[Ltsp-discuss] upgrading from Debian Wheezy (7.0) to Jessie (8.0)

[William Fragakis]

Hi,
A recent post prompted me to begin considering and testing a move from
Wheezy to Jessie.

Current situation is that we are running LTSP off Wheezy 64 bit (server
has 16 gb ram).

Most of our clients are Atom based - require 32 bit - so using i386 for
clients

So far, have tested upgrading a test copy running as a VM. No joy as
log in fails. I did make the edits to sshd_config (KexAlgorithms) but
that didn't seem to help. Logs don't seem to generate much insight
except for a reference to console-kit.

From reading the Debian LTSP wiki, it seems that rebuilding client

images under Jessie won't help because they'll be 64 bit.

Looking for recommendations to upgrading the server that doesn't require "fresh install". This is a working office environment and things need to work every morning at 8 am.

Thanks,
William Fragakis





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[William Fragakis]

My google-fu isn't doing to well today.

Apologies. Just ran across this:
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Jessie/Upgrades

Nonetheless, any experiences, insights, etc appreciated.

Sorry for the noise on the list.

Regards,
William Fragakis.

Post by William Fragakis
Hi,
A recent post prompted me to begin considering and testing a move from
Wheezy to Jessie.
Current situation is that we are running LTSP off Wheezy 64 bit (server
has 16 gb ram).
Most of our clients are Atom based - require 32 bit - so using i386 for
clients
So far, have tested upgrading a test copy running as a VM. No joy as
log in fails. I did make the edits to sshd_config (KexAlgorithms) but
that didn't seem to help. Logs don't seem to generate much insight
except for a reference to console-kit.
From reading the Debian LTSP wiki, it seems that rebuilding client
images under Jessie won't help because they'll be 64 bit.
Looking for recommendations to upgrading the server that doesn't
require "fresh install". This is a working office environment and
things need to work every morning at 8 am.
Thanks,
William Fragakis

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[Vagrant Cascadian]

Post by William Fragakis
A recent post prompted me to begin considering and testing a move from
Wheezy to Jessie.
Current situation is that we are running LTSP off Wheezy 64 bit (server
has 16 gb ram).
Most of our clients are Atom based - require 32 bit - so using i386 for
clients
So far, have tested upgrading a test copy running as a VM. No joy as
log in fails. I did make the edits to sshd_config (KexAlgorithms) but
that didn't seem to help. Logs don't seem to generate much insight
except for a reference to console-kit.

Did you upgrade just the server, but not the LTSP environment? Log in
of what fails? Shouldn't be any need to change ssh algorithms... ssh
should be able to negotiate whatever common keys they both use.

Unless you've made extensive modifications, an upgrade *should* go quite
smoothly... there are no major changes to LTSP and related software
between wheezy and jessie that would be backwards incompatible that I
can think of... though it's admittedly been a while since I've done such
an upgrade.

One prolem you might see is true of any modern distro, incompatibilties
with old video drivers, or requiring more ram.

Post by William Fragakis
From reading the Debian LTSP wiki, it seems that rebuilding client
images under Jessie won't help because they'll be 64 bit.

Not sure what you mean here, the images will be whatever architecture
you build the images from.

If you build the image using the server as a base, it will be whatever
architecture the server is.

If you build an image using a chroot as a base, it will be whatever
architecture the chroot is.

If you export a chroot over NFS, it will be whatever architecture the
chroot is, there's no need to build an image at all in that case.


Good luck!


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