Hello, Following the How to Upgrade Debian 8 (Jessie) to 9 (Stretch) safely HowTo (https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/how-to-upgrade-debian-8-jessie-to-9-stretch/) I encounter a number of problems during Debian 8 update step (Update the packages for Debian 8). The orignal /etc/apt/sources.list was: Code: #deb http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net/debian/ jessie main #deb-src http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net/debian/ jessie main #deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main #deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main # jessie-updates, previously known as 'volatile' #deb http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net/debian/ jessie-updates main #deb-src http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net/debian/ jessie-updates main # jessie-backports, previously on backports.debian.org #deb http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net/debian/ jessie-backports main #deb-src http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net/debian/ jessie-backports main #deb http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free #deb-src http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free And the updated for Debian 9 upgrade: Code: deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stretch main contrib non-free deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stretch-updates main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org stretch/updates main contrib non-free And it's an ispConfig server --------------------------------- apt-get update --------------------------------- 1/public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY Code: W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: http: //dl.hhvm.com jessie InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY B4112585D386EB94 Resolved by adding the key: Code: root@xxxxx:/# sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys B4112585D386EB94 2/ IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Code: Installing new version of config file /etc/mailman/apache.conf ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/lib/mailman/bin/list_lists", line 134, in <module> main() File "/var/lib/mailman/bin/list_lists", line 101, in main mlist = MailList.MailList(n, lock=0) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 131, in __init__ self.Load() File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 703, in Load self.CheckVersion(dict) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 753, in CheckVersion self.Lock() File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 162, in Lock self.__lock.lock(timeout) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 243, in lock self.__write() File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 422, in __write fp = open(self.__tmpfname, 'w') IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/lib/mailman/locks/mailman.lock.nsXXXXX.ip-xx-xx-xx.eu.22209.0' --------------------------------- apt-get dist-upgrade --------------------------------- During this step I choose N at each configuration question 1/ dpkg: perl-modules: dependency problems Code: dpkg: perl-modules: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you requested: perl depends on perl-modules (>= 5.20.2-3+deb8u7). spamassassin depends on libarchive-tar-perl; however: Package libarchive-tar-perl is not installed. Package perl-modules which provides libarchive-tar-perl is to be removed. amavisd-new depends on libarchive-tar-perl; however: Package libarchive-tar-perl is not installed. Package perl-modules which provides libarchive-tar-perl is to be removed. libmailtools-perl depends on libnet-perl; however: Package libnet-perl is not installed. Package perl-modules which provides libnet-perl is to be removed. 2/ dpkg warning about udev Code: dpkg: considering deconfiguration of ifupdown, which would be broken by installation of udev ... dpkg: yes, will deconfigure ifupdown (broken by udev) dpkg: considering deconfiguration of systemd, which would be broken by installation of udev ... dpkg: yes, will deconfigure systemd (broken by udev) 3/ HHVM is being removed Do I need to run manually the commands? Code: ******************************************************************** * HHVM is being removed. You can remove it from your webserver with: --- * * $ sudo /usr/share/hhvm/uninstall_fastcgi.sh * $ sudo /etc/init.d/nginx restart * $ sudo /etc/init.d/apache restart ******************************************************************** 4/ There is a MySQL server running, but we failed in our attempts to stop it. Code: There is a MySQL server running, but we failed in our attempts to stop it. Stop it yourself and try again! dpkg: error processing package mariadb-server-10.0 (--remove): subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: mariadb-client-10.0: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you requested: mariadb-server-10.0 depends on mariadb-client-10.0 (>= 10.0.30-0+deb8u2); however: Package mariadb-client-10.0 is to be removed. roundcube-mysql depends on mariadb-client | mysql-client | virtual-mysql-client; however: Package mariadb-client is not configured yet. Package mysql-client is not installed. Package virtual-mysql-client is not installed. Package mariadb-client-10.0 which provides virtual-mysql-client is to be removed. Removing mariadb-client-10.0 (10.0.30-0+deb8u2) ... Removing mariadb-client-core-10.0 (10.0.30-0+deb8u2) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ... Errors were encountered while processing: mariadb-server-10.0 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) At this step I decided to stop everything Usually, what is the right process to follow to continue the upgrade, in this case ? Need I stop MySQL and run again apt-get dist-upgrade ? Help welcome !
