The Debian Project announces the release of Debian 4.0
Posted by Steve on Sun 8 Apr 2007 at 14:14
The Debian Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of their next stable release. Debian 4.0, codenamed Etch, was officially released today, after 21 months of constant development.
Significant Changes
Compared to the Sarge release of Debian GNU/Linux almost every single package has been updated, and many new packages have been introduced which weren't previously available.
There have been several significant upgrades of commonly used packages such as:
- The upgrade of PHP5.x
- The upgrade to MySQL 5.x
- The upgrade to Apache 2.2.x
- GCC v4.1 as the default compiler
- The transition from XFree86 to X.org v7.1
As well as these upgrades there are many notable new features and additions to the release:
- The availability of Xen.
- The availability of VServer.
- Support for the AMD-64 architecture.
- The availability if Tomcat 5.x.
- The availability of official Sun Java packages.
- Signature checking for APT, along with partial downloads.
- Fully integrated support for encrypted partitions from the installer.
- The translation of the installation system into 58 languages.
Upgrading
Before you upgrade to Etch please read the release notes, as they contain important information which will ease your upgrade.
The recommended update tool is aptitude, since this handles dependency updating better than apt-get.
Once you've updated your sources.list in /etc/apt you can upgrade from Sarge to Etch by running:
# apt-get update # apt-get install aptitude # aptitude -f --with-recommends dist-upgradeIn case of problems please consult the release notes before reporting a bug.
A big thank you to all the contributors, developers, bug reporters, testers, translators, and users.
I'm just downloading DVD ISO using torrent - http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/4.0_r0/i386/bt-dvd/debi an-40r0-i386-DVD-1.iso.torrent
right now 4-6 MB/s :)
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Great work to all those involved! :)
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Good luck when upgrading.
I've upgraded two desktop systems with only one circular dependency (SSH/kdessh) that was easy enough to fix. Just my home server to go and Sarge will be but a pleasant memory.
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"It's Not Magic, It's Work"
Adam
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Mysql, Apache, PHP upgrade went fairly smooth other than some minor bumps with modules.
Xorg doesn't work yet, but I will get to that later (I only use X occasionally for some development stuff).
All in all not too bad of a ride.
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W: Conflicting distribution: http://security.debian.org stable/updates Release (expected stable but got etch)Great! Big news! Thanks to all the Debian team (and the other people involved).
W: Vous pouvez lancer « apt-get update » pour corriger ces problèmes.
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It took me about 4 hours to get my nvidia drivers working. I sort of messed up with the nvidia-glx-legacy drivers. It did all the wrong things first.
Now how do I get compiz to work?
I've already done the following step:
apt-get install compiz
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I'm therefore rather reluctant to upgrade my kernel. Do I really need to?
And while I'm asking that, can anyone advise me on what problems I might face if I do upgrade by running "make oldconfig" on my new 2.6 kernel, using my 2.4 .config? Are there any other problems moving from 2.4 to 2.6 that I should look out for, like SATA drive paths?
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Then stop. Wait til you can get to the data centre. You have what - nine months to worry abou this?
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A couple of hours downtime wouldn't be a disaster for this machine, but equally I don't want to completely bugger it and find myself facing a chunky support bill, or a full reinstall and file restore at a particularly busy time of year.
I think I'm probably just going to leave it running Sarge, get a new box in about 6 months with a clean Etch install, and move the services over. I can then get the data center to wipe the drive on the old server and install Etch from scratch - two servers for the price of... err, yes.
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If it does boot fine with the 2.6 kernel, then upgrade to etch!
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get a test machine with *exactly* the same hardware and install and configure sarge with *exactly* the same settings as your actual server;
if that is not possible (I read on another post that this a hosted server is), then install a virtual sarge with *exactly* the same settings and test the upgrade of the kernel first, and to etch then. Document everything, test and retest. When you have it right, do it on the production box.
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since 4.0 is new stable should i replace my apt repositories if i need to updete 3.1 system ... and to what ?
coz when i today tryed to do apt-get udate & upgrade i got:
38 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 209 not upgraded.
but i suspect that this are not for my 3.1 ?
thanks
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after following the upgrade procedure step by step as stated in the release note, my webmin still recognize my system as Debian 3.1. Is it something webmin-related or is there something that I have to change manually so that it recognizes my system as Debian 4.0 ?
Thanks in advance
/Ben
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/Ben
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I also discovered I can't install Eclipse together with Azureus, it is one or the other. This was one of those bugs said to be fixed but it wasn't.
And for Qemu I had to create the mknod the kqemu before it worked. Anyways that worked perfectly.
Also the Alacarte editor, I can't seem to view the properties of the already created menu item. It just doesn't do anything, but adding menu items is not problem.
Debian Stable sure is better than Testing.
Anyways, can anybody confirm that their Open Office Base is working? (tables)
Knoda is my backup plan :-)
Thanks in advance.
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The Bernstein-packages are source-based, and after the upgrade and a reboot, they failed to boot, due to being linked with a wrong version of libc. This meant that ssh that was listening on a locally defined dns-name failed to start, because name-resolution didn't work (the system was also running as it's own recursive dns).
The fix was easy, after I hooked up a monitor and keyboard to the system, just install the dbjdns-installer and daemontools-installer, and download and build both again. It was a bit difficult to diagnose on a completely headless system, however (that's what I get for not having a null-modem cable laying about).
Just thought I'd point it out here, in case anyone might be bitten by the same problem.
Another, easier fix, would've been to have set sshd to listen to all interfaces, before a reboot (ListenAddress 0.0.0.0 or ListenAddress ::). And a reasonable testcase before reboot, would've been to try and restart all services one-by-one, and look for errors.
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