Re: PFire 2.21

[Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>]

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Hello,

On Wed, 2018-06-27 at 23:07 +0200, Peter Müller wrote:
> Hello Paul,
> 
> this is the right place. Testing reports are always welcome. :-)
> 
> A crashing grub does not sound so good - especially if a firewall
> machine is physical unreachable and no remote KVM console or similar
> is available.
> 
> The 2.12 release was split up in two parts (one includes the new
> kernel, firmware files are in the second) and as far as I am aware,
> both should installed before rebooting.

Yes, you should install both in one go and then reboot. Pakfire should not
really allow you to only install one.

> > This may be my machine as I had used a live parted in the past to make a
> > properly useful size var partition.
> 
> I did not get this.

Changing the partition layout should not create any problems, because...

> @Core developers: Are we changing partition layout on existing
> installations (enlarge /boot, drop /var)?

... once the system is installed we never change any partition layout and
basically don't about it.

@Paul: Do you have any log files or so that can be useful to find out what went
wrong here?

> Yes, restoring too old backup files causes trouble. IPFire creates
> a new backup before running a core upgrade, but if this fails, it
> is hard to recover it. So better create a fresh backup before updating
> to 2.21. Should we include this in the release notes?

Pakfire automatically creates one. But people of course have to download that
from the system.

> Any observations after running on 2.21 (faster/slower/unstable/...)?

Best,
- -Michael

> 
> Thanks, and best regards,
> Peter Müller
> 
> 
> > Dear all,
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Hopefully I am in the right place to report on 2.21
> > 
> > Just in case not - a quick summary
> > 
> > Moved to testing from stable 120.
> > 
> > Pakfire upgraded first to 121 - no reboot suggested.
> > 
> > Pakfire upgraded next to 2.21 - This time reboot required.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Reboot failed with a broken grub.  I could not fix this with the manual grub
> > commands to get ipfire running at all so could not rewrite grub from a
> > running system.  
> > 
> > This may be my machine as I had used a live parted in the past to make a
> > properly useful size var partition.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Bit the bullet and downloaded nightly build of 2.21 and reinstalled a clean
> > ipfire.
> > 
> > So far so good.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Only one comment about restoring previous settings from a backup.
> > 
> > My backup was old  and from a time when php was supported.  After restoring
> > the backup a surprise was in store the next time apache web interface was
> > restarted.  Apache failed as there is a reference in the conf files from
> > backup to load php so extension. 
> > 
> > Commenting out the line fixes it of course.  Just thought I would mention
> > that restoring backups from a version prior to the latest may have issues as
> > features start to get expired.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > By the way I really admire the stuff you do and a donation is en-route. 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Paul
> > 
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