What about backup first. Do you have a lot of customisation of the slack.<br><br>On Monday, October 6, 2014, David S Jackson <<a href="mailto:deepbsd.ale@gmail.com">deepbsd.ale@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
I have a pet Slackware box (athlon 3.6 now) that I've been nursing along<br>
recently. It was last upgraded in 2005 (Slack 10.0 I think). I've had<br>
to replace/rebuild a bunch of things, but finally (up through Slack<br>
11.0), I was making the jump from Slack 11.0 to Slack 12.0, which was<br>
the first 2.6 kernel, pretty big xorg change, etc etc. And I had a<br>
problem. The /usr partition filled up sometime during the installation<br>
(old 80G drive, 9G /usr partition).<br>
<br>
I don't really know at what point the partition filled up, but the<br>
installation scripts just kept chugging away like nothing was wrong.<br>
Kinda weird. (I was checking on another tty.) I know I had gotten<br>
through the first few directories, so we might have been into the x and<br>
xap series, perhaps. But I had rebooted a new 2.6.18 smp huge kernel<br>
prior to this part of the upgrade, so at least that was working.<br>
<br>
So I fixed the /usr problem (housekeeping in /usr/local). I fixed the<br>
*.new scripts in /etc. But now I don't know how to check for what's<br>
still broke and what ain't before the reboot. And I'd like to see what<br>
didn't install and what did. I reran the upgradepkg --install-new<br>
scripts and they didn't find anything not installed. But I question<br>
them. Those scripts apparently weren't smart enough to stop when they<br>
were installing onto a full /usr partition, so how can I trust them to<br>
know whether they were successful or not? Can a package appear to be<br>
installed in /var/log/packages yet not really be completely installed<br>
properly on a Slackware box? I'd like to know before I reboot. :-)<br>
<br>
For all you Slackware guru's and others,, what's the best way to<br>
approach this problem?<br>
<br>
Thanks in advance!<br>
<br>
Dave<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
_______________________________________________<br>
Ale mailing list<br>
<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'Ale@ale.org')">Ale@ale.org</a><br>
<a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale" target="_blank">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>
See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br>
<a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo" target="_blank">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br>
</blockquote><br><br>-- <br>Sent from Gmail Mobile<br>