When Good Devuan Goes Bad
I thought today might be a good time to upgrade my Devuan Chimeara desktop to Daedalus, so I could check-out all the latest and greatest. Big mistake.
In the upgrade I followed the release-upgrade procedures to the letter - they are not complicated. I got about 3/4 done and the upgrade freezes. Shit, I’m sunk. I try rebooting the machine - kernel panic. I am sunk.
OK, no personal panic, I have up-to-date user backups afterall… So, I go to the Devuan website and grab the “live” desktop install. I repartition my harddisk (just in case) and go through the entire install accepting the default choices - while paying attention that they seem correct. Everything goes very smoothly. No problem. So, Install accomplished I reboot the machine… and Grub seems to have lost its installed location. It shows a “Cannot find” error. Two sinkages in one day!
So, I am right now reinstalling Chimeara, which I know will work.
I have looked on line and it seems that many people are having trouble installing Daedalus, for a number of reasons. I don’t know why they would replace something which worked reliably with something which often does not work at all… I sure hope that Devuan goes back to what they were doing for installation before.