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The upgrade of the "vicki" (hostname) dom0 (which is the "host" of the "guest" domUs: sflug (sf-lug.com. 208.96.15.252 208.96.15.251) balug (balug-sf-lug-v2.balug.org. 208.96.15.254) ) from Debian version 4.0 "etch" to version 5.0.4 "lenny" was successfully completed by late yesterday.

Likewise upgrading the sflug (sf-lug.com. 208.96.15.252 208.96.15.251) domU remains - but I anticipate that will likely be completed sometime between now and 2010-01-15.

Some slightly higher-level (manual) log entry details for the interested and/or curious:

2010-02-08 Michael Paoli Upgraded dom0 Debian from version 4.0 "etch" to version 5.0.4 "lenny", using: http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/i386/release-notes/index.en.html etc. (and http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install.txt.en) as guide. Most of the "gory" details are in: /root/upgrade-lenny.script (the above from script(1), with script -t timestamp data in: /root/upgrade-lenny.time as per : http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html... ) Much of the information (shell history) on actions done prior to that point may be found in: /root/etch_to_lenny_upgrade_history starting at or slightly past line 428 - which is the first line beginning with: 437 in that file. The /root/etch_to_lenny_upgrade_history file was created via: # fc -l -5000 -1 > etch_to_lenny_upgrade_history and was done, if I recall correctly, just before starting script(1) to create /root/upgrade-lenny.script Stuff prior to that line 428 (/^437/) location in /root/etch_to_lenny_upgrade_history contains details mostly related to things done in/from dom0 in preparation for and and in support of upgrading the balug domU Debian from version 4.0 "etch" to version 5.0.4 "lenny" and also staging of some bits in preparation for the then forthcoming dom0 upgrade (such as placement of CD ISO image(s), some slight tweaks to some config files or putting in some commented out entries into config files so they could be quickly and conveniently uncommented when ready to proceed with upgrade(s)). A bit into the upgrade of dom0, used # dpkg-reconfigure debconf to reconfigure debconf to use readline (avoids "pretty" curses based screens that can commonly not be very pretty, and also makes reading/reviewing subsequent script(1) data much nicer). After upgrade, default kernel boot configuration didn't work (it would reset itself before completing boot), swapped ordering of first two boot entries in /boot/grub/menu.lst so the default would use kernel /xen-3.2-1-i386.gz instead of /xen-3.0.3-1-i386-pae.gz - that seemed to work sufficiently well. Reconfigured Xen balug domU to use 2.6.26-2-xen-686 kernel

Quoting "Michael Paoli" Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu:

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The Xen Dom0 hosting sf-lug.com will be going down for maintenance (OS upgrades) this evening. sf-lug.org remains unaffected.

Some not directly "production" (redundant or no direct immediate production impact) BALUG systems will also be down this evening (all those on IP 208.96.15.254). (The Xen domU hosting a BALUG domU will be going down).