Document how to fix BASE-IS-OLD

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diff --git a/input/howto/upgrade-to-squeeze.mdwn b/input/howto/upgrade-to-squeeze.mdwn
index 0f6f416..7573b37 100644 (file)
--- a/input/howto/upgrade-to-squeeze.mdwn
+++ b/input/howto/upgrade-to-squeeze.mdwn
@@ -1,6 +1,18 @@
 
 # Upgrade from lenny to squeeze
 
+Make sure to coordinate with whoever uses the host, be it the buildd
+operator, the QA team, the ftp team or just announce it if it's a
+general developer box.
+
+on buildds:
+
+       cd ~buildd
+       sudo su - buildd
+       touch NO-DAEMON-PLEASE EXIT-DAEMON-PLEASE && exit
+
+       now wait for the buildd to quit
+
 turn off samhain
 
        /etc/init.d/samhain stop &&
@@ -21,7 +33,6 @@ install deborphan, clean up
        orphaner -a
        orphaner -a -n
 
-
 purge removed packages
 
        dpkg --get-selections | awk '$2=="deinstall" {print $1}' &&
@@ -38,12 +49,13 @@ update apt list
 
 upgrade
 
-       apt-get install locales-all
+       apt-get install locales-all apt dpkg
 
 rest follows
 
        apt-get dist-upgrade
 
+use dash as system shell (/bin/sh).
 
 reject changes to /etc/pam.d/sudo (puppet will install a new file later anyway)
 
@@ -59,13 +71,13 @@ reject changes to /etc/munin/plugin-conf.d/munin-node (puppet will install a new
   * /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
   * /etc/apache2/ports.conf
 
-update nagios.git (add host to squeeze hostgroup)
+update dsa-nagios.git (add host to squeeze hostgroup)
 
 update dsa-puppet.git (add to squeeze list in local.yaml)
 
 do a puppet run:
 
-       puppetd -t
+       puppetd -t; puppetd -t
 
 upgrade once more (security etc)
 
@@ -79,6 +91,17 @@ maybe also
 
        apt-get install firmware-bnx2
 
+if you are an nfs client, make sure to load the module before boot completes:
+
+       echo nfs >> /etc/modules
+
+if you are an autofs node, make sure to load the module before boot completes:
+
+       echo autofs4 >> /etc/modules
+
+These last two are because autofs in particular lazy loads the modules, and it
+will happen after we've disabled module loading.
+
 clean up transitions
 
        dpkg --purge dhcp3-client && apt-get install isc-dhcp-client  # mark as non-auto
@@ -88,13 +111,9 @@ Do the same for grub/grub-pc if you did upgrade-from-grub-legacy
        (reboot)
        upgrade-from-grub-legacy
        (reboot)
-       apt-get purge grub
+       apt-get purge grub &&
        apt-get install grub-pc
 
-check for obsolete packages
-
-       /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/dsa-check-packages
-
 clean up old libs
 
        orphaner
@@ -102,27 +121,38 @@ clean up old libs
        orphaner -a
        orphaner -a -n
 
+check for unneeded/obsolete packages
+
+       apt-get autoremove
+
+       /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/dsa-check-packages
+
 purge removed packages
 
        dpkg --get-selections | awk '$2=="deinstall" {print $1}' &&
        echo "really purge these [y/N]?" && read ans && [ "$ans" = "y" ] && dpkg --purge `dpkg --get-selections | awk '$2=="deinstall" {print $1}'` &&
        echo "These are not at install:" && dpkg --get-selections | awk '$2!="install" {print $1}'
 
+purge cruft that upgrade doesn't remove
+
+       apt-get remove --purge emacs22-common libxmlrpc-ruby libcap1 emacs22-nox emacs22-bin-common libvolume-id0 gcc-4.2-base ifenslave libopenssl-ruby1.8 mailx
+
 re-init samhain
 
 possibly reboot
 
 re-enable exim, samhain
 
-       mv /etc/rc2.d/K02exim4 /etc/rc2.d/S02exim4
-       mv /etc/rc2.d/K02samhain /etc/rc2.d/S02samhain
+       mv /etc/rc2.d/K??exim4 /etc/rc2.d/S02exim4
+       mv /etc/rc2.d/K??samhain /etc/rc2.d/S02samhain
        env -i /etc/init.d/exim4 start
-       env -i /etc/init.d/samhain
+       env -i /etc/init.d/samhain start
 
        insserv
 
 re-init samhain
 
+### Troubleshooting
 
 ### Problems with CCISS
 
@@ -130,3 +160,6 @@ On custom kernels in squeeze it seems that udev stopped to create cciss devices,
 
        cd /lib/udev/devices
        /dev/MAKEDEV cciss
+
+### mailq plugin no longer works
+       apt-get install nagios-plugins-standard