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I cant upgrade anything
I will give a bit of a back story to how I got this issue, The first issue I has was I have a full /boot disk and could not do anything. I moved some of the unused config files to another disk and ...
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Is it safe to upgrade my production server from 11.04 to 12.04 LTS?
Two years ago I installed Ubuntu 11.04 on my server when I was first setting it up.
I just noticed that 11.04 is no longer supported (hasn't been since October), so I want to upgrade my server to an ...
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Upgrade MySQL server issue
I failed to upgrade MySQL server. Here's what I tried:
I first issue this command to update the package list:
sudo apt-get update
Then, upgrade by:
sudo apt-get upgrade
It shows the following ...
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Upgrade ubuntu server from 12.04.2 to 13.04 [duplicate]
I have production server with Ubuntu 12.04.2 X64 OS and I want to upgrade it into 13.04. After some research I've found this command do-release-upgrade -d AFAIK this switches update routine into ...
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Ubuntu Server 12.10 -> 13.04 Upgrade & MDADM Raid Arrary
Now that 13.04 is out - i am looking to upgrade my home server (test rig) to have a play. Just wondering what effect running
do-release-upgrade
Would have on my MDADM raid array? Would it survive ...
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Wrong Ubuntu Server Version displayed [closed]
I upgraded my Ubuntu Server from 12.10 to 13.04, from command line with 'do-release-upgrade' . All process worked great and after the server reboot it works normally.
The only problem I have is the ...
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13.04 Upgrade Options from Terminal
I will be upgrading a production server from 12.10 to 13.04 from the terminal. I encountered issues upgrading my notebook which resulted in uninstalling PostgreSQL 9.2 (full details here). This ...
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Release upgrade notification after upgrade completed
I've upgraded my ubuntu server to the 13.04 release. Unfortunately during the upgrade process I lost the connection to the server and the server hasn't completed correctly the upgrade to this release.
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Can not upgrade Ubuntu server to 13.04 using command line
I am trying to upgrade ubuntu server from 12.10 to 13.04 using command line.
I get the follow error when I do this command "sudo do-release-upgrade -d":
$ sudo do-release-upgrade -d
Checking for a ...
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Ubuntu Server continues to want to upgrade after already fully upgrading
I upgraded my servers from 12.10 to 13.04 via SSH session.
All upgrades for each box were successful except for one, which failed to boot after rebooting (faulty harddrive it turns out).
After ...
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I am having an error and my mouse cursor is disappearing randomly after an update
I just updated my system and it was asking me to restart it to complete the installation of packages I was just going to restart suddenly the electricity was cutoff and now it is giving the following ...
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How can I change the download server for updates? [duplicate]
I continuously failed to upgrade my Ubuntu from 11.04 to 12.04.
I tried running these commands:
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get update
do-release-upgrade
But none of them work.
The error they ...
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do-release-upgrade (12.04-12.10) fails with fatal error (can't start sshd??)
I have a 12.04 server (running on amazon aws). I want to upgrade it to 12.10.
The command do-release-upgrade warns me that since I am connecting over ssh (I have no choice in this), a separate sshd ...
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aptitude upgrade linux 3.2.0-39 problem
since yesterday I am trying to upgrade my system to the latest version. I am using Ubuntu Server 12.04.2 LTS. The strangest thing happens when I try to upgrade my system. Here is the output of ...
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10.04 -> 12.04 Upgrade . Server. do-release-upgrade fail. What sources to change
I am current trying to upgrade a ubuntu server via ssh. I am stuck since i can not perform a do-release-upgrade. It tries maverick instead of trying 12.04
Essentially I think he is failing because ...
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How to upgrade default tomcat version to latest apache tomcat version with 12.04
I installed tomcat7 through apt-get install tomcat7. The current supported version is 7.0.26.
This installs tomcat in a bunch of folders as diverse as:
/etc/tomcat7
/etc/init.d/tomcat7 (it's a ...
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Grub fails to update, apt ignores hold on package
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
It's also an EC2 Instance
$ apt-mark showhold
grub-pc
Today I've ran apt-get upgrade and ...
