On Tue, 2019-12-31 at 16:30 +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 01:52:54PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> > At some point between 16:00Z and 17:00Z today I'm going to upgrade
> > the rescue VM¹ image from Debian 9 (stretch, oldstable) to Debian
> > 10
> > (buster, stable).
> >
> > This will only take a few seconds, but as the rescue VM is an
> > NFS-mounted squashfs image, replacing the image will prevent all
> > currently running copies of the rescue VM from functioning.
>
> This has now happened.
>
> If you have an instance of the rescue VM running from before, it
> will now be throwing I/O errors and be very unhappy. You should:
>
> 1) Go back to the Xen Shell menu (either by doing ctrl-a then c to
> create a new window, or else using ctrl-] to exit the console)
> and use the "destroy" command to kill it.
>
> 2) Exit completely out of the Xen Shell (repeatedly do ctrl-d, or
> type "exit") and log back in to it again; you should see version
> v1.48bitfolk56 when you log in.
>
> 3) Type "rescue" again to boot a new instance.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
> _____________
It never ceases to amaze me how Andy can provide 24/7 all hours every
day of the year 5-star support and maintenance.
(I hope I am forgiven to suspect a 50-people strong support team, all
called "Andy" :) )
Thank you!!
Conrad
