{"id":96,"date":"2009-05-30T16:54:18","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T22:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pervasivecode.com\/blog\/?p=96"},"modified":"2009-05-30T16:54:18","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T22:54:18","slug":"ubuntu-jaunty-jackalope-upgrade-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pervasivecode.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/30\/ubuntu-jaunty-jackalope-upgrade-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu 8.10 and 9.04 (Intrepid Ibex and Jaunty Jackalope) upgrade notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m at WordCamp San Francisco<\/a> today and decided that running a year old version of WordPress (on a year old version of Ubuntu Linux<\/a>) was undesirable. So, with the confidence that comes from many relatively easy Ubuntu OS upgrades, I charged ahead. For (I think) the second time ever, things went badly. Here’s what I did and how I fixed it.
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\nFirst, I had to figure out what release of Ubuntu was currently installed:
\nlsb_release -a<\/code><\/p>\n

I was on “hardy”, a.k.a. the Hardy Heron<\/a> release, a.k.a. Ubuntu 8.04 LTS.<\/p>\n

I had not bothered to install Ubuntu 8.10 \/ “Intrepid Ibex”<\/a> because I didn’t have a reason to when it was release. I now wanted to upgrade to Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope”<\/a> which has WordPress<\/a> 2.7.1, the current release (as of today).<\/p>\n

The way to upgrade from 8.04 to 9.04 is to upgrade to 8.10 first. So I did that:<\/p>\n

Intrepid Upgrades: Network Upgrade for Ubuntu Servers<\/a> worked really well. I had to do a little bit of manual file merging as usual (I still don’t understand why dpkg can’t merge changes from the old file into a new file) but that was it. Easy!<\/p>\n

When I rebooted the VPS, it kernel panicked: can’t mount the root filesystem. Oh crap. \/dev\/xvda1 is missing? Really? I told the VPS to hard reboot and it came up fine. But that’s a little scary. (I think this is something more related to my VPS hosting provider than Ubuntu, but I haven’t yet upgraded my laptop VMWare Ubuntu VPS’s yet so I’m not sure.)<\/p>\n

The second stage didn’t go so well. I did the same sort of simple upgrade: the Jaunty Network Upgrade for Ubuntu Servers<\/a> instructions are the same as the ones for Intrepid. Upgrade, edit a couple of config files, reboot. Kernel panic again, same reason, reboot. Should work, right?<\/p>\n

It booted, but had no network access. I was able to log in via my VPS hosting provider’s SSH remote console feature, so I was able to see that \/etc\/init.d\/networking was failing to start. It was the same problem that’s described in Ubuntu 9.04 in an OpenVZ VE<\/a>. Adding that one line to \/etc\/init.d\/networking<\/code> fixed the problem. Reboot, all better.<\/p>\n

So if you’re doing this upgrade on a VPS, make sure you’ve added that little 1-line hack after you do the Jaunty upgrade and before you reboot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m at WordCamp San Francisco today and decided that running a year old version of WordPress (on a year old version of Ubuntu Linux) was undesirable. So, with the confidence that comes from many relatively easy Ubuntu OS upgrades, I charged ahead. For (I think) the second time ever, things went badly. Here’s what I … Continue reading “Ubuntu 8.10 and 9.04 (Intrepid Ibex and Jaunty Jackalope) upgrade notes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,15,3,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-servers","category-ubuntu","category-xen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pervasivecode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pervasivecode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pervasivecode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pervasivecode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pervasivecode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.pervasivecode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"http:\/\/www.pervasivecode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pervasivecode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pervasivecode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pervasivecode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}