Re: Error while upgrading from Wheezy to Stretch

2018-04-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 04/11/2018 12:31 PM, David Parker wrote: Hello, I am trying to upgrade two test boxes from Wheezy to Stretch (skipping Jessie). The upgrade worked on one of them, although I ran into errors and had to run "apt-get -f install" a few times, but that resolved the issues and it ultimately worked

Re: Error while upgrading from Wheezy to Stretch

2018-04-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 02:47:05PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > "Pinning" is an interesting subject Roberto, interesting because the info > on how to do it is generally skipped over, or only mentioned in passing, > with NO examples of how to do it in the man pages available. I have it > worki

Re: Error while upgrading from Wheezy to Stretch

2018-04-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 19 April 2018 15:23:16 Dan Ritter wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 02:47:05PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 19 April 2018 11:32:28 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > The only thing I would say is use apt "pinning" to prioritize the > > > backports repository lower than the ot

Re: Pinning (was Re: Error while upgrading from Wheezy to Stretch)

2018-04-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 03:46:17PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > I realize that Greg, but debian's support for armhf for unusual > applications that require a realtime environment, is at its finest, an > afterthought and discarded. We linuxcnc runners are used to it. So we > build our own kernel

Re: Pinning (was Re: Error while upgrading from Wheezy to Stretch)

2018-04-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 19 April 2018 14:59:04 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 02:47:05PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Hijacking a thread here, but it reads like I might be reading an > > expert. > > > > "Pinning" is an interesting subject Roberto, interesting because the > > info on how to d

Re: Pinning (was Re: Error while upgrading from Wheezy to Stretch)

2018-04-19 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 02:59:04PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 02:47:05PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Hijacking a thread here, but it reads like I might be reading an expert. > > > > "Pinning" is an interesting subject Rob

Re: Error while upgrading from Wheezy to Stretch

2018-04-19 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 02:47:05PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 19 April 2018 11:32:28 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > The only thing I would say is use apt "pinning" to prioritize the > > backports repository lower than the other repositories so you don't > > accidentally get backport

Re: Pinning (was Re: Error while upgrading from Wheezy to Stretch)

2018-04-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 02:47:05PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Hijacking a thread here, but it reads like I might be reading an expert. > > "Pinning" is an interesting subject Roberto, interesting because the info > on how to do it is generally skipped over, or only mentioned in passing, > with

Re: Error while upgrading from Wheezy to Stretch

2018-04-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 19 April 2018 11:32:28 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 11:26:20AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > According to http://packages.debian.org/pacemaker there is also a > > backport of the stretch version of the package in the > > jessie-backports repository. So perhaps

Re: Error while upgrading from Wheezy to Stretch

2018-04-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 11:45:11AM -0400, David Parker wrote: >I'm not positive what happened with it, but I wonder if the fact >that the pacemaker package was missing entirely from the new release >caused apt to just get rid of it during the upgrade. Neither of the package front-ends

Re: Error while upgrading from Wheezy to Stretch

2018-04-19 Thread David Parker
I never thought to use the backports repo in Jessie to keep pacemaker installed. That's a great idea, I'll give it a try and see what happens. Regarding Pacemaker's data and config, as far as I could tell, it was gone. I'm not positive what happened with it, but I wonder if the fact that the pac

Re: Error while upgrading from Wheezy to Stretch

2018-04-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 11:26:20AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > According to http://packages.debian.org/pacemaker there is also a > backport of the stretch version of the package in the jessie-backports > repository. So perhaps there is some way to convince the jessie upgrade > to use the jess

Re: Error while upgrading from Wheezy to Stretch

2018-04-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 11:18:43AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > - backup your pacemaker configurations and user-generated files, let >the upgrade process remove the packages, then restore everything >after the upgrade is complete I'm still stumped by the claim that the configuration

Re: Error while upgrading from Wheezy to Stretch

2018-04-19 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 10:57:09AM -0400, David Parker wrote: > Hi all, > > Sorry I didn't get back to this sooner, had some crazy life stuff getting > in the way. > > I should have said in my original post that there is a reason I'm trying to > jump

Re: Error while upgrading from Wheezy to Stretch

2018-04-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 10:57:09AM -0400, David Parker wrote: > >I did read the documentation and I did try Wheezy -> Jessie - > Stretch >first, but the problem was that Pacemaker was removed.  Hence, I was >hoping to skip Jessie. >If it's simply not possible to do this upgrade the

Re: Error while upgrading from Wheezy to Stretch

2018-04-19 Thread David Parker
Hi all, Sorry I didn't get back to this sooner, had some crazy life stuff getting in the way. I should have said in my original post that there is a reason I'm trying to jump from Wheezy to Stretch. These boxes are in an HA cluster with Pacemaker, Corosync, and DRBD. I have all 3 of these insta

Re: Error while upgrading from Wheezy to Stretch

2018-04-12 Thread David Wright
On Thu 12 Apr 2018 at 06:42:33 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 07:57:07PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 11 Apr 2018 at 15:31:32 (-0400), David Parker wrote: > > > I am trying to upgrade two test boxes from Wheezy to Stretch (skipping > > > Jessie). The upgrade worked o

Re: Error while upgrading from Wheezy to Stretch

2018-04-12 Thread songbird
David Parker wrote: ... given they are test boxes you should go straight to reinstall from netinst image or whatever you can get that will do it. :) much much faster than trying to fiddle around with upgrades. especially when many versions in between. of course, always check installation

Re: Error while upgrading from Wheezy to Stretch

2018-04-12 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 07:57:07PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 11 Apr 2018 at 15:31:32 (-0400), David Parker wrote: > > I am trying to upgrade two test boxes from Wheezy to Stretch (skipping > > Jessie). The upgrade worked on one of them, although I ran into errors and > > had to run "apt-

Re: Error while upgrading from Wheezy to Stretch

2018-04-11 Thread David Wright
On Wed 11 Apr 2018 at 15:31:32 (-0400), David Parker wrote: > I am trying to upgrade two test boxes from Wheezy to Stretch (skipping > Jessie). The upgrade worked on one of them, although I ran into errors and > had to run "apt-get -f install" a few times, but that resolved the issues > and it ult

Re: Error while upgrading from Wheezy to Stretch

2018-04-11 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 15:31:32 -0400 David Parker wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to upgrade two test boxes from Wheezy to Stretch (skipping > Jessie). The upgrade worked on one of them, although I ran into > errors and had to run "apt-get -f install" a few times, but that > resolved the issues a

Re: Error while upgrading from Wheezy to Stretch

2018-04-11 Thread deloptes
David Parker wrote: > Any ideas or suggestions for resolving this will be greatly appreciated. it is definitely less effort to upgrade to jessie and then to stretch - it just takes a bit more time, but less effort in debugging. can you reinstall or configure bsdmainutils? or purge man and bsdmai