gpg: Signature made Sun Jan 31 14:23:38 2010 UTC using DSA key ID BF15490B
gpg: Good signature from "Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net>"
gpg: aka "Andrew James Smith <andy@strugglers.net>"
gpg: aka "Andy Smith (UKUUG) <andy.smith@ukuug.org>"
gpg: aka "Andy Smith (BitFolk Ltd.) <andy@bitfolk.com>"
gpg: aka "Andy Smith (Linux User Groups UK) <andy@lug.org.uk>"
gpg: aka "Andy Smith (Cernio Technology Cooperative) <andy.smith@cernio.com>"
Hi,
If you're running Debian testing (squeeze) then you may have noticed
complaints from the install scripts of udev saying that your kernel
still has CONFIG_DEPRECATED_SYSFS enabled and you need to turn it
off before upgrading udev.
Don't force udev to be upgraded if this happens to you. It *will*
result in an unbootable system.
You can instead switch to the upstream kernel package which now has
support for running under Xen. The package you want is
linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686-bigmem.
Before booting though, check some other things. Firstly, be sure
that you haven't upgraded to grub 2 (the current version of the
grub-pc package in testing is grub 2). The config format is not yet
supported by pygrub which BitFolk uses, so you would end up getting
the old kernel list from your /boot/grub/menu.lst. Instead make
sure you have grub-legacy for now. Run "update-grub" to see which
kernels it finds.
Next, the upstream kernels don't need the clocksource=jiffies kernel
command line any more either. In fact it can make things break. So
check in your menu.lst that that isn't there. Do an update-grub if
you changed anything.
After booting into 2.6.32-trunk-686-bigmem you can safely upgrade
udev.
Cheers,
Andy
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