Debian project provides upgrading instructions in the Release Notes: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/releasenotes Use those to solve problems during the upgrade process. There is this, for instance: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#unofficial-sources You seem to have HHVM installed from outside of Debian. Are there still files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ ? You should remove packages installed from outside of Debian Jessie before the upgrade to Stretch.
Thank you for your reply. thne I guess I have to uninstall HHVM, stop MySQL server then run again apt-get update & apt-get dist-upgrade, isn'it ?
More or less, but the Debian Upgrade instructions recommend doing the upgrade in two phases, that is first Code: apt-get update apt-get upgrade and then Code: apt-get dist-upgrade Plus, remove the files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ before update, so things there do not mess up the upgrade. I have never stopped MySQL before the upgrade, but you should first fix the errors you have now in Jessie and only then attempt the upgrade to Stretch. Or if MySQL stays faulty, uninstall it, then do the upgrade and install it back when Stretch is running.
OK, in fact it appears the described problems occured during the 8 to 9 upgrades, not during Debian 8 upgrade (I corrected my post). /etc/debian_version returns 9.9 dpkg --audit returns: Code: The following packages have been unpacked but not yet configured. They must be configured using dpkg --configure or the configure menu option in dselect for them to work: apache2 Apache HTTP Server apache2-bin Apache HTTP Server (modules and other binary files) apache2-data Apache HTTP Server (common files) apache2-utils Apache HTTP Server (utility programs for web servers) apt commandline package manager apt-utils package management related utility programs dmeventd Linux Kernel Device Mapper event daemon guile-2.0-libs:amd64 Core Guile libraries ifupdown high level tools to configure network interfaces imagemagick image manipulation programs -- binaries imagemagick-6.q16 image manipulation programs -- quantum depth Q16 libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl module to find differences between files (XS acceler libapache2-mod-passenger Rails and Rack support for Apache2 libaprutil1:amd64 Apache Portable Runtime Utility Library libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3:amd64 Apache Portable Runtime Utility Library - SQLite3 Driv libaprutil1-ldap:amd64 Apache Portable Runtime Utility Library - LDAP Driver libapt-inst2.0:amd64 deb package format runtime library libasprintf-dev:amd64 GNU Internationalization library development files libasprintf0v5:amd64 GNU library to use fprintf and friends in C++ libb-hooks-op-check-perl Perl wrapper for OP check callbacks libbareword-filehandles-perl Perl pragma to disable bareword filehandles libberkeleydb-perl use Berkeley DB databases from Perl libc-dev-bin GNU C Library: Development binaries libc-l10n GNU C Library: localization files libc6-dev:amd64 GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Header Files libclass-xsaccessor-perl Perl module providing fast XS accessors libclone-perl module for recursively copying Perl datatypes libconvert-uulib-perl Perl interface to the uulib library (a.k.a. uudeview/uue libcrypt-openssl-bignum-perl Perl module to access OpenSSL multiprecision inte libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl module for RSA encryption using OpenSSL libcurl3:amd64 easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library (OpenSSL fla libdbd-mysql-perl Perl5 database interface to the MariaDB/MySQL database libdbi-perl Perl Database Interface (DBI) libdevmapper-event1.02.1:amd64 Linux Kernel Device Mapper event support library libfile-fcntllock-perl Perl module for file locking with fcntl(2) libgnutls30:amd64 GNU TLS library - main runtime library libgssapi-perl Perl extension providing access to the GSSAPIv2 library libhogweed4:amd64 low level cryptographic library (public-key cryptos) libhtml-parser-perl collection of modules that parse HTML text documents libicu57:amd64 International Components for Unicode libidn2-0:amd64 Internationalized domain names (IDNA2008) library libindirect-perl module warning about using the indirect object syntax libkyotocabinet16v5:amd64 Straightforward implementation of DBM - shared library libldap-2.4-2:amd64 OpenLDAP libraries libldap-common OpenLDAP common files for libraries liblexical-sealrequirehints-perl Perl module to prevent the leakage of lexical liblocale-gettext-perl module using libc functions for