[ale] Slackware 12.0 installation scripts

[Boris Borisov]

What about backup first. Do you have a lot of customisation of the slack.

On Monday, October 6, 2014, David S Jackson <deepbsd.ale at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a pet Slackware box (athlon 3.6 now) that I've been nursing along
> recently. It was last upgraded in 2005 (Slack 10.0 I think).  I've had
> to replace/rebuild a bunch of things, but finally (up through Slack
> 11.0), I was making the jump from Slack 11.0 to Slack 12.0, which was
> the first 2.6 kernel, pretty big xorg change, etc etc.  And I had a
> problem.  The /usr partition filled up sometime during the installation
> (old 80G drive, 9G /usr partition).
>
> I don't really know at what point the partition filled up, but the
> installation scripts just kept chugging away like nothing was wrong.
> Kinda weird.   (I was checking on another tty.)  I know I had gotten
> through the first few directories, so we might have been into the x and
> xap series, perhaps.  But I had rebooted a new 2.6.18 smp huge kernel
> prior to this part of the upgrade, so at least that was working.
>
> So I fixed the /usr problem (housekeeping in /usr/local).  I fixed the
> *.new scripts in /etc.  But now I don't know how to check for what's
> still broke and what ain't before the reboot.  And I'd like to see what
> didn't install and what did.  I reran the upgradepkg --install-new
> scripts and they didn't find anything not installed.  But I question
> them.  Those scripts apparently weren't smart enough to stop when they
> were installing onto a full /usr partition, so how can I trust them to
> know whether they were successful or not?  Can a package appear to be
> installed in /var/log/packages yet not really be completely installed
> properly on a Slackware box?  I'd like to know before I reboot.  :-)
>
> For all you Slackware guru's and others,, what's the best way to
> approach this problem?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Dave
>
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