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Monday, June 17, 2013
Debian squeeze: remaining upgrade steps
These will take a while (an hour to download the packages; and unknown time to actually upgrade them). So services may come and go over the next few hours. However we're highly unlikely to see system downtime from now on (there are no scheduled reboots, and we're now running a stock Debian kernel). I'll post again here, and update /etc/motd & /info/new once the upgrade is complete.
Reboot succeeded; next stage started
The reboot took longer than expected; the next stage is to upgrade the rest of the system, initially piece by piece and then everything else all at once.
Some services will disappear during this time (indeed, some are probably missing now), and will be fixed on completion of the upgrade.
Some services will disappear during this time (indeed, some are probably missing now), and will be fixed on completion of the upgrade.
Server reboot, possible problems
Predictably, the more recent Debian kernel doesn't seem to actually be working. I'm submitting a request to the hosting provider to get console access and figure out what's going on.
Atreus upgrade to Debian 6.0
This is now underway, starting with a minimal upgrade, then a kernel switch. I'm hoping that the new stock Debian kernel will Just Work (it sounds credible, at least), in which case possibly the only significant downtime will be if the RAID controller decides to verify the RAID set. If that happens, there'll be a 2+ hour downtime while it does that; if not it should be more like a few minutes.
Ongoing information as it happens…
Ongoing information as it happens…
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