Re: Trouble with Ubuntu updates

I'll have to look into your suggestions. At home I use apt-cacher which
speeds things up a bit but may not work if the Ubuntu servers aren't
working.

I have a new problem. Maybe you or someone else can figure this out.

   1. I updated my server at home.
         1. apt-get update
         2. apt-get upgrade
   2. One of the packages that got install was "linux-server"
         1. According to /var/log/dpkg.log it installed a new kernel
               1. 2007-02-10 11:36:43 status installed linux-server
                  2.6.15.26
   3. I can't find this kernel on the system.
         1. I checked /boot and it's not there
         2. I did "updatdb" and "locate 2.6.15.26" and locate
            "linux-server" without any luck

I'm still searching for this new kernel but I don't think I'll find it.
Either I'm doing something wrong or this didn't get installed. I'm
thinking I need to build a test Ubuntu server and do an update on it.
That would tell me weather or not "linux-server" is installed and maybe
I can actually find this new kernel.

Oh, the Ubuntu updates look like there working. However, I didn't find
any information on the broken kernel update or what ever that guy was
talking about. I wonder if that's why I can't find this new 2.6.15.26
kernel.

Shane Spencer wrote:status
> I recommend the package cron-apt for clients servers, its redily
> available in all debian/ubuntu releases. Its true the ubuntu servers
> have been slow recently esp. from Alaska.
>
> cron-apt by default is configured for daily downloads of all
> upgradable packages on apt based systems that support dist-upgrade and
> upgrade. This is handy when you want to maintain an up to date
> package cache on client machines so you aren't sitting on your thumb
> waiting for downloads. It logs and has email notification support for
> falure reports.
>
> Debian or Ubuntu feeds of choice will never stay 100% online. Infact
> it wavers quite a bit recently, you were probably helping a client at
> the same time I couldn't access us.archive.ubuntu.com, but it cleared
> up pretty quickly if I remember correctly.
>
> Another nifty gem is to maintain an updated cache on a usb flash
> drive, basically set up rsync to download all recent updates on a
> daily basis to say /ubuntu/ or /debian/ on your flash drive. You can
> do this by listing all remote files via rsync and pushing that to a
> file every week or month or so for all .deb files, important to only
> exclude .deb files. Then use that as the excluded files list for a
> daily rsync. I would store the script to do all this on the flash
> drive itself. That way if the drive is not around the updates aren't
> executed. Then if you are having issues on site you have a week or two
> of updates on a flash drive you can just plug in and add to
> sources.list.
>
> It does suck when the feeds go offline, but you can be prepared!
>
> Shane
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Received on Sat Feb 10 12:04:34 2007