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Re: Cannot upgrade circular udev dependency

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On 2/16/22 9:03 AM, Andy Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 07:19:34AM -0800, David Liontooth wrote:
>> Hi -- I have a machine, Linux ancient 2.6.36.2 #1 SMP Sun Dec 26 06:19:57
>> PST 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux.
> […]
>
>> Since release 198, udev requires support for the following features in
>> the running kernel:
>>
>> - inotify(2)            (CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER)
>> - signalfd(2)           (CONFIG_SIGNALFD)
>> - accept4(2)
>> - open_by_handle_at(2)  (CONFIG_FHANDLE)
>> - timerfd_create(2)     (CONFIG_TIMERFD)
>> - epoll_create(2)       (CONFIG_EPOLL)
>> dpkg: error processing archive
>> /var/cache/apt/archives/udev_232-25+deb9u13_amd64.deb (--unpack):
>>   subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
>> update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported;
>> falling back to defaults
>> update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported;
>> falling back to defaults
>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>>   /var/cache/apt/archives/udev_232-25+deb9u13_amd64.deb
>> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> […]
>
>> There are clearly lots of barriers put in to keep people from making
>> mistakes, but it's also keeping me from upgrading. Is there a solution?
> To have ended up trying to run Debian stretch software on a 2.6.32
> kernel you have made some pretty extreme decisions far outside what
> Debian supports.
>
> You have got to get onto a more modern kernel so you can upgrade
> udev. If you somehow force udev to get installed while still running
> that 2.6.32 kernel you will be in a world of pain because it just
> won't work and you very likely won't complete another boot.
>
> You haven't elaborated as to why any of the newer kernels you have
> installed won't boot.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy

Thanks, Andy. I didn't have physical access to the machine, so I didn't 
know why the kernels didn't boot. But I revered to jesse in sources.list 
and was able to install a new kernel, which is now booting fine. So in 
spite of my extreme decisions, Debian handled the upgrade well.

Dave

>

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Cannot upgrade circular udev dependency David Liontooth <ffsteen@gmail.com> - 2022-02-16 16:40 +0100
  Re: Cannot upgrade circular udev dependency Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-02-16 17:10 +0100
    Re: Cannot upgrade circular udev dependency David Liontooth <ffsteen@gmail.com> - 2022-02-16 17:50 +0100
      Re: Cannot upgrade circular udev dependency Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-02-16 18:50 +0100
        Re: Cannot upgrade circular udev dependency David Liontooth <ffsteen@gmail.com> - 2022-02-17 20:30 +0100
  Re: Cannot upgrade circular udev dependency Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2022-02-16 18:30 +0100
    Re: Cannot upgrade circular udev dependency David Liontooth <ffsteen@gmail.com> - 2022-02-17 20:30 +0100

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