Questions tagged [dist-upgrade]
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Oracle Linux Kernel cannot be set after OS upgrade
we have two physical machines running Oracle Linux and I was tasked to upgrade them from OL 7.9 to 8.10.
I already did this on the 5 OL VMs we have and it worked fine. The upgrade on the first ...
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Leapp for Oracle Linux 7 to Oracle Linux 9 does not work
I am trying to Upgrade from Oracle Linux 7 to Oracle Linux 8. It does not work at all. I tried to solve dependecies issue by myself. Now I am stucked. I have this error code:
Warning: Packages marked ...
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How Can I Bypass the Btrfs Check When Using Leapp to Upgrade from CentOS 7 to Oracle Linux with UEK Kernel?
I'm attempting to upgrade a CentOS 7 system to Oracle Linux using the Leapp upgrade tool. My system uses Btrfs, and Leapp inhibits the upgrade because of this. However, the UEK kernel from Oracle ...
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Migrating from Debian 11 to 12, the sudo apt dist-upgrade finishes on a message: 'unknown directive "set_by_lua"' from nginx
I am upgrading a VM at work, from Debian 11 to 12.
I succeed up to the sudo apt-get dist-upgrade, where it fails on:
Setting up nginx (1.22.1-9) ...
Job for nginx.service failed because the control ...
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Pass Enter key to dist-upgrade's prompt, running inside a GUI terminal on a remote machine, accessible henceforth only over SSH
I earlier had RDP access to a remote machine (a typical physical desktop PC) using which I launched a sudo apt dist-upgrade inside a GUI gnome-terminal. Since then I have lost the RDP connection and ...
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Debian 12 linux-image-6.1.0-18-amd64 dist-upgrade fails on nvidia GPL-incompatible module nvidia.ko uses GPL-only symbol '__rcu_read_lock'
I ran an apt-get upgrade and an apt-get dist-upgrade on a new update notified today for Debian 12.
The last one is failing with this message, and can see later that it involves NVidia driver (I use ...
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Does Linux Mint have a direct upgrade like Ubuntu
Does Linux Mint have a direct upgrade without a clean install with an USB?
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KDE Neon Upgrade to 22.04 Fails Due to Unofficial Package Issues
I'm facing an issue while trying to upgrade my KDE Neon system to version 22.04. The upgrade process halts with an error message suggesting an issue with unofficial packages. Here is the essence of ...
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Upgrade from latest version
Let me first apologize if the question itself is… stupid. Can I upgrade from a latest version, in this case openSuse LEAP 15.5? How problematic it would be, or which would be the consequences?
I ...
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Huge number of packages are about to be deleted after Debian upgrade, how to check list in text mode?
I am about to upgrade from Debian 11 to 12. I pressed Ctrl+Alt+F3 and entered text mode to ensure a smooth upgrade.
Update & Upgrade system
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt upgrade
Edit /etc/apt/...
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How to create an entire backup of a disk to fall back to before performing a dist-upgrade?
I am preparing a dist-upgrade. Before I do that I want to make a backup of my entire disk so that even if the upgrade fails I can fall back to a backup. I have two SSDs, /dev/nvme0n1 which is the ...
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Debian upgrade failed - now locked out of sudo
I was trying to upgrade a VPS from Buster to Bookworm.
I followed these steps:
44 20/Aug - 21:26:11 sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
45 20/Aug - 21:26:38 sudo apt --purge ...
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After upgrading to Debian 12, duplicated files in /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ and /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
I just upgraded my system from Debian 11 to 12, by following this guide from cyberciti. This system has been kept up-to-date for more than 9 years, so it has been through at least 4 major upgrades (...
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Stuck at boot, no GUI, login on tty not possible after upgrade to Debian 12
I upgraded my system to Debian 12, but I cannot login any more after I rebooted when the package installation seemed to be completed. The login prompt (on tty) tells me login incorrect after typing ...
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apt Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution)
i was tring to update Debian with the instruction
https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#upgrade-process
All going well but when i ran
apt full-upgrade
ssh ...
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