root@deskhost:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04
Codename: natty
root@deskhost:~#

root@deskhost:~# uptime
13:57:16 up 196 days, 14:07, 1 user, load average: 1.76, 1.63, 1.24
root@deskhost:~#

Time to upgrade the eracks dev Django server from 9.10 to (at least) 10.04

root@deskhost:~# uptime
15:55:12 up 97 days, 44 min, 1 user, load average: 0.34, 0.23, 0.09

root@django-11-x86:/usr/local/src# uptime
10:21:44 up 154 days, 12:08, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.06

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root@ubuntu:~# uptime
14:52:13 up 238 days, 16:15, 2 users, load average: 0.03, 0.04, 0.01
root@ubuntu:~#

root@rails:~# uptime
22:37:00 up 213 days, 5 min, 1 user, load average: 0.15, 0.03, 0.01
root@rails:~#

Switch plugs to add a new APC we-enabled power strip:

root@deskhost:~# uptime
17:26:39 up 219 days, 21:01, 1 user, load average: 1.01, 1.01, 1.00

root@django-11-x86:~# uptime
21:33:45 up 183 days, 1:28, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
root@django-11-x86:~#

So let’s go:

apt-get dist-upgrade

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
linux-image-2.6.27-15-virtual
The following packages will be upgraded:
apache2-doc apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils apache2.2-common apt apt-utils busybox-initramfs ca-certificates console-setup
cpp-4.3 curl dash dhcp3-client dhcp3-common dpkg dpkg-dev file g++-4.3 gcc-4.3 gcc-4.3-base git-core initramfs-tools irb1.8
libapr1 libaprutil1 libc6 libc6-dev libc6-i686 libcurl3 libcurl3-gnutls libfreetype6 libgcc1 libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-data
libgnutls26 libgomp1 libldap-2.4-2 libmagic1 libneon27-gnutls libnewt0.52 libopenssl-ruby1.8 libpam-modules libpam-runtime
libpam0g libpq-dev libpq5 libreadline-ruby1.8 libruby1.8 libsasl2-2 libsasl2-modules libsqlite3-0 libssl-dev libssl0.9.8
libstdc++6 libstdc++6-4.3-dev libsvn1 libvolume-id0 libx11-6 libx11-data libxml2 linux-image-virtual linux-libc-dev login
ntpdate openssl passwd perl perl-base perl-modules python-crypto rdoc1.8 ruby1.8 sqlite3 subversion sudo tasksel tasksel-data
tzdata udev vim-common vim-tiny wget whiptail xkb-data
84 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 71.7MB of archives.
After this operation, 30.6MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?


Go, baby!

So now, after a reboot, it’s just:

apt-get install update-manager-core
sudo do-release-upgrade

And after about 10 minutes, and one more reboot, it’s DONE.

-bash-3.2# uptime
4:02PM up 326 days, 19:09, 2 users, load averages: 2.09, 2.06, 2.01
-bash-3.2# uname -a
OpenBSD fw1.librehost.com 4.2 GENERIC#375 i386
-bash-3.2#

-bash-3.2# uptime
5:01PM up 326 days, 18:37, 1 user, load averages: 2.14, 2.08, 2.01
-bash-3.2# uname -a
OpenBSD fw2.librehost.com 4.2 GENERIC#375 i386
-bash-3.2#

root@librehost-h64:~# uptime
16:19:37 up 64 days, 18:30, 2 users, load average: 0.60, 0.65, 0.63
root@librehost-h64:~#

root@deskhost:~# uptime
16:20:58 up 32 days, 20:24, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00
root@deskhost:~#