Is it safe to upgrade baselayout yet?

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Last time I upgraded, I had this problem: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-361848-highlight-.html

I'm not sure whether to risk it again, so I am just wondering if many other people have experienced problems with their baselayout? Is it safe to upgrade yet?
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Master Shake · Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 2:04 pm Post subject:

Yes I have done it. Just make sure that you do an etc-update afterwards.
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DAharon · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jun 2004 Posts: 155

I was in the same boat as you. I upgraded baselayout last time, then did a etc-update -5. Big mistake. I just upgraded to the latest baseyaout yesterday. My advice: look through all the changes it makes before/if you replace the new with the old.

On my machine it wanted to remove everything from /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6, etc.
You have to make sure you catch that and prevent it from happening.
Also there will be some files that you have never edited before and maybe don't even know what their purpose is. But take a quick look at what is changing in them anyway.

DaNIsH · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 7:16 am Post subject:

I have done it, it actually boots now.. sort of.

Problems:
- Error about being unable to write /etc/modprobe.conf (I think it's trying to write to it before the filesystem has been mounted for writing).
- Error about being able to create a lock file /etc/mtab (Same as above)
- It sits for a few minutes on Clearing /tmp.

Other than that all's well.
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nunogt · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 4:37 pm Post subject:

ecatmur · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 6:08 pm Post subject:

Try running modules-update.
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nunogt · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 1:39 pm Post subject:

Same here. The problem still occurs.

ecatmur · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 3:24 pm Post subject:

Can you post the output?
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ecatmur · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 4:40 pm Post subject:

Try modules-update --verbose.
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pavkb · Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 6:04 pm Post subject:

Recently i upgraded my portage to 2.1_pre3-r1 ( an ~amd64).

Now when i did a emerge -uDN world. It asked to upgrade the baselayout & i did.
Then did etc-update & looked throught & didn't see anything obvious so did -5.

What got emerge'd

dundas · Guru Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Posts: 317 Location: China, Earth

Dear all

I think my prob here about couldn't generate modprob.conf might be irrelevant and non-critical for this name's name: safe to upgrade baselayout, so I'll start up another thread asking specifically

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-425693.html

about the modprobe.conf prob

hope this clears out this thread and help the other related critical problems being solved here.
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