), libxcb1(1 bug), manpages-dev(1 bug), apt(1 bug), gnome-session-canberra(1 bug), dash(1 bug), libtelepathy-glib0(1 bug), libvorbis0a(1 bug), libmysqlclient16(1 bug), mawk(1 bug), file(1 bug)
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[äxl]

Wow. How did you manage to get bug reports?

But I wouldn't give to much notice if you have the official repositories. http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1836
There are many bugs on everything. There wouldn't be a release if they would break your system.
http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi?release= ... =1&ctags=1

[GeneC]

Wow. How did you manage to get bug reports?
,,,,,,,,,,,,

apt-listbugs

Its in the repos.

Package: apt-listbugs (0.1.6)

tool which lists critical bugs before each apt installation

apt-listbugs is a tool which retrieves bug reports from the Debian Bug Tracking System and lists them. Especially, it is intended to be invoked before each upgrade/installation by apt in order to check whether the upgrade/installation is safe.

Many developers and users prefer the unstable version of Debian for its new features and packages. apt, the usual upgrade tool, can break your system by installing a buggy package.

apt-listbugs lists critical bug reports from the Debian Bug Tracking System. Run it before apt to see if an upgrade or installation is known to be unsafe.

http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/apt-listbugs

Code: Select all

gene@zordon:~$ apt-cache policy apt-listbugs
apt-listbugs:
  Installed: 0.1.6
  Candidate: 0.1.6
  Version table:
 *** 0.1.6 0
        500 http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[zerozero]

apt-listbugs can be a wonderful tool and can a real PITA
let's take this example

#663438 - libmysqlclient: missing symbols __aeabi_d2lz (on armel)

who is using armel here?
or the others that are

marcato come risolto in qualche versione

google translate says

marked as fixed in some version/any version

twa please help me here.

my point is, you should go to every bug report, read it carefully and decide if it affects (or not) your setup/your hardware/your install.

[GeneC]

apt-listbugs can be a wonderful tool and can a real PITA
.

zz

agreed...
9 out of 10 listed bugs are frequently not problems at all.
As you said. You have to check for your own system, and that can be a little tedious.

I will 'confess' to very often just upgrading anyway, disregarding the bug reports, and hope I things go well.

I only do this because I keep frequent Clonezilla backup 'clones'

[äxl]

I only do this because I keep frequent Clonezilla backup 'clones'

Then why listbugs anyway?

=== insert dd rsync advertising ===

[GeneC]

To learn, grasshopper...

[äxl]

To learn,

From bugs?

grasshopper...

What?

[twa]

Hi,

9 out of 10 listed bugs are frequently not problems at all.

well..removed the apt-listbugs and tried the UP4 update.
bad decision...after a while got black screen..no cursor, unable to exit.
had to force computer shut-down.
rebooted..grub is present but the sysm does not boot..even in recovery mode.
tried to reinstall / using the 2012 rc ISO but installation stops at approx 90%.
again unable to exit and forced to power-off.
re-tried 3 more times, same results.
have now installed Solusos (very good), awaiting for the new LMDE iso with UP4.