Package: upgrade-reports
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My previous release is: wheezy
I am upgrading to: jessie
Archive date: 2015-04-04
Upgrade date: 2015-04-04, ~14:30 CEST
uname -a before/after upgrade: Linux [redacted] 3.14.17 #1 SMP Sun Aug 17 12:03:04 CEST 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Method: replaced wheezy with jessie in sources.list;
apt-get update && apt-get install sysvinit-core && apt-get dist-upgrade
(I installed sysvinit-core to stay with sysv init)
Contents of /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://debian.n-ix.net/debian jessie main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
The upgraded system is a Xen-based vserver (guest), where the kernel is provided
and can't be exchanged.
This was also the reason for the only issue I had while upgrading: udev
has a new udev.preinst script, which checks the installed kernel versions.
There was still an unused kernel package installed from an old squeeze installation
(linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64), but the running kernel has actually been 3.14.17 for
a long time.
The preinst script didn't detect a recent enough kernel and failed, which was
a little scary at first (as it is a vserver I didn't want to reboot until I
was sure about the situation). But after I had a look at the script, I assumed
that the currently running kernel has to be recent enough and that the running kernel
version just wasn't taken into account.
After forcing the installation as told (touch /etc/udev/kernel-upgrade), the upgrade
was successful and it booted without problems.
Another minor problem I noticed after the upgrade was that some vhosts of apache2
weren't running as expected. But after a look into apache2/NEWS.Debian.gz those
problems were easy to resolve.
In summary I think the upgrade went quite smooth. :-)
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