Solved, maybe (was: Re: Help updating a Jessie installation to Jessie LTS)
On Saturday, March 30, 2019 04:12:05 PM rh kramer wrote:
> 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.
Things might be OK. Things I did:
* googled for errorackage -- found some pages but not much help -- some
pages gave long lists of instructions to try, but it sounded more like a
shotgun approach than any real knowledge based thing. Some people thought it
meant a hardware bus error, some thought some kind of memory problem (hardware
or not), others just suggested commands to try -- maybe there is a better page
out there that I didn't find
* Aside: what the heck does errorackage mean / stand for and what is it
telling me? Who came up with that "word"?
* I edited sources.list to get rid of the jessie-updates (I don't think
that did anything significant with respect to the errorackage error)
* I did a df and found /boot and /var close to full, I examined /var
expecting to find a lot of space used for the apt archives, but instead there
was a bunch of stuff (in /var/tmp as opposed to /var/cache/apt/archives)
related to mkinit... (I'm writing from a different computer, so I couldn't copy
and paste) -- something like over 1.5 GB -- deleted all that, then did:
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
That seemed to work pretty well, I mean, it seemed to install everything
except the new linux kernel which was held back.
tried:
apt-get dist-upgrade
Found a message in there that said a partition / filesystem was out of space --
/var looked ok, so cleared out some space in /boot by deleting an old kernel
(something like n.n.n -04)
tried
apt-get dist-upgrade
This time saw a message that it didn't work and suggested that I try apt-get
-f install <and then, presumably, a packagename>
instead, I tried
apt-get -f dist-upgrade
That seemed to work, so things may be ok -- I guess I'll have to watch the
system for a while and think about rebooting (to put the new kernel in
service).
>
> 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/Package
> s 404 Not Found [IP: 151.101.56.204 80]
>
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-updates/contrib/binary-amd64/Pack
> ages 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/Pac
> kages 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:~#
> </quote>
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