[wellylug] Debian Sarge Freezing on boot.

[David Antliff]

Enkidu wrote:

> No, but isn't dist-upgrade pretty ruthless? Deletes old packages
> without prompting, that sort of thing? I did a dist-upgrade of Gnome
> which totally poked anything graphical for some reason. These days I
> don't use dist-upgrade.

It's not that bad - it'll tell you what it's going to do, especially if
you use the -u option (--show-upgraded). If you install the
apt-listchanges package, it will also show you all relevant changelog
entries after download, before prompting you to continue and install.

David.