[bitfolk] Debian testing (squeeze) issues with udev, grub, clocksource

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 -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting