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cfiles

March 6th, 2009, 04:55 PM

Has anybody managed (recently) to upgrade an old release to the latest? If so how did you go about it?

I have inherited a server that has feisty installed and it needs to be upgraded. The kicker is I do not have physical access to the server. I have been using do-release-upgrade from the command line and it is failing because it cannot get the upgrade prerequisites. Specifically "Getting upgrade prerequisites failed". Any ideas?

taurus

March 6th, 2009, 05:00 PM

Since feisty has expired and no longer supported, the repos have been moved too. Therefore, you need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list and replace the current repos (something like deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/) to the new one.

deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/

avtolle

March 6th, 2009, 05:27 PM

If you haven't seen https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GutsyUpgrades#Network%20upgrade%20for%20Ubuntu%20s ervers%20(recommended) please take a look at it, which hopefully will be of help.

cfiles

March 6th, 2009, 06:21 PM

I looked at what you guys sent and I was able to get Feisty up-to-date. However, the do-release-upgrade keeps failing. My guess is because it is looking for the Gusty packages at http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy-*

Is there anyway to make it look in the main archive? Do I need to change the sources back to "archive" instead of "old-release"?

avtolle

March 6th, 2009, 06:26 PM

Yes; you will need to change the /etc/apt/sources.list file to reflect archive rather than old sources. IIRC, there is a discussion in the link I posted which refers to commenting out the "old" Feisty sources, then opening another virtual terminal at some point, removing the commenting, and proceeding. Take a look at that again to see if I recall what I think I do. :)

taurus

March 6th, 2009, 06:27 PM

Yes, change it back to what it was but with gutsy now instead of feisty.

cfiles

March 6th, 2009, 06:37 PM

So it should look like this?:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gusty main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gusty-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gusty-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gusty-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gusty-backports main/debian-installer
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gusty-backports main restricted universe multiverse

taurus

March 6th, 2009, 06:38 PM

cfiles

March 6th, 2009, 06:41 PM

That was in the upgrade guide...

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GutsyUpgrades#Network%20upgrade%20for%20Ubuntu%20s ervers%20(recommended

cfiles

March 6th, 2009, 07:00 PM

After the change the command is still failing, any other ideas?

avtolle

March 6th, 2009, 08:23 PM

Did you install update-manager-core as instructed in the link prior to running the do-release-upgrade command?

cfiles

March 6th, 2009, 08:26 PM

Yes. The do-release-upgrade command is part of that package.

avtolle

March 6th, 2009, 08:38 PM

Thanks for the information (never had a server to upgrade, so I'm not familiar with the process). What I wonder (that's all this is, wondering) is whether the change of the sources.list to point to old releases is what is fouling things up for you. Reasoning: the somewhat vague comments about just commenting out the extant sources in the list and then removing the comments when reaching a certain step make sense, but nothingsaid about the old releases additions to the file needed to totally update Feisty. In other words, should the additions to the sources.list be commented out when uncommenting the previously existing mirrors as set out in the link.

Just went back to the linked piece (first time I've looked at it in any detail recently) and see where a note has been added indicating that a network upgrade is not possible any more with 7.04; wonder when that was added? Also, I took a quick look at the bug report linked there, and bluntly, something is happening which I don't pretend to understand when reading through the various posts.

cfiles

March 6th, 2009, 08:44 PM

but nothingsaid about the old releases additions to the file needed to totally update Feisty. In other words, should the additions to the sources.list be commented out when uncommenting the previously existing mirrors as set out in the link.

I know, that has me curious too.

see where a note has been added indicating that a network upgrade is not possible any more with 7.04; wonder when that was added? Also, I took a quick look at the bug report linked there, and bluntly, something is happening which I don't pretend to understand when reading through the various posts.

I do not understand it either :) I may see if I can get somebody on site to do an upgrade off of a CD. I may just be stuck with an old version until we can take this one off line. Thanks for the help!