On Mon 04 Oct 2021 at 21:16:06 (-0400), Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Monday 04 October 2021 07:55:25 pm David Wright wrote:
> > It would help people trying to follow what you are doing just to confirm at > > each stage which version you're now running. > > I /think/ you've got as far as stretch. > > Yes, I wanted to get the issues that I was seeing resolved before I went > ahead and proceeded with the rest of the upgrades. At this point I've copied > things from the laptop (which got very flaky on me) back to the workstation > and I am doing my mail there, like I used to. The font is too damn small, > though. > > > So the main things to confirm as working are the specific points mentioned > > in the respective Release Notes. In stretch that would > > be, for example, the 4.9 kernel is finding everything, > > About the only issue that I've noticed after this stuff all getting fixed is > that there's something up with the sound. Given the details of what advice I > saw someone else getting, I have a few things to look at. The virtualbox OS > complained about it too. :-) I can't see the point unless you depend on, say, a screen reader to be able to move forward at all. After all, how long are you intending to run stretch for? > > that X may be running as a user (rather than root) on the console it's > > started from, > > I'm not sure I see the concern here. An issue that caught some people out was finding the X server log, as it had to move out of /var/log/ (users don't have permission), and into a "hidden" directory, ~/.local/share/xorg/. Running root-owned applications is different, and you can get permissions problems with opening devices. Unusual though. > > and that your ethernet or wireless connectivity is still good. (Changes > > were made to the kernel device naming.) > > Ethernet is working fine here, as evidenced by the fact that I'm moving lots > of data back and forth (32GB for this virtualbox stuff ferinstance) and that > I'm doing my mail on this system now. If there had been any issues with that > I sure would've been jumping all over it, as I tend to use networking rather > heavily. And there is no wireless on this machine. > > > Those are just a few I recall, but note they all relate to the OS rather > > than details in configuring third-party applications. > > Once that's done, time to read the next set of Release Notes. Note that > > even things like the best tool (apt-get or aptitude) to > > upgrade with may vary from release to release which, remember, are normally > > separated by a couple of years of tool development. > > I saw a couple of references that stated that aptitude had been recommeded > earlier but that apt was now a better choice. Yes, I think apt is recommended for an interactive upgrade. > So we'll see how it goes from here. My upgrade path for this step went like > this: > > apt-get autoremove > edit the sources.list file replacing jessie with stretch > apt-get update > apt-get upgrade > apt-get dist-upgrade > > And then reboot, and see how well things work. Or maybe reboot a couple of > times... Yes, apt-get was recommended for upgrading to stretch. Note however that if you perform your next upgrades with apt, as recommended, some of the command names (like dist-upgrade) will differ in apt. > We'll see how it goes. Good luck. Cheers, David.
