Comments on How To Upgrade A Debian Etch System (Server & Desktop) To Debian Lenny

Hi Raymond

If you are using VMware to run Lenny I suggest editing your vmx config file of the virtual machine and change

scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"

to 

scsi0.virtualDev = "buslogic"

Reboot and enjoy!

From the debian documentation: http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html

The recommended way to upgrade from previous Debian GNU/Linux releases is to use the package management tool aptitude. This program makes safer decisions about package installations than running apt-get directly.

Works perfect for me, i do it trough ssh.

 Just a little worried after reboot, the machine takes 15 minutes to come back online but after that all works fine.

 Thanks!

Etch to Lenny upgrade worked perfectly for me.

I used apt-get dist-upgrade, just use what you prefer.

I have upgraded without changing stable to etch.

Just:

#aptitude update
#aptitude upgrade
reboot

#aptitude dist-upgrade

reboot

Everything works fine.

Thank you to Debian's great developers for doing such a great job.
And of course, thanks a lot to Falko for this guide. It was concise and clear.
Best regards.

Just upgraded my ispconfig2 old trusty etch server. Worked like a dream! I don't seem to need to do any post-configuration (kept the customised config files). More tweaks may be needed, but mail and web services are back online within a half hour! Why do I choose to do these things on Friday afternoon. Thanks for giving me a weekend Falko!

On ISPconfig2 server after updating from etch to lenny, mail authentification gets broken:

postfix/smtpd[25111]: warning: SASL authentication failure: cannot connect to saslauthd server: Permission denied

to fix this,  add the postfix user to the sasl group

adduser postfix sasl

/etc/init.d/postfix restart
/etc/init.d/saslauthd restart

Thanks a million for this tip, I had to do an emergency upgrade from Etch to Lenny and was getting the SASL Authentication failured. This fixed it for me. to fix this, add the postfix user to the sasl group adduser postfix sasl /etc/init.d/postfix restart /etc/init.d/saslauthd restart

Why not apt-get dist-upgrade?

I followed this tutorial on a Debian Etch server. The lenny kernel would not boot the root filesystem afterwards. The boot procedure halted. However the older kernel still boots fine.

 I thought it was a grub issue, but the disk configurations look identical (dev/sda1)

Thanks for the hint blocker =).

I've followed the instructions given here and they seemd to work but after rebooting and checking #uname -r gives 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686 while #cat /etc/debian_version gives 5.0 ! So the kernel isn't uppgraded