Bug#398924: Conflict between Gnome, udev, hotplug and linux-2.4

[Robert Millan]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 04:41:53PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 06:05:54PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 06:43:07PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> > 
> > > Upgrading kernel first would fix this problem, but I'm not confident to tell
> > > if that wouldn't bring other -perhaps worse- problems.
> > 
> > Well, I guess one benefit is that if you install the kernel first, the
> > window between hotplug being removed and the new kernel being configured
> > *should* be reduced.  If you don't upgrade the kernel first, there's a
> > possibility that some other package (such as gnome, but there are many
> > others) will pull udev in and kick hotplug out early in the upgrade, perhaps
> > even in a completely separate apt run from the kernel upgrade.
> 
> Sounds good.  I'll try it this evening and see what happens.

Attempting to install linux-image-2.6.17-* from etch on a sarge system results
in apt wanting to remove gnome altogether.  Unfortunately I don't know how to
debug this, because the method I'd normaly use (telling apt to explicitly
install the offending package as well as linux-image-2.6.17-*) tells apt to
grab the other packages from etch, which _does_ work when enough of these
packages are explicitly added.  But then I'm in fact upgrading gnome which is
not what I want.

Any suggestion?

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