internationalization in liblua5.2-0:amd64 Shared library for the Lua interpreter version 5.2 liblvm2app2.2:amd64 LVM2 application library liblvm2cmd2.02:amd64 LVM2 command library libmailutils5:amd64 GNU Mail abstraction library libmariadbclient18:amd64 MariaDB database client library libmultidimensional-perl Perl pragma to disable multidimensional array emulati libnet-libidn-perl Perl bindings for GNU Libidn libnet-ssleay-perl Perl module for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) libnetaddr-ip-perl IP address manipulation module libnettle6:amd64 low level cryptographic library (symmetric and one-way cr libnghttp2-14:amd64 library implementing HTTP/2 protocol (shared library) libparams-classify-perl Perl module for argument type classification libpcre16-3:amd64 Old Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expression Library - 16 bit libpcre3-dev:amd64 Old Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expression Library - develo libpcre32-3:amd64 Old Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expression Library - 32 bit libpcrecpp0v5:amd64 Old Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expression Library - C++ ru libperl5.24:amd64 shared Perl library libpsl5:amd64 Library for Public Suffix List (shared libraries) libpython2.7:amd64 Shared Python runtime library (version 2.7) libpython2.7-dev:amd64 Header files and a static library for Python (v2.7) libpython2.7-minimal:amd64 Minimal subset of the Python language (version 2.7) libpython2.7-stdlib:amd64 Interactive high-level object-oriented language (standard libpython3-stdlib:amd64 interactive high-level object-oriented language (default libpython3.5-stdlib:amd64 Interactive high-level object-oriented language (standard libreadline7:amd64 GNU readline and history libraries, run-time libraries librtmp1:amd64 toolkit for RTMP streams (shared library) libruby2.3:amd64 Libraries necessary to run Ruby 2.3 libsasl2-2:amd64 Cyrus SASL - authentication abstraction library libsocket6-perl Perl extensions for IPv6 libssl1.0.2:amd64 Secure Sockets Layer toolkit - shared libraries libsub-name-perl module for assigning a new name to referenced sub libterm-readkey-perl perl module for simple terminal control libtext-charwidth-perl get display widths of characters on the terminal libtext-iconv-perl converts between character sets in Perl libunix-syslog-perl Perl interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls libuv1:amd64 asynchronous event notification library - runtime library libxml2:amd64 GNOME XML library locales GNU C Library: National Language (locale) data [support] lvm2 Linux Logical Volume Manager mailutils GNU mailutils utilities for handling mail mailutils-common Common files for GNU mailutils mariadb-client MariaDB database client (metapackage depending on the lat mariadb-server MariaDB database server (metapackage depending on the lat passenger Rails and Rack support perl Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language perl-modules-5.24 Core Perl modules perl-openssl-defaults:amd64 version compatibility baseline for Perl OpenSSL packages postfix High-performance mail transport agent postfix-mysql MySQL map support for Postfix postfix-sqlite SQLite map support for Postfix python2.7 Interactive high-level object-oriented language (version python2.7-dev Header files and a static library for Python (v2.7) python2.7-minimal Minimal subset of the Python language (version 2.7) python3 interactive high-level object-oriented language (default python3.5 Interactive high-level object-oriented language (version rake ruby make-like utility ruby Interpreter of object-oriented scripting language Ruby (d ruby-did-you-mean smart error messages for Ruby > 2.3 ruby-minitest Ruby test tools supporting TDD, BDD, mocking, and benchma ruby-net-telnet telnet client library ruby-passenger transitional dummy package for passenger ruby-power-assert library showing values of variables and method calls in a ruby-test-unit unit testing framework for Ruby ruby2.3 Interpreter of object-oriented scripting language Ruby udev /dev/ and hotplug management daemon The following packages have been triggered, but the trigger processing has not yet been done. Trigger processing can be requested using dselect or dpkg --configure --pending (or dpkg --triggers-only): ufw program for managing a Netfilter firewall
Quite a mess. I would restore the Jessie system and start upgrade process again, this time following the Release Notes upgrade instructions. If you prefer not doing that, the dpkg--audit suggest how to get the configurations done. You might get lucky and sort out the mess.
