<p dir="ltr">Now you have to go the next version in that order</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 8, 2014 8:15 PM, "David S Jackson" <<a href="mailto:deepbsd.ale@gmail.com">deepbsd.ale@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Okay, just to close this out...<br>
<br>
I wrote a script to go into the slackware/ directories and test<br>
installation targets on the target box. If the install crapped out then<br>
the target file has a zero length. This script basically told me where<br>
the install ran out of space. After clearing more space, I restarted<br>
the install with<br>
<br>
upgradepkg --reinstall --install-new /packages/slackware/$f/*.tgz<br>
<br>
where $f is the last good directory in a list of subsequent pkg<br>
directories.<br>
<br>
It worked out and that box is now purring along on Slack 12, awaiting<br>
the next upgrade.<br>
<br>
I will note that /sbin/ldconfig was complaining all over the place about<br>
broken libraries. This was confusing me, but as soon as the reinstall<br>
did its work, those warnings went away.<br>
<br>
Okay, that's it. Thanks for your time!<br>
<br>
Dave<br>
<br>
<br>
On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 15:13 -0400, Boris Borisov wrote:<br>
> What about backup first. Do you have a lot of customisation of the<br>
> slack.<br>
><br>
> On Monday, October 6, 2014, David S Jackson <<a href="mailto:deepbsd.ale@gmail.com">deepbsd.ale@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> I have a pet Slackware box (athlon 3.6 now) that I've been<br>
> nursing along<br>
> recently. It was last upgraded in 2005 (Slack 10.0 I think).<br>
> I've had<br>
> to replace/rebuild a bunch of things, but finally (up through<br>
> Slack<br>
> 11.0), I was making the jump from Slack 11.0 to Slack 12.0,<br>
> which was<br>
> the first 2.6 kernel, pretty big xorg change, etc etc. And I<br>
> had a<br>
> problem. The /usr partition filled up sometime during the<br>
> installation<br>
> (old 80G drive, 9G /usr partition).<br>
><br>
> I don't really know at what point the partition filled up, but<br>
> the<br>
> installation scripts just kept chugging away like nothing was<br>
> wrong.<br>
> Kinda weird. (I was checking on another tty.) I know I had<br>
> gotten<br>
> through the first few directories, so we might have been into<br>
> the x and<br>
> xap series, perhaps. But I had rebooted a new 2.6.18 smp huge<br>
> kernel<br>
> prior to this part of the upgrade, so at least that was<br>
> working.<br>
><br>
> So I fixed the /usr problem (housekeeping in /usr/local). I<br>
> fixed the<br>
> *.new scripts in /etc. But now I don't know how to check for<br>
> what's<br>
> still broke and what ain't before the reboot. And I'd like to<br>
> see what<br>
> didn't install and what did. I reran the upgradepkg<br>
> --install-new<br>
> scripts and they didn't find anything not installed. But I<br>
> question<br>
> them. Those scripts apparently weren't smart enough to stop<br>
> when they<br>
> were installing onto a full /usr partition, so how can I trust<br>
> them to<br>
> know whether they were successful or not? Can a package<br>
> appear to be<br>
> installed in /var/log/packages yet not really be completely<br>
> installed<br>
> properly on a Slackware box? I'd like to know before I<br>
> reboot. :-)<br>
><br>
> For all you Slackware guru's and others,, what's the best way<br>
> to<br>
> approach this problem?<br>
><br>
> Thanks in advance!<br>
><br>
> Dave<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
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