Comments on: Howto upgrade Debian 3.1 Sarge to Debian 4.0 Etch stable

By: alex

alex — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:33:01 +0000

I can’t find “deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib” Help anyone?

By: Donald Axel

Donald Axel — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:37:50 +0000

I guess that you are aware that the main upgrade can take a long
time and probably will recommend that you reboot, whereas your
recommended reboot after changing the sources.list strictly spoken
is not necessary as far as I know.

Otherwise I appreciate the text, which takes you by the hand nicely.

I Googled your blog becuase I needed to know why the system suddenly
whines about “stable” not being “etch”.

You should run aptitude up_grade_ once in a while, as far as I know.

By: Joe Tannenbaum

Joe Tannenbaum — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:17:45 +0000

I did this and now lib_php5.so is not recognized as an apache module? Also, at end of upgrade
the deb ver is 4.0 but kernel is still 2.4.27-2-386???? The upgrade doesn’t upgrade the kernel?

Thanks,
Joe

By: pranav

pranav — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:28:10 +0000

Hello!
May i get info on how to upgrade
Debian sarge 3.1r2 kernel 2.4
to
Debian etch 4.0r1 kernel 2.6

Thanking You

By: Nada

Nada — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:45:37 +0000

nice guidelines thanks :-)
please add ministep
/usr/sbin/update-grub
before step #5 reboot

By: Gary V

Gary V — Thu, 03 May 2007 20:35:37 +0000

As mentioned, upgrading amavisd-new may result in a broken mail system. I have put together a few notes that may give you ideas on how to make the amavisd-new upgrade painless.

http://www200.pair.com/mecham/spam/upgrade_amavisd-new.html

By: gunnerbcn

gunnerbcn — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:00:39 +0000

I´ve upgrade from a lenny/sid and now when I look to /etc/debian_version it remains like lenny/sid, Help me please!!!!

By: nixcraft

nixcraft — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 05:39:51 +0000

John,

Thanks for the heads up!

By: John

John — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:07:16 +0000

It’s Sarge not Sarga.

By: Marco

Marco — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:15:12 +0000

if your debian server runs as a mail server with postfix with amavis (and some more), please keep in mind that amavis changes configuration file and layout completely.

after the upgrade, your old config file will be renamed and amavis is not able to start again. this means, that your postfix will accept mail, put them in the mailqueue because it is not able to connect to amavis for the virus and spam checks.

you need to manually configure amavis with the new config layout and move your old config file to somewhere else. after this, you can restart amavis again.

after amavis is up and running again, use “postqueue -f” to deliver the deferred mails from the mailqueue.

there are some more things to keep an eye on, but generally, the upgrade is not a problem for some medium experienced people.

By: nixcraft

nixcraft — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:17:21 +0000

@Robert

Good hint.

@Jon

Yup, upgrade may create a problem.

Appreciate your posts!

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:32:23 +0000

Or you can do it properly and follow the release notes:

http://www.us.debian.org/releases/stable/releasenotes

There are a couple of issues to be aware of.

By: blog.holidayworking.net

blog.holidayworking.net — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:10:56 +0000

Debian GNU/Linux on KURO-BOX/HG #2…

玄箱の Debian GNU/Linux を sarge か……

By: Robert middleswarth

Robert middleswarth — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:33:05 +0000

Warning. Before you reboot check you mdadm settings. This bit me baddly. There was a major change in mdadm and if you do remove and file and update /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf before you reboot you will have a paper wait if you depend on raid at all.

Thanks
robert

By: nixcraft

nixcraft — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:30:14 +0000

@Chmouel, Yes you can use aptitude :)

@chris, I Need to change because of an error otherwise no need to change the sources.list file.

Appreciate your posts!

By: chris rattis

chris rattis — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 06:21:35 +0000

A few notes;

Because Etch is now stable, you don’t need to change lines in the sources.list file. Doing that means the user will have to change that line in the future when the new testing is made stable.

Changing from stable, testing or unstable in the sources.list file to the code name means that you’ve locked yourself to that version. In fact people that don’t want to upgrade would change stable to Sarge to keep the same repositories they already have.

By: Chmouel

Chmouel — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 05:39:35 +0000

You probably want to use aptitude instead of apt-get which is now the recommended upgrade method.

By: iadm

iadm — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 01:19:27 +0000

Simple, straight forward, good work … keep it up!