Was your upgrade from Sarge to Etch painless?
Submitted by root on Wed 18 Apr 2007
| Minor problems only. |
   30% | 308 votes |
| X11/Xorg problems only. |
6% | 70 votes |
| Major Problems. |
6% | 61 votes |
| I reinstalled |
13% | 140 votes |
| I'm waiting |
14% | 142 votes |
| Yes. |
28% | 281 votes |
| Total 1002 votes |
A couple little issues, mostly because I didn't read any of the documentation first.
KDE wouldn't load, my fault.
Mouse wheel doesn't work anymore.. gonna fix that later.
Funny little things with Konqueror and devices giving me errors.
Nothing special and I'm sure if i took the time to read before I wouldn't have these problems..
KDE wouldn't load, my fault.
Mouse wheel doesn't work anymore.. gonna fix that later.
Funny little things with Konqueror and devices giving me errors.
Nothing special and I'm sure if i took the time to read before I wouldn't have these problems..
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Posted by Anonymous (83.228.xx.xx) on Tue 24 Apr 2007 at 19:02
Hi guys!
It went smootly for me, true that I had to spend about 4-5 hours to reread some changelog and modify configs but I think it was fast.
However my munin-graph munin-html generate 100%cpu usage, I restarted many times, checked the config but I have no idea what cause this. This never happend before the upgrade.
Anyone else met with this problem?
Ant
It went smootly for me, true that I had to spend about 4-5 hours to reread some changelog and modify configs but I think it was fast.
However my munin-graph munin-html generate 100%cpu usage, I restarted many times, checked the config but I have no idea what cause this. This never happend before the upgrade.
Anyone else met with this problem?
Ant
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Posted by Anonymous (82.152.xx.xx) on Wed 18 Apr 2007 at 21:46
The only problems were entirely my own fault - trying to upgrade directly from a 2.2 to 2.6 kernel - libc6 didn't like 2.2 and I couldn't install a 2.4/2.6 because I didn't have libc6 because I didn't have . . . Downgraded to libc6 from oldstable, got a new kernel, the rest was trivial. One extra reboot of a machine that hasn't rebooted in about a year. :-)
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Posted by Anonymous (80.94.xx.xx) on Wed 25 Apr 2007 at 10:08
oops, i've got the same problem upgrading from 2.2.x, can i talk to you a little? there's a kinda catch22 with that libc6, when it says "i don't want to upgrade coz your kernel doesn't like me, you'll have problems", and newer kernel says "i don't want to install coz i need newer libc6".
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Pretty painless, see my log entries here:
http://www.debian-administration.org/users/ajt/weblog/64
http://www.debian-administration.org/users/ajt/weblog/65
http://www.debian-administration.org/users/ajt/weblog/68
So far my better half says "nothing has changed" and my father things it boots much faster...
--
"It's Not Magic, It's Work"
Adam
http://www.debian-administration.org/users/ajt/weblog/64
http://www.debian-administration.org/users/ajt/weblog/65
http://www.debian-administration.org/users/ajt/weblog/68
So far my better half says "nothing has changed" and my father things it boots much faster...
--
"It's Not Magic, It's Work"
Adam
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Absolutely painless. I was using Sarge with Fluxbox, and now I'm using Etch with Fluxbox. I was expecting X problems and made a bunch of notes on it. Fortunately they were not needed. Thanks Debian; nice job.
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Posted by Anonymous (168.103.xx.xx) on Fri 20 Apr 2007 at 16:29
Only two real issues:
1) New postgresql defaulted to listening on port 5433, instead of the previous 5432. I'm not sure if this was a bug or a feature, but /etc/services still lists port 5432 for postgresql service.
2) Openswan VPN was problematic until I updated the remote end to Etch as well.
1) New postgresql defaulted to listening on port 5433, instead of the previous 5432. I'm not sure if this was a bug or a feature, but /etc/services still lists port 5432 for postgresql service.
2) Openswan VPN was problematic until I updated the remote end to Etch as well.
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Posted by Anonymous (85.22.xx.xx) on Mon 23 Apr 2007 at 10:01
Looks like you installed PostgreSQL 7.4 and 8.1 in parallel. Since the two daemons cannot listen on the same port, the new version listens on port 5433.
Read the manpage of pg_upgradecluster for the final migration steps. When everything works fine, uninstall the 7.4 packages.
Read the manpage of pg_upgradecluster for the final migration steps. When everything works fine, uninstall the 7.4 packages.
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It went great.
update /etc/apt/sources.list from sarge to etch
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade and 10 minutes later I was running etch.
I rebooted to get the new kernel, but that was only because I wanted to.
All my desktops were already running etch (testing) so that was an upgrade of only 3 or 4 packages.
update /etc/apt/sources.list from sarge to etch
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade and 10 minutes later I was running etch.
I rebooted to get the new kernel, but that was only because I wanted to.
All my desktops were already running etch (testing) so that was an upgrade of only 3 or 4 packages.
