test upgrade from community 4.4 to 5.x

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flexyz

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Hi

I am planning to upgrade my production PVE 4.4 to 5.1 and did some initial testing on a VM.

A fresh PVE 4.4 with ZFS mirror boot and one small data ZFS pool -> https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Upgrade_from_4.x_to_5.0 on

But after reboot, webgui is not working and upgrade seems faulty - I tried a few times

1. apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
2. sed -i 's/jessie/stretch/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
3. sed -i 's/jessie/stretch/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pve-enterprise.list
4. apt-get update
5. apt-get dist-upgrade
6. reboot

This looks weird :

root@pve:~# uname -a

Linux pve 4.4.35-1-pve #1 SMP Fri Dec 9 11:09:55 CET 2016 x86_64 GNU/Linux


Any advice on this one?

Thanks
 
you are not on the latest 4.4, which is a requirement for upgrading. please double-check your repository configuration, most likely you only have the enterprise repository configured, but no subscription key activated.

(edit: also, read what apt tells you ;) if there is an error message or it asks you if you want to remove half of PVE's packages, something is probably wrong and should be fixed BEFORE proceeding)
 
I have enterprise license on my production machine, but not my test VM.

1. apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
2. reboot

- should upgrade to latest 4.4 or?

How should I fix the repositories then?

Thanks
 
flexyz said:
I have enterprise license on my production machine, but not my test VM.

1. apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
2. reboot

- should upgrade to latest 4.4 or?
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if you have configured the repositories correctly, yes. what does it output?

How should I fix the repositories then?
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on a machine with no subscription key, configure the pve-no-subscription repository. see the Admin Guide
 
btw. should I modify the sources.list in anyway? ( to get 4.4 upgraded first)?

And I guess I need to disable the "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/pve-enterprise.list"

Thanks
 
please read the section of the admin guide I linked - it explains all the different repositories and how to enable or disable them!
 
flexyz said:
btw. should I modify the sources.list in anyway? ( to get 4.4 upgraded first)?

And I guess I need to disable the "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/pve-enterprise.list"

Thanks
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Correct, your proxmox 4.4 test VM should have sources.list pointing to debian Jessie pve-nosubscription repos, and pve-enterprise also disabled, then dist-upgrade to latest updates. Once no more updates available for 4.4, modify sources again to debian stretch pve-no subscription and dist-upgrade.

Before upgrading your production PVE, I always recommend backing up the data on your VM''s and also make full proxmox backup of your VM's. Best Wishes!
 
Hi
Here is what I did - if someone else can use it :)

(I could not find how to upgrade 4.4 to latest in the official guide)

01. /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie main contrib

# PVE pve-no-subscription repository provided by proxmox.com,
# NOT recommended for production use
deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian jessie pve-no-subscription

# security updates
deb http://security.debian.org jessie/updates main contrib

02. mv /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pve-enterprise.list /home

03. apt-get update

04. apt-get dist-upgrade

05. reboot

06. Virtual Environment 4.4-18/ef2610e8

07. /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch main contrib

# PVE pve-no-subscription repository provided by proxmox.com,
# NOT recommended for production use
deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve stretch pve-no-subscription

# security updates
deb http://security.debian.org stretch/updates main contrib

08. apt-get update

09. apt-get dist-upgrade

10. reboot

11. Virtual Environment 5.0-32/2560e073
 
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