My upgrade from etch to lenny wont work!

[onemind]

Hello,

I have followed all the instructions for upgrading.

I have changed my sources.list from etch to lenny - stable to testing

I have apt-get update which downloaded about 5mb worth of stuff.

I then put in apt-get dist-upgrade and nothing happens.

It spits out:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

And that us it.

I left out dist and just typed in apt-get upgrade and it did the same thing.

It doesnt want to upgrade.

I changed my mirrors and it didnt help.

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Execute this :

cat /etc/debian_version

Post output here.

[onemind]

4.0

Here is my sources.list

#security
deb Debian -- Security Information lenny/updates main contrib

#updates
deb ftp://ftp.iinet.net.au/debian/debian testing main contrib non-free

-----------------

Here is the output from "aptitude dist-upgrade"


Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
libqt4-core libqt4-gui libqt4-qt3support libqt4-sql libsqlite0
qt4-qtconfig
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 6 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 18.6MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n

[devils casper]

Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n

Press y and let aptitude install/remove packages. Check the contents of /etc/debian_version file. Is it listing Lenny?

[onemind]

Check the contents of /etc/debian_version file. Is it listing Lenny?

It just says: 4.0

[devils casper]

Its listing lenny/sid in my box.
Try replacing lenny with testing in sources.list file.
My sources.list :

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org testing/updates main contrib non-free

[onemind]

Its listing lenny/sid in my box.

And? I am running etch.

Try replacing lenny with testing in sources.list file.

That does nothing. lenny and testing have the same files on the server.

[coopstah13]

thats weird, you should only need to change etch/stable to lenny or testing and then run, only sid would be different, since there are no security updates for sid

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

that should be enough, try running

apt-get clean

maybe some cached files are causing some problems, you never know

[onemind]

Thanks

Tried that, didnt work..

[onemind]

Thanks all.

It turned out to be the preferences file in /etc/apt

I deleted it and it is now working

Cheers