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It went great on both the server and the Desktop I upgraded. However, it is tempting to do a reinstall on the desktop to benefit from an encrypted LVM partition.
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Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe
AMD 64 FX-62 (2.8 GHz)
2GB PC880 RAM
Nvidia 8800GTS BIOS 60.80.06.00.03
attempted install on 3rd partition of 1st ATA disk
no over clocking
Graphic install does not work
First install attempt messed up the nvidia device install; started over
Second install attempt hung apt updating
Third install attempt hung apt downloading stuff
Gave up
AMD 64 FX-62 (2.8 GHz)
2GB PC880 RAM
Nvidia 8800GTS BIOS 60.80.06.00.03
attempted install on 3rd partition of 1st ATA disk
no over clocking
Graphic install does not work
First install attempt messed up the nvidia device install; started over
Second install attempt hung apt updating
Third install attempt hung apt downloading stuff
Gave up
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oops ya, but having installed Debian many many times I guess I mistakenly considered it an upgrade because I have Debian installed on a few machines.
My apologies. I guess I should take the time to file an install report.
My apologies. I guess I should take the time to file an install report.
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Posted by Anonymous (66.190.xx.xx) on Tue 24 Apr 2007 at 22:58
Painless, but that was a LONG time ago =)
Of course I use a very simple environment, primarily xorg, blackbox or fluxbox depending on mood, everything running in xterms.
Of course I use a very simple environment, primarily xorg, blackbox or fluxbox depending on mood, everything running in xterms.
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Posted by Anonymous (145.85.xx.xx) on Thu 26 Apr 2007 at 18:26
I have a rather simple configuration where it is used as a firewall/router with shorewall/proxy/dns/munin. I first took a look at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgra ding.en.html, which completely guided me through the upgrade (with ssh, though not recommended). It took me some time 'cause several configuration files needed some attention. After that I added the "bash_completion" tip and now it works perfect. So have to give it a "yes"
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Posted by sabin (85.126.xx.xx) on Fri 27 Apr 2007 at 14:41
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worked fine for me, excepting the fact that etch lacks libapache2-mod-auth-mysql which I really need and couldn't find a decent alternative.
greets
./sabin -s
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Posted by Anonymous (212.182.xx.xx) on Sat 28 Apr 2007 at 07:17
Problems with cyrus imap server (!!). Mailboxes disappered.
amavis-stats doesn't work anymore
Some other minor problems
amavis-stats doesn't work anymore
Some other minor problems
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Posted by Anonymous (87.4.xx.xx) on Sun 29 Apr 2007 at 08:08
many problem with udev and kernel. in sarge kernel 2.6.8 udev not run properly and init image is malconfigured, after reboot with new kernel machine stop at start with kernel panic.
Macintosh 73200/200
2 scsi 4gb
4M video mem
256 MB ram
Macintosh 73200/200
2 scsi 4gb
4M video mem
256 MB ram
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The first upgrade with apt-get on my test server was smooth except I had to remove portmap, inetd, and other services from startup. Which I had removed under Sarge.
After reading all of the howto's, I decided to use aptitude because all of the documentation stated "The recommended way to upgrade from previous Debian GNU/Linux releases is to use the package management tool aptitude. This program makes safer decisions about package installations than running apt-get directly."
The small price I had to pay for aptitudes better decision making was it always replaces postfix with exim4. This was not a big deal and I have used it on 5 server upgrades so far. Still have to remove the extra services from startup.
Great job Debian. I feel sorry for my window counterparts when they have to upgrade from 2003 to Vista :-)
After reading all of the howto's, I decided to use aptitude because all of the documentation stated "The recommended way to upgrade from previous Debian GNU/Linux releases is to use the package management tool aptitude. This program makes safer decisions about package installations than running apt-get directly."
The small price I had to pay for aptitudes better decision making was it always replaces postfix with exim4. This was not a big deal and I have used it on 5 server upgrades so far. Still have to remove the extra services from startup.
Great job Debian. I feel sorry for my window counterparts when they have to upgrade from 2003 to Vista :-)
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Posted by Anonymous (91.122.xx.xx) on Mon 30 Apr 2007 at 10:12
I voted for minor problems - network interfaces were reordered on Supermicro X6DVA server after reboot to the new kernel.
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Posted by Anonymous (82.234.xx.xx) on Wed 2 May 2007 at 19:25
same for me,
but I think it's a real BUG to not inform about this known "trouble" when the upgrade detects at least two interfaces.
it happened on my network gateway... and i had to quicky drives 25 km to reorder the network links ...after i loose all the network.
but I think it's a real BUG to not inform about this known "trouble" when the upgrade detects at least two interfaces.
it happened on my network gateway... and i had to quicky drives 25 km to reorder the network links ...after i loose all the network.
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Posted by Anonymous (68.74.xx.xx) on Mon 30 Apr 2007 at 20:58
Minor. I upgraded and all I had to do was edit my shorewall config and enable the PHP5 apache2 mod (and that's not a problem at all :D).
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