Debian Etch Released

Hears so in irc that it shall be released today but it wasn't yet at noon

Great that it's out now

 

Now the next nightmare.. Upgrading a "perfect" running (live) Dell PowerEdge SC 1425 from Debian Sarge (32bit) to Etch :/

Knowing me I'll f**k it up badly

 

you could wait 2-3 days until falko writes the perfect howto for etch

 

Knowing falko, he is working at it as we speak, and that it will be online later today

 

not much time left for "today" - just about 1h....

but I see your point... he now has a new toy to play with ^^

 

Debian 4.0, a nice gift for Easter indeed, but now the upgrade...

I have read some articles, how to upgrade from 3.1 to 4.0, but i really like to know what is the best and recommended way to do this upgrade.

Probably, there is more to then changing /etc/apt/sources.list, an apt-get update and finally an apt-get dist-upgrade. I do not like a spaghetti of independencies, so a small howto would be nice!

 

Here you go: http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_debian_etch

 

Thank You!!!!! I haven't gone through the HOW-TO yet, but can I ask why you recommend Courier on Etch and Postfix on Sarge?


edit: now that I'm done with the setup, nevermind! Thanks again!

 

Successful update from Sarge to Etch!

Today, i've succesfully updated my ISPConfig test-server.
This is what i've done (it might help others):

Verify if the /etc/apt/sources.list has the right content, it should be:

deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main

deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ stable main
deb-src http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ stable main

Checking for available updates:
Apt-get update

Make the system up to date:
Apt-get upgrade

Check the current kernel:
uname -r
Output: 2.6.8-2-386

Checking for new available kernels for my system:
apt-cache search kernel-image | grep 386

apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.8-3-386

Remove old kernel:
dpkg --purge --force-remove-essential kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386

Reboot the system with the new kernel.

apt-get update
(You'll see the kept back packages).

Here we go to Etch...(Crossing my fingers)
apt-get dist-upgrade

or:

aptitude -f --with-recommends dist-upgrade

Later on this week, i plan to update my two production servers!

 

No Till, no Suse for me! Debian is rock solid!

Successful without any independencies!!!
And...ISPConfig is not affected at all. Just up and running!
Great system.

 

Good luck! I'll wait till I'm at the datacenter, cause for sure this will go wrong for me when I do this myself ;/

An other option for me is to see if Till or Falko can do this! (i'll pay!)

I can not afford one of my servers to go down for more than 10 minutes! (I've got two that I would like to get Etch on)

Anyway. I'll have to wait 10 days cause I'm off to home (Scotland)

 

@Edge,

We are here to help. Do not have nightmares!

 

Well, I did it your way, Hans...exept at the end it shows:

Code:

Starting Courier IMAP-SSL server: imapd-ssl.
Errors were encountered while processing:
 sasl2-bin
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Might not be important by now, I'm going to reboot now.

On the other hand, did you chose not to take the updated config-files for all or did you look through them and put ispconfig-configuration in in the new files? I left the old ones for now....and hope my server is still working, otherwise this will become a long night....

 

A first view...it seemed to work, although it would be nice to se the maybe important changes that would have been done with the etch-config-files which I skipped for now...

PHP is 4.4.4 and MySQL is 5.0.32 after dist-upgrade...hope this makes no problems

Actually, pearl (was it pearl?) was throwing out warnings during the upgrade process because of my de_euro...that there are some missing modules for it, but this I guess wasn't important, too.....

 

Giving the command:

aptitude -f --with-recommends dist-upgrade

gives you better control and helps you to solve probable independencies.

You can perform that command after all, it does not hurt.

 

Thanks, right now I look through the differencec between 3.1 and 4 by kicking php4 and get php5 by removing the old howto-3.1-command and install the new howto-4-commands...hope this works...maybe you have any idea for http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showpost.php?p=68052&postcount=7 ?

 

Succesful update again!

I am sorry, but i've not an answer for that
But i would try to solve it with the command: aptitude -f --with-recommends dist-upgrade

After updating my test-server to Debian Etch, i just upgraded my two production servers from Debian Sarge to Etch as well.
ISPConfig is up and running.
No problems with the RAID1 configuration.
Reboot via SSH went ok!

After crossing my fingers again, i almost broke one!

Now i realise how stable Debian is!
Happy me.

(())))