Hey,
Just to confirm, I've happily upgraded my host and guests to Stretch.
Only issues I hit related to vserver (other than systemd in the guests
needing to be removed) was Java 8 and sysvinit-core.
Java 8 (and some friends) check that /proc is mounted before they'll
start, so I had to comment out the calls to mountpoint in the affected
init.d files.
The sysvinit-core postinst sends a USR1 signal to init, I found that
failed so had to comment out that line to upgrade sysvinit-core.
I also finally discovered the reason why some of my guests failed to
start all the applications they should. Debian defaults to a runlevel
of 2, but vserver to a runlevel of 3. Not all of the init.d scripts are
started in runlevel 3.
Cheers,
Andrew
On Tue, 2017-09-05 at 13:48 +0100, Ben Green wrote:
> In short, no.
>
> You need to be careful. If your Stretch system host installs
> systemd
> on upgrade bad things will happen. Read the notes for Jessie AND
> Stretch:
>
> http://linux-vserver.org/Installation_on_Debian
>
> If you upgrade without installing systemd though, the situation is
> identical, so far as I can tell. If you do install systemd by
> mistake
> though, it only takes an uninstall and a reboot to fix things.
>
> Cheers,
> Ben
>
>
>
> Quoting Andrew Ruthven <andrew.ruthven@catalyst.net.nz>:
>
> > Hey,
> >
> > I'm wanting to upgrade my Debian Jessie vserver host to Sretch, but
> > first wanted to make sure I'm not going to break things.
> >
> > I see that the Psand repo has kernel images for Debian Stretch. Is
> > it
> > safe to upgrade to Stretch?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Andrew
>
>
>
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