HP EliteBook Folio 9470m - Debian - 2018 archive
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2018 archive.
2018-12-20: sdb4 - apt - upgrade
tingo@kg-elitebook:~$ sudo apt upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required: libevent-2.0-5 Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it. The following packages will be upgraded: firefox-esr ghostscript libbasicusageenvironment1 libgroupsock8 libgs9 libgs9-common liblivemedia57 libperl5.24 libpolkit-agent-1-0 libpolkit-backend-1-0 libpolkit-gobject-1-0 libsmbclient libssl1.0.2 libssl1.1 libtiff5 libusageenvironment3 libwbclient0 openssl perl perl-base perl-modules-5.24 policykit-1 samba-libs 23 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 67.3 MB of archives. After this operation, 244 kB of additional disk space will be used. [..] Removed /run/systemd/system/polkit.service. Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-11+deb9u3) ...
ok.
2018-11-28: sdb4 - apt - install acpi
tingo@kg-elitebook:~$ sudo apt install acpi [..] Setting up acpi (1.7-1+b1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ...
ok.
2018-11-26: sdb4 - apt - install screen
tingo@kg-elitebook:~$ sudo apt install screen [..] Setting up screen (4.5.0-6) ... Processing triggers for systemd (232-25+deb9u6) ...
ok.
2018-11-20: sdb4 - create a bsdusers group, and add my user to it
tingo@kg-elitebook:~$ sudo groupadd bsdusers tingo@kg-elitebook:~$ grep bsdusers /etc/group bsdusers:x:1001:
current memberships
tingo@kg-elitebook:~$ id tingo uid=1000(tingo) gid=1000(tingo) groups=1000(tingo),24(cdrom),25(floppy),27(sudo),29(audio),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),108(netdev),114(bluetooth),115(lpadmin),119(scanner)
add to more groups
tingo@kg-elitebook:~$ sudo usermod -a -G bsdusers,dialout tingo
verify
tingo@kg-elitebook:~$ id tingo uid=1000(tingo) gid=1000(tingo) groups=1000(tingo),20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),27(sudo),29(audio),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),108(netdev),114(bluetooth),115(lpadmin),119(scanner),1001(bsdusers)
ok.
2018-11-20: sdb4 - apt - I added contrib and non-free repositories to /etc/apt/sources.list and then installed firmware-iwlwifi.
2018-11-20: sdb4 - Debian 9.6 installed
tingo@kg-elitebook:~$ cat /etc/debian_version 9.6 tingo@kg-elitebook:~$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description: Debian GNU/Linux 9.6 (stretch) Release: 9.6 Codename: stretch
ok
2018-11-20: I downloaded Debian 9.6 (xfce) and put on a usb stick, then I booted the machine from the usb stick (I had to do that from rEFInd) and started the installation. After the install finished, the machine booted to rEFInd - nice.
2018-11-19: sdb4 - ok, so backup of home directory and the reinstall Debian 9 it is. Tomorrow.
2018-11-19: sdb4 - Debian -- sid?
tingo@kg-elitebook:~$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description: Debian GNU/Linux stable-updates (sid) Release: stable-updates Codename: sid tingo@kg-elitebook:~$ cat /etc/debia cat: /etc/debia: No such file or directory tingo@kg-elitebook:~$ cat /etc/debian_version buster/sid
hmm, this might have something to do with it
tingo@kg-elitebook:~$ more /etc/apt/sources.list.d/testing.list deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
remove that
tingo@kg-elitebook:~$ sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/testing.list
and create this
tingo@kg-elitebook:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/base.list deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ stretch main #deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ stretch main
now, do the update /upgrade dance again
tingo@kg-elitebook:~$ sudo apt update Hit:1 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates InRelease Ign:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease Get:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch Release [118 kB] Get:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch Release.gpg [2,434 B] Ign:5 http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease Hit:6 http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian stretch-updates InRelease Hit:7 http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian stretch Release Get:8 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages [7,089 kB] Get:10 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch/main Translation-en [5,388 kB] Fetched 12.6 MB in 5s (2,392 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 1 package can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see it.
ok, so that wasn't enough. Create
tingo@kg-elitebook:~$ cat /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release n=stretch Pin-Priority: 1001 and then try update / upgrade - didn't work
change to
tingo@kg-elitebook:~$ cat /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 1001
and try update - didn't work. Ok remove
tingo@kg-elitebook:~$ sudo rm /etc/apt/preferences
and create this instead
tingo@kg-elitebook:~$ cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/stretch Package: * Pin: release a=stretch Pin-Priority: 1001
now, what does apt update say?