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How do I access NTFS partitions from Ubuntu after upgrading from Windows server 2008?
After having my own server at home for a year now I am ready to take the step and replace my windows server 2008 environment with Ubuntu.
My server's hard drive is partitioned into three partitions, ...
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Can Ubuntu Server 10.04.4 LTS be upgraded to NON-LTS?
I have a server running Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS. Can I upgrade this distribution to precise LTS, then from there, convert to non-LTS releases?
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How can I stop unattended-upgrades from rebooting the machine?
I just had a look at my Amazon EC2 instance and noticed I had 20 minutes exactly of downtime. I didn't know what caused it so I logged in to SSH and tried upgrading my packages, and saw that the ...
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E:sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
I'm doing an upgrade with sudo apt-get upgrade
After I press Enter:
do you want to continue [y/n]? y
dedconf: apt-extracttemplates failed:No such file or directory
extracting templates from ...
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Upgrade Ubuntu Server from 11.04 to 11.10 without internet connection
We have application software that really likes Ubuntu Server 11.10. I need to upgrade several 11.04 servers to this version. Two questions:
The servers that need to be upgraded do not have Internet ...
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Prevent Apache restarting automatically after upgrading packages
Following on from an earlier question: Is there a way to download security updates and notify admin without installing the update?
A large number of packages interact with Apache (especially PHP) ...
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Is there a way to download security updates and notify admin without installing the update?
We use apt to download and install security updates on our production server, and most of the time this works well for us. However, this morning, our server downloaded an update, installed the ...
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Upgrade Ubuntu Server 10.04 on a PIII 800/256Mb
I'm using Ubuntu Server on an old PIII 800MHz with 256MB of RAM as a home server in text mode. It's currently running 10.04 perfectly and recently I've been proposed to 'do-release-upgrade' up to ...
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Upgrade to 12.10 fails with grub fatal error
After upgrading to server 12.10 grub is complaining, and thus no boot.
Boot-repair and all other solution fail because for some reason grub-install can not read /boot/grub from my lvm system disk.
I ...
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How to find out where the “grub” is installed
My Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS asking me during "apt-get dist-upgrade" where to install "GRUB" update. So how i can simply found out which partition/disc is the proper answer? I mean how to found out ...
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Enabling unattended-upgrades from a shell script
I have a shell script to automatically configure new Ubuntu virtual machines for my purposes. I would like this script to install and enable unattended-upgrades, but I cannot figure out how to do so ...
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PhpMyAdmin shows warning: PHP MySQL library version 5.0.51a differs from your MySQL server version 5.5.24
Installed Mysql on Ubuntu 12.04 Server via
apt-get install mysql-server
from default sources.list. Than uploaded new Phpmyadmin version shows warning:
Your PHP MySQL library version 5.0.51a ...
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Where should I be looking/learning about the changes between Ubuntu (server) editions?
I maintain a few Ubuntu servers and it works great... but, I now have notifications on a few that state there is a new release available and I should run do-release-upgrade.
Since these servers were ...
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“do-release-upgrade -d” doesn't prompt for update
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 server and I would like to place that PC for testing purposes so moving to 12.10 server but I am unable to do that. I am doing this in a VM, so I can't copy/paste the text ...
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Failed server upgrade to 12.04 (RAID 1 needs to be mounted)
I attempted to update my headless server to Precise Pangolin 12.04 restarted the box and get error message "kernel panic not syncing vfs unable to mount root fs on unknown block oo swapper not ...
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Is the upgrade server working? Im upgrading from 8.10 to 9.04 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to install software or upgrade from old unsupported release?
Is the upgrade server working? Im upgrading from 8.10 to 9.04 and it says "extracting the upgrade ...
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Problem upgrading 11.10 Server to 12.04 LTS
I'm experiencing some problems with upgrading Ubuntu 11.10 Server to 12.04 LTS
I have changed the release-upgrades files to prompt=lts but the do-release-upgrade -d doesn't work.
How can I fix that? ...
