Re: [bitfolk] Apt errors

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:22:43PM +0000, Alexander Mann wrote: Are you planning to upgrade from etch to lenny?

Is this before your reboot with the new kernel? lenny users should

have linux-image-2.6-xen-686 and would expect to be seeing this kernel: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 86225 2010-11-25 03:06 config-2.6.26-2- xen-686 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-12-22 15:36 grub -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6138908 2010-11-28 14:06 initrd.img-2.6.26-2- xen-686 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6137231 2010-07-01 14:28 initrd.img-2.6.26-2- xen-686.bak -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 907001 2010-11-25 03:06 System.map-2.6.26-2- xen-686 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1485774 2010-11-25 03:06 vmlinuz-2.6.26-2- xen-686 I would use "lenny" instead of "stable" as otherwise when squeeze is released as stable (soon) you'll upgrade everything the next time you do an update.

So can you clarify.. you've done an upgrade between etch and lenny but haven't yet rebooted?

Here's some notes about that: http://lists.bitfolk.com/lurker/message/20090215.143329.9ef21e84.en.html I've done etch->lenny many times on BitFolk VPSes and apart from the above there haven't been any issues. You just follow the regular upgrade instructions from the release notes of lenny. But still, when it comes to major distribution upgrades we always advise that customers ask for a snapshot to be made of their block devices. If things go terribly wrong then we can fairly quickly restore that, as opposed to having to do a clean install. There is also the option of asking for a new VPS to migrate into: https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Migrating_to_a_new_VPS

Cheers, Andy