I already made an attempt, and I'm a little worried that I may have messed things up -- I'd like to try to recover and get back to a reliable Jessie system.
What I did and why:
I understood from some other posts on the list that the mirrored repositories for Wheezy and Jessie went away in early March, so (for Jessie) I found a post that told me what the content of /etc/apt/sources.list should be for Jessie LTS.
I then ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade below are the results.
I think I know how to fix one part of the problem -- I think I need to remove the references to jessie-updates from the sources.list file. But, I'm fairly sure that won't solve what looks to me like the bigger problem:
root@s31:~# apt-get upgrade
Bus errorackage lists... 1%
root@s31:~#
Oh, an extra credit question: are there mirrors I can use for Jessie LTS or must I use
debian.org? If there are mirrors I can use, where would I find those?
Here is what I put in the sources.list file:
from an email: On 2019-03-26, Pierre Fourès <
pierre.foures@gmail.com> wrote:
...
For Jessie LTS "/etc/apt/sources.list should look like this one:"
deb
http://deb.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
deb-src
http://deb.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
deb
http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src
http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
deb
http://deb.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src
http://deb.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free
Here are the results I got from running apt-get update and then apt-get upgrade:
<quote>
root@s31:~# apt-get update
Ign
http://deb.debian.org jessie InRelease
Hit
http://security.debian.org jessie/updates InRelease
Ign
http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates InRelease
Get:1
http://deb.debian.org jessie Release.gpg [2,420 B]
Ign
http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates Release.gpg
Get:2
http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main Sources [305 kB]
Get:3
http://deb.debian.org jessie Release [148 kB]
Hit
http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/contrib Sources
Hit
http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/non-free Sources
Get:4
http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main amd64 Packages [664 kB]
Ign
http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates Release
Get:5
http://deb.debian.org jessie/main Sources [7,063 kB]
Hit
http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/contrib amd64 Packages
Hit
http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/non-free amd64 Packages
Hit
http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/contrib Translation-en
Get:6
http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main Translation-en [335 kB]
Hit
http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/non-free Translation-en
Get:7
http://deb.debian.org jessie/contrib Sources [50.4 kB]
Get:8
http://deb.debian.org jessie/non-free Sources [99.2 kB]
Get:9
http://deb.debian.org jessie/main amd64 Packages [6,818 kB]
Get:10
http://deb.debian.org jessie/contrib amd64 Packages [49.8 kB]
Get:11
http://deb.debian.org jessie/non-free amd64 Packages [83.2 kB]
Get:12
http://deb.debian.org jessie/contrib Translation-en [38.3 kB]
Get:13
http://deb.debian.org jessie/main Translation-en [4,581 kB]
Get:14
http://deb.debian.org jessie/non-free Translation-en [72.0 kB]
Err
http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/main Sources
Err
http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/main Sources
Err
http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib Sources
Err
http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/non-free Sources
Err
http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 Packages
Err
http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib amd64 Packages
Err
http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/non-free amd64 Packages
Err
http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/main Sources
Err
http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/main Sources
Err
http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib Sources
Err
http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/non-free Sources
Err
http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 Packages
Err
http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib amd64 Packages
Err
http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/non-free amd64 Packages
Err
http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/main Sources
404 Not Found [IP: 151.101.56.204 80]
Err
http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib Sources
404 Not Found [IP: 151.101.56.204 80]
Err
http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/non-free Sources
404 Not Found [IP: 151.101.56.204 80]
Err
http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 Packages
404 Not Found [IP: 151.101.56.204 80]
Err
http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib amd64 Packages
404 Not Found [IP: 151.101.56.204 80]
Err
http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/non-free amd64 Packages
404 Not Found [IP: 151.101.56.204 80]
Ign
http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib Translation-en_US
Ign
http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib Translation-en
Ign
http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign
http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/main Translation-en
Ign
http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/non-free Translation-en_US
Ign
http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/non-free Translation-en
Fetched 19.5 MB in 1min 16s (255 kB/s)
W: Failed to fetch
http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-updates/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 151.101.56.204 80]
W: Failed to fetch
http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-updates/contrib/source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 151.101.56.204 80]
W: Failed to fetch
http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-updates/non-free/source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 151.101.56.204 80]
W: Failed to fetch
http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-updates/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 151.101.56.204 80]
W: Failed to fetch
http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-updates/contrib/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 151.101.56.204 80]
W: Failed to fetch
http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-updates/non-free/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 151.101.56.204 80]
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
root@s31:~# apt-get upgrade
Bus errorackage lists... 1%
root@s31:~#
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