Comments on: Upgrading to Ubuntu Server 6.10 (edgy)

By: Paul Mitchell

Paul Mitchell — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:15:54 +0000

Many thanks for these instructions. My server upgrade from Dapper to Edgy has gone relatively smoothly. Knowing in advance that Courier was going to cause pain helped me greatly.

By: D Webber

D Webber — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:05:50 +0000

Thanks very much for the info. I’ve been using Dovecot instead of Courier IMAP but will probably go back to Courier (Dovecot seems to only let Squirrelmail see new messages in the inbox, not other folders) so thanks for the heads up.

BTW, yesterday I found a detailed posting on fixing various Edgy problems: http://www.debianadmin.com/ubuntu-edgy-upgrade-common-problems-with-solutions.html

By: Bart

Bart — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:28:23 +0000

Thanks for the notes, I just encountered an error with the Courier package. It’s noted by Ubuntu as a bug, but there is a workaround for this:
1. backup /var/lib/dpkg/status to a safe location
2. remove all courier entries from /var/lib/dpkg/status (nano it, search=ctrl-w)
3. sudo apt-get upgrade
4. sudo apt-get install courier-imap

This was the only package I found problems with, some packages I also use:
Bind
Spamassasin
Mailscanner

One more thing with the command “uname -r”
Before the upgrade: 2.6.15-26-amd64-server
After the upgrade: 2.6.17-10-server
So I’m not sure if the new kernel is amd64 enabled…

By: D Webber

D Webber — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 02:46:15 +0000

Glad it helped!

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:33:22 +0000

Thanks for the quick notes regarding your update, it definitely helped with upgrading my server to Edgy.