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On Tuesday 10 April 2007 10:42, Neil Williams wrote: > > I've now done four upgrades from various directions, including Sarge > to Etch and Sid to Etch. The easiest one was my own > server - I simply changed /etc/apt/sources.list and cron-apt did the > rest. (And yes, it is still running - it's running the DCGLUG website!) > Well I bit the bullet and did the upgrade from Sarge to Etch yesterday... only a few significant issues which I'll run through for anyone who's yet to do it. Apache was broken after the upgrade due to two modules being removed from the new version of Apache (these were core modules, not extra ones I installed) and their config files not being purged (so it was still trying to load them). Note also that if you run Apache with SSL and certificates protected with a passphrase (i.e. Apache normally asks you for a passphrase when it is started) the upgrade process will stall when it tries to restart Apache during the glibc upgrade, as it doesn't prompt you for the passphrase but it's still waiting for it. Really clever to prompt the user for a passphrase when not attached to a terminal... you'll need to log-in to the physical machine (ssh won't work at this point) and kill the Apache start-up scripts for the upgrade to continue. nut (Network UPS Tools) was broken due to changed permissions on serial ports (probably due to the installation of udev). Solution is to add the nut user to the dialout group. fetchmail was broken due to a change in config file format affecting the way maildrop works (anyone not using maildrop should be OK). I had no issues with the following: Postfix, amavisd-new, clamav, spamassassin, mailman, squid, mysql, Samba, inetd services. All-in-all the upgrade wasn't too bad. No need to reboot and everything is working fine now. I've reported the first apache issue as a bug and the nut issue is already fixed in unstable, so hopefully these will be fixed in Etch soon. Regards, David. -- David Johnson www.david-web.co.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html