Bug#909643: closed by Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> (Re: doing a dist-upgrade from debian7 to debian8 ended with a non bootable system)

From	Stephane Tranchemer <stephane.tranchemer@asahinet.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#909643: closed by Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> (Re: doing a dist-upgrade from debian7 to debian8 ended with a non bootable system)
Date	2019-02-04 02:50 +0100
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Hi,
You are right Ben, this was the culprit.

The bottom line is, in a previous version of the debian distribution the
busybox package was called "busybox-cvs-static".

But at a time it just gone to "busybox-static", so when doing the normal
procedure of
apt-update
apt-upgrade
apt-distupgrade

it is not replaced by the newer version...

Quite a nasty pitfall.

Thanks for your time.


> The screenshot shows:
>
> "busybox 20040623-1"
>
> You have an ancient version of busybox installed and you must upgrade
> it.
>
> Ben.
>
> --
> Ben Hutchings
> Horngren's Observation:
>               Among economists, the real world is often a special case.
>
>
>

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Bug#909643: closed by Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> (Re: doing a dist-upgrade from debian7 to debian8 ended with a non bootable system) Stephane Tranchemer <stephane.tranchemer@asahinet.com> - 2019-02-04 02:50 +0100
  Bug#909643: closed by Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> (Re: doing a dist-upgrade from debian7 to debian8 ended with a non bootable system) Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2019-02-04 07:50 +0100

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