Remove obsolete packages?

18 packages are going to be removed.

Continue [yN] Details [d]y

… (lots of removals…)

Processing triggers for man-db …
Processing triggers for libc6 …
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place

System upgrade is complete.

Restart required

To finish the upgrade, a restart is required.
If you select ‘y’ the system will be restarted.

Continue [yN] y

Broadcast message from root@deskhost (/dev/pts/0) at 21:24 …

The system is going down for reboot NOW!
root@deskhost:~# Connection to deskhost.net closed by remote host.
Connection to deskhost.net closed.

And we’re Done!

Now the big test – does it reboot cleanly?

joe@STUDIO:~$ ssh root@deskhost.net
root@deskhost.net‘s password:
Linux deskhost 2.6.28-11-server #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 02:45:36 UTC 2009 x86_64

The programs included with the Ubuntu system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

Ubuntu comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by
applicable law.

To access official Ubuntu documentation, please visit:
http://help.ubuntu.com/
Last login: Wed Apr 29 18:14:41 2009 from …

root@deskhost:~#
root@deskhost:~# uname -a
Linux deskhost 2.6.28-11-server #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 02:45:36 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@deskhost:~#

Yes!

We’re done.

j

Checking package manager
Reading package lists: Done
jaunty-security/multiverse Packages: 98
Reading state information: Done

Calculating the changes

Do you want to start the upgrade?

1 package is going to be removed. 65 new packages are going to be
installed. 444 packages are going to be upgraded.

You have to download a total of 204M. This download will take about 2
minutes with your connection.

Fetching and installing the upgrade can take several hours. Once the
download has finished, the process cannot be cancelled.

Continue [yN] Details [d]

So, after a while longer of downloading and unpacking…

Continue [yN] y

Starting additional sshd

To make recovery in case of failure easier, an additional sshd will
be started on port ’9004′. If anything goes wrong with the running
ssh you can still connect to the additional one.

Reading package lists: Done
Reading state information: Done
Reading state information: Done
Reading state information: Done
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security Release.gpg
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid Release.gpg
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates Release.gpg

… (lots of downloads skipped…)

root@deskhost:~# apt-get -s dist-upgrade
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Calculating upgrade… Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

So, after a little research, the new & better way to upgrade Ubuntu Server is with do-release-upgrade, which is a commandline version of update-manager, which does a few more things, and more intelligently, than just a simple dist-upgrade used to.

https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/serverguide/C/installing-upgrading.html

Here we go:

root@deskhost:~# do-release-upgrade
Checking for a new ubuntu release
Done Upgrade tool signature
Done Upgrade tool
Done downloading
extracting ‘jaunty.tar.gz’
authenticate ‘jaunty.tar.gz’ against ‘jaunty.tar.gz.gpg’

Reading cache

Checking package manager

Continue running under SSH?

This session appears to be running under ssh. It is not recommended
to perform a upgrade over ssh currently because in case of failure it
is harder to recover.

If you continue, a additional ssh daemon will be started at port
’9004′.
Do you want to continue?

Continue [yN] y

Nice – it starts an extra ssh server in case something goes wrong.

http://www.desqhost.com is now being upgraded to Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04

Our vMachine build infrastructure can now create preconfigured Ubuntu 9.04 VM’s with all our various builds preinstalled – that way they start with less diskspace and more for YOU –

j