Hi! Welcome to bitfolk. :) Are you able to ping apt-cacher.lon.bitfolk.com? Thanks, Rakhesh On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:01 +0000, "Alexander Mann" <alex(a)letmethink.co.uk> wrote:

On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:33 +0000, "Alexander Mann" <alex(a)letmethink.co.uk> wrote: Oops! :) I got the impression you were a new user. I think the cache for Etch has a problem. When I browse to http://apt-cacher.lon.bitfolk.com/debian/ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/etc… with w3m I get nothing, but if I replace "etch" in that link with "lenny" it downloads the file.

Hiya, On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:01:05AM +0000, Alexander Mann wrote: You might be out of luck using the bitfolk apt-cacher, as it looks as if etch has been removed from ftp.uk.d.o (and has been for some time?) ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/ ...so you may have to use an archive mirror which has etch (oldstable) available. Furthermore, security support for etch has been discontinued, so I strongly urge you to upgrade to lenny ASAP. See http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/06/msg00003.html http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEtch for more information. Cheers, Iain

Hi Alexander, 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. No. 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 -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

On 22 Dec 2010, at 15:47, Andy Smith wrote: The whole lenny thing had kind of passed me by, but I've now upgraded. Yes, it was, now showing alex@i:~$ cat /etc/debian_version 5.0.7 alex@i:~$ uname -r 2.6.26-2-xen-686 Thanks, changed. Yep, that was the situation, but I've rebooted now and it looks ok. Thanks, noted for future reference. Alex

On 24/12/10 06:08, Andy Smith wrote: Nearly missed it entirely. From the way the bug counter is going, I think they're aiming for a 1st January release. John