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From: Keith Williams <keithwilliamsnp@???>
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2019 at 14:57
Subject: Re: [bitfolk] The forthcoming Debian 10.0 (buster) release
To: Hugo Mills <hugo-bf@???>
I was reading in the pages and pages of guidance notes that there can be a
problem with entropy starvation, even to the extent of SSH not working
properly. Debian recommend doing a lot of pings as soon as you can to build
up the entropy. Of course, how you do that during an install is another
matter...
Keith
On Sun, 7 Jul 2019 at 14:06, Hugo Mills <hugo-bf@???> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 07, 2019 at 01:55:46PM +0100, Keith Williams wrote:
> > Well I have done the upgrade on one VPS. Preparation including backing up
> > all db and /etc/ plus one or two other "just in case" files and
> > uninstalling packages that were never installed from official archives 3
> or
> > 4 hours, upgrade itself few minutes, sorting out problems all the rest of
> > the morning.
> > Problems encountered:-
> > Bind. Over several upgrades I have always kept the old config files. It
> > seems that some ancient deprecated options now throw an error not a
> > warning. systemctl start followed by journalctl -xe details all the
> > problems, even the line numbers in the files so it was a matter of
> minutes
> > to fix
> > Wireguard still seems to need the unstable repository, so changing that
> > back it all worked, the conf file was still there so OK, same could not
> be
> > said of NFTables, had to reload conf file from back up.
> > Then the 3 bigger ones:-
> > Roundcube. During install it said it had to reconfigure the database. I
> > will have to purge, drop that database and reinstall from scratch
> > unfortunately
> > Dovecot. My initial setting up, a few years back took ages (I was
> learning
> > as I went) so I said no to replacing conf files. Had same problem as with
> > Bind, setting which before led to a warning, now stop it from starting.
> > Same trick as before and only one setting to change. The error message
> even
> > tells you what to change it to. I should have heeded the warnings before.
> > But it does mean that although Dovecot is delivering the mail to the
> boxes,
> > I am unable to log onto Postfix as it uses Dovecot to verify credentials.
> > But then my webmail uses Roundcube so I can't get at that mail at the
> > moment anyway
> > Webmin. I use this as a graphical interface when working with big
> databases
> > or updating and cleaning up all my zonefiles. It's just easier. Handy for
> > editing Apache virtual host files. I was able to install it and start it
> > then the connection drops to the miniserv server. I think it is related
> to
> > an upgrading of the perl libraries in the upgrade. Did not have the same
> > with my home boxes a couple of weeks ago. That is non urgent though.
> > Hopefully some lessons learnt so mistakes won't be repeated during
> upgrade
> > of my other VPS tomorrow. Most of these irritations would probably not
> have
> > arisen if I had cleaned up the conf files beforehand.
> > Hope there is something useful there for anyone else upgrading
>
> I'm doing a reinstall from scratch on a new VPS. So far, I haven't
> hit anything awkward (other than not knowing how to set up nginx -- I
> decided to switch from Apache).
>
> My only real issue so far is that writing random data to the 250
> GiB encrypted archive-storage volume took about 6 hours. I'm not sure
> if that's entropy starvation on the randomness, very slow storage, or
> slow CPU doing the encryption. I was doing it in the installer, so I
> didn't have much leeway to investigate deeper.
>
> Hugo.
>
> > Keith
> >
> > On Sat, 6 Jul 2019 at 00:16, Andy Smith <andy@???> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Debian 10 (buster) is supposed to be released later today. Those who
> > > wish to upgrade to it in the usual Debian way should be able to do
> > > so after reading the release notes for any gotchas:
> > >
> > > https://www.debian.org/releases/testing/amd64/release-notes/
> > >
> > > I am not aware of any gotchas that are specific to the BitFolk
> > > environment, but if you think you have found one please do let us
> > > know.
> > >
> > > If planning a clean install, the "buster" release has been available
> > > for some time in our Xen Shell, but under the code name
> > > "debian_testing", because right now it still is technically the
> > > testing release.
> > >
> > > If you issue the command:
> > >
> > > xen shell> install debian_testing
> > >
> > > now or at any time after the release of Debian 10 then I believe
> > > this should result in a working install of Debian 10. I just tested
> > > it with a minimal install (base system + openssh) and it seems to
> > > (still) work.
> > >
> > > It may be several days after the release before we can get around to
> > > updating the labels in the Xen Shell so that "debian_buster" is there
> > > and "debian_testing" gets you "bullseye". It does tell you what it's
> > > going to install so there should be no confusion.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Andy
> > >
>
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