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lucid 10.04 LTS => Precise 12.04.1 : upgrade doesn't work
I googled and looked into all known issues on ubuntu forums related to distribution upgrade but I can't figure out why a 10.04 LTS server won't detect the last LTS 12.04.1. I guess since 12.04 is a ...
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Server problems after upgrade
I have an Ubuntu 12.04 server at home. It was working fine utile yesterday when I did an apt-get upgrade.
First problem : grub timeout is disabled. Bootup hangs on grub.
Second problem : the ...
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Should I first configure my new Ubuntu Server install before updating it?
I'm courious if there is any recommendation to configure fresh Ubuntu Server (date, hosts, networking) before "apt-get upgrade" or there is no difference?
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why is apt-get not install mysql server 5.5
I have mysql server 5.1 installed. I want to update it to 5.5 . I took a back up and uninstalled 5.1 using this command
sudo apt-get --purge remove mysql-server*
when I again used apt to install ...
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While upgrading from 11.10 to 12.04, can't generate initramfs
I am trying to upgrade my Ubuntu server from Oneiric to Precise (64-bits) with do-release-upgrade. The upgrade is going alright up to the point where it starts generating the ramfs. After starting, it ...
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Upgrading to Ubuntu 12.04 gives “no package: header” [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I fix a “Problem with MergeList” error when trying to do an update?
I tried to upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04 stable and when I did it is gives me this ...
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Why does apt give me a “Dynamic MMap ran out of room” error when trying to upgrade 6.06 LTS?
I need to update serveral remote ubuntu servers running 6.06 (even LTS isn't that long). They are all at different remote locations. I would like to at least have a shot at upgrading without the ...
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Lucid hangs at booting after kernel upgrade
This weekend, one of our servers running Lucid has installed some upgrades:
libgcrypt11 1.4.4-5ubuntu2.1
linux-firmware 1.34.14
linux-image-2.6.32-41-generic 2.6.32-41.91
linux-libc-dev 2.6.32-41.91
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How can I update from 10.04 to 11.04 (including Plymouth) on a virtual server?
I'm unable to upgrade. Every time I try the boot process gets stuck in Plymouth.
It's a virtual server, so no graphics and no grub either. How can I solve this problem?
Thanks,
Pete
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Upgrading a live 8.04 LTS server to More uptodate version
Running Apache, MySQL, PHP with Moodle 1.9.9 running as a school based CMS.
All possible updates for 8.04 have been applied.
Moodle 2.x from Versions 2.1 onwards needs Php version 5.3.2 which is ...
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Why does upgrading to 12.04 on an OpenVZ VPS warn that the kernel size is 0?
When I tried to upgrade my server to ubuntu 12.04, it gave this message, but the upgrade process will continue :
WARNING:root:estimate_kernel_size_in_boot() returned '0'?
This is a VPS server on ...
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1answer
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How can I upgrade nginx after adding ppa:nginx/development?
I've installed nginx via the ppa stable repository via
add-apt-repository ppa:nginx
apt-get install nginx
which adds the stable release. But now I'd like to switch to the development ...
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1answer
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Courier won't start because /usr/sbin/pop3d doesn't exist
My courier-pop and courier-imap servers won't start. I'm using an old Ubuntu 6.06 box. I did an apt-get update and apt-get upgrade 2 days ago, which may have messed things up (there were a few ...
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Is it good practice to backport source packages from newer Ubuntu releases?
My plan is like this:
Say I'm running 12.04 LTS, life is good, but its packages guadually become old. Then 12.10 is out, I add a deb-src line in my sources.list, and backport (download source, build, ...
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system hangs after upgrade to 10.04 [closed]
I upgraded my system from 9.04 to 9.10 using the procedure here: Skipping intermediate Ubuntu OS upgrade to latest one,How do I upgrade from 9.04 to 10.04.2?
then proceeded to upgrade to 10.04. After ...
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Upgrade path for Jaunty Server?
I have a very old installation of Jaunty that I would like to eventually get up to the current version of Ubuntu LTS.
I cannot do the normal network upgrades, as there is no continued support for ...
