upgrade from 9.2 to 10.0 - not so smooth
Well, thought I'd relay my experience doing the upgrade, just another data point for other folks to consider. Things are almost back to 100% right now (total number of hours spent solving hickups so far: about 1.5 to 2). ** Main problem: the upgrade generated initrd file wasn't appropriate (it seems). Relevant rig info: AMD x86_64 (3500+), 2 SATA HDs, raid 0. Disclaimer: full back up made before upgrade. The upgrade process (package selection etc.) was simple and intutive, no surprises here. The problem: upon rebooting, the kernel panicked: something like: "/dev/md1 did not appear" or somesuch (I know I should have written it down, but it was 3am, I was tired and didn't think it would be important). My partition scheme: /dev/sda1 mounted as /boot (ext2, bootable) /dev/sda2 and /dev/sdb1 as swap (/dev/md0) /dev/sda3 and /dev/sdb2 as / (/dev/md1) Starting the DVD in rescue mode, and after fsck'ing everything, mounted and chrooted into the partitions, and run mkinitrd -u=no udev. Reboot. Now the system did find the raid, but this time it panicked with: "run-init: file not found" (I'm pretty sure it said almost exacly that). Another reboot with the DVD, chroot, and this time run: "mkinitrd -uR" ("use initrd instead of initramfs"). This time it booted up and everything seems ok. A few glitches here and there (the most serious is with the sound: I can't seem to remove the old sound card from yast2 sound, so I can run config on it again; maybe I'll start another thread on that). So, the negative side: a few fairly serious (IMO) glitches seemingly related to mkinitrd. The positives: Once I manage to get the system to reboot, everything else seems to be working fine, altough I haven't have the time to look closely. I run a simple web site from my machine, just for relatives and friends to see our family pictures and things like that. Using wordpress and gallery, both of which rely on mysql to keep users, usage, etc. The site was up an running upon reboot, no troubleshooting whatsoever necessary. That pleasantly surprised me. Hope this info is useful to someone. Cheers, Adalberto
On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 22:08 -0400, Adalberto Castelo wrote:
Well, thought I'd relay my experience doing the upgrade, just another data point for other folks to consider. Things are almost back to 100% right now (total number of hours spent solving hickups so far: about 1.5 to 2).
Too much of a leap of faith. If you make such big jumps as I do a clean install is the only way assuming, hint hint, you have /home on its own partition. CWSIV
On Monday 10 October 2005 21:50, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 22:08 -0400, Adalberto Castelo wrote:
Well, thought I'd relay my experience doing the upgrade, just another data point for other folks to consider. Things are almost back to 100% right now (total number of hours spent solving hickups so far: about 1.5 to 2).
Too much of a leap of faith. If you make such big jumps as I do a clean install is the only way assuming, hint hint, you have /home on its own partition.
CWSIV and assuming you don't use anything in /srv/www/htdocs/* that needs something configuring in /etc/apache2/... or similar for ftp and /etc/ftpusers + etc. etc.
Phil :-)
On Monday 10 October 2005 05:19 pm, Phil Burness wrote:
On Monday 10 October 2005 21:50, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 22:08 -0400, Adalberto Castelo wrote:
Well, thought I'd relay my experience doing the upgrade, just another data point for other folks to consider. Things are almost back to 100% right now (total number of hours spent solving hickups so far: about 1.5 to 2).
Too much of a leap of faith. If you make such big jumps as I do a clean install is the only way assuming, hint hint, you have /home on its own partition.
CWSIV
and assuming you don't use anything in /srv/www/htdocs/* that needs something configuring in /etc/apache2/... or similar for ftp and /etc/ftpusers + etc. etc.
And in these times of large and larger HD's, why not just make new partitions for 10.0 and keep all of 9.3 (or whatever is the previous system) and do a new install. Then you can still boot the old system if needed, and being able to access those old partitions means you won't lose any configuration files. Nice for comparing.
Bruce, On Monday 10 October 2005 14:20, Bruce Marshall wrote:
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And in these times of large and larger HD's, why not just make new partitions for 10.0 and keep all of 9.3 (or whatever is the previous system) and do a new install. Then you can still boot the old system if needed, and being able to access those old partitions means you won't lose any configuration files. Nice for comparing.
Precisely. Don't burn your bridges! I'm now ready to recycle my 9.1 root partition. (I went from 9.1 to 9.3 and am now running 10.0). In case there's something not working correctly, I can compare configurations from the earlier release. Old configurations don't always apply exactly or entirely, since software gets updated, but for the most part they do. Randall Schulz
On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 22:19 +0100, Phil Burness wrote:
On Monday 10 October 2005 21:50, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 22:08 -0400, Adalberto Castelo wrote:
Well, thought I'd relay my experience doing the upgrade, just another data point for other folks to consider. Things are almost back to 100% right now (total number of hours spent solving hickups so far: about 1.5 to 2).
Too much of a leap of faith. If you make such big jumps as I do a clean install is the only way assuming, hint hint, you have /home on its own partition.
CWSIV and assuming you don't use anything in /srv/www/htdocs/* that needs something configuring in /etc/apache2/... or similar for ftp and /etc/ftpusers + etc. etc.
Well i don't but I understand your point. Specialty stuff like that would of course be backed up or I suppose on its own partition and symbolically linked. -- _______ _______ _______ __ / ____\ \ / / ____|_ _\ \ / / | | \ \ /\ / / (___ | | \ \ / / | | \ \/ \/ / \___ \ | | \ \/ / | |____ \ /\ / ____) |_| |_ \ / \_____| \/ \/ |_____/|_____| \/ | \ /|\ || |\ / |~~\ /~~\ /~~| //~~\ | \ / | \ || | X |__/| || |( `--. |__ | | \| \_/ / \ | \ \__/ \__| \\__/
On Monday 10 October 2005 16:50, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
Too much of a leap of faith. If you make such big jumps as I do a
No leap of faith at all, I had everything in backup ;-)
clean install is the only way assuming, hint hint, you have /home on its own partition.
Well, as I wrote, it didn't go so bad (once I got the system to actually boot properly). I figured I'd try the update first, and if too much trouble, just do a clean install and bring /home, /usr/local and /srv from backup. But I don't think that will be necessary afterall. Which is good. Updating (even with the troubleshooting) still took less time than I think I full install would (what with all the ensuing tinkering to make everything behave like in the previous install). Adalberto
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