💾 Archived View for zaibatsu.circumlunar.space › ~visiblink › phlog › 20230803 captured on 2024-08-25 at 02:44:28.
⬅️ Previous capture (2023-11-04)
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So here's something not to do: don't blindly flail at a system upgrade on your server! A couple of nights ago, I decided to upgrade gopher.visiblink.ca. It runs Raspberry Pi OS on a Pi Zero W. Raspberry Pi OS is based on Debian and the /etc/apt/sources.list file uses the same codenames as Debian. So, without going to the Raspberry Pi OS homepage to check on the latest version, I just assumed that it was Debian 12 "Bookworm" and went ahead with the regular steps toward a dist-upgrade. It turns out that the latest version of Raspberry Pi OS is Debian 11 "Bullseye." Ouch. Oddly, the system pulled the "Bookworm" packages and went through the whole process. But when I rebooted, I had a broken mess that wouldn't let me log in. Fortunately, I had a relatively recent backup of the important directories and was able to grab a few more recently changed files from the SD card. Even so, reinstalling the OS and setting everything up again took several hours. Lesson learned? I hope so. On the positive side, the server is up and running with the latest version of Raspberry Pi OS and a very lean setup.