9 May
2010
9 May
'10
2:51 a.m.
Hello,
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:58:50PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
Secondly, if you are considering upgrading an Ubuntu
VPS to 10.04 I
would recommend waiting until after the weekend. I haven't tried it
yet myself, though I do hope to do so. I think it should work, but
there might be some gotchas,
If you're wanting to upgrade to 10.04 and are somehow on a kernel
version < 2.6.22 then it won't work because of this:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tar/+bug/539814
(tl;dr version: newer versions of some essential binaries like tar
require syscall behaviour only present in kernel 2.6.22+)
This will affect very few (probably none) of you, since there should
be no way you're running such an old kernel, but I'll say it just in
case. It's possible that someone is still on a variant of 2.6.18
from the old days before pygrub let you use your own.
If so then your upgrade will fail because you'll reach a point where
your 10.04 userland is still running under a kernel that's too old
for tar (and other stuff) to work.
The fix would be to use a newer kernel, such as the Xen one packaged
for Ubuntu 8.04 or Debian Lenny. If you can't because you're still
not set up for pygrub, please open a support ticket and let's get
that fixed.
Cheers,
Andy
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