2018-11-19: sdb4 - apt - upgrade to Debian 9 "stretch"
tingo@kg-elitebook:~$ sudo apt upgrade [..] 994 upgraded, 238 newly installed, 0 to remove and 241 not upgraded. Need to get 473 MB of archives. After this operation, 703 MB of additional disk space will be used. [..] Processing triggers for libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0:amd64 (2.38.0+dfsg-6) ... Processing triggers for libvlc-bin:amd64 (3.0.4-3+b3) ... You have new mail in /var/mail/tingo
and do
tingo@kg-elitebook:~$ sudo apt dist-upgrade [..] 238 upgraded, 347 newly installed, 39 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 526 MB of archives. After this operation, 841 MB of additional disk space will be used. [..] update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.18.0-2-amd64 You have new mail in /var/mail/tingo
and run autoremove
tingo@kg-elitebook:~$ sudo apt autoremove [..] 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 373 to remove and 1 not upgraded. After this operation, 571 MB disk space will be freed. [..] Removing linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64 (3.16.43-2+deb8u5) ... /etc/kernel/postrm.d/initramfs-tools: update-initramfs: Deleting /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-4-amd64 /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-update-grub: Generating grub configuration file ... Found background image: /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-grub.png Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.18.0-2-amd64 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.18.0-2-amd64 Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-7-amd64 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-7-amd64 Found unknown Linux distribution on /dev/sdb2 Found Fedora 28 (Twenty Eight) on /dev/mapper/fedora_kg--elitebook-root Adding boot menu entry for EFI firmware configuration done [..] Processing triggers for fontconfig (2.13.1-2) ...
ok
2018-11-19: sdb4 - apt - update
tingo@kg-elitebook:~$ sudo apt update [..] Reading package lists... Done
ok. I also had to remove a couple of files
tingo@kg-elitebook:~$ sudo rm /etc/apt/preferences.d/pinning.pref tingo@kg-elitebook:~$ sudo rm /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80defaultrelease
does it work now? Yes - 'sudo apt list --upgradable' gives a very long list of packages.
2018-11-19: sdb4 - apt - change from jessie to stretch
tingo@kg-elitebook:~$ sudo sed -i 's/jessie/stretch/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
manually checked, looks good
2018-11-19: sdb4 - apt - prepare for upgrade to Debian 9.
tingo@kg-elitebook:~$ sudo apt update [..] tingo@kg-elitebook:~$ sudo apt upgrade Reading package lists... Done E: The value 'stable' is invalid for APT::Default-Release as such a release is not available in the sources
hmm, that's interesting.
tingo@kg-elitebook:~$ grep stable /etc/apt/*/* /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80defaultrelease:APT::Default-Release "stable";
ok, so change that to "jessie".
tingo@kg-elitebook:~$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80defaultrelease APT::Default-Release "jessie";
and now?
tingo@kg-elitebook:~$ sudo apt upgrade [..] 265 upgraded, 13 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 383 MB of archives. After this operation, 283 MB of additional disk space will be used. [..] Processing triggers for python-support (1.0.15) ... Processing triggers for systemd (232-22) ... You have new mail in /var/mail/tingo
and then
tingo@kg-elitebook:~$ sudo apt dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: gstreamer1.0-libav libgconf2-4 libgnome2-0 libuuid-perl Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
hmm,
tingo@kg-elitebook:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: gstreamer1.0-libav libgconf2-4 libgnome2-0 libuuid-perl Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
ok, looks the same.
tingo@kg-elitebook:~$ sudo dpkg -C tingo@kg-elitebook:~$ sudo apt-mark showhold
ok
2018-11-16: this machine still runs Debian 8:
tingo@kg-elitebook:~$ date;cat /etc/debian_version Fri Nov 16 22:59:03 CET 2018 8.8
ouch.