Hi, Thanks for your suggestion, I decided to upgrade to 18.04.4 and I ran a few times the following commands (from root):
sudo apt autoremove sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade I have 4 servers and I upgraded all of them and 3 of them are working properly, however one server apache is not working, I can't restart apache (with "sudo systemctl restart apache2" - it's not responding) and the website is not working. How can I fix it now? The server didn't respond after reboot once (after 2 reboots) and I had to shut it down and restart it again. Thanks, Uri אורי u...@speedy.net On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 10:29 PM Micha Bailey <michabai...@gmail.com> wrote: > Regarding the upgrade to Focal (20.04): There’s no reason to rush. Bionic > (18.04) is supported, if I’m not mistaken, until 2023. In fact, Bionic > (LTS) users aren’t even offered the upgrade (i.e. you need to go out of > your way to get it) until 20.04.1 is out in a few months. > > Regarding the upgrade to 18.04.4, I could be mistaken, but my > understanding is that point releases aren’t new versions of Ubuntu per se. > At point releases, new isos are spun with up-to-date packages, but it’s > still the same version. Assuming you make a habit of installing updates > regularly (which you obviously should be), you will effectively > automatically be on 18.04.4. > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 6:44 PM אורי <u...@speedy.net> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Actually I have a staging server which I can upgrade first to 18.04.4 to >> see if it works, or if something breaks. But I didn't find it on Google - >> how do I upgrade an OS to Ubuntu 18.04.4 (from 18.04.*) without upgrading >> it to 20.04? >> >> אורי >> u...@speedy.net >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 6:19 PM Shlomi Fish <shlo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi Uri! >>> >>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 5:30 PM אורי <u...@speedy.net> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I'm sorry for posting twice in the same day to the same mailing list. >>>> But I have a question: I'm using Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS for a few production >>>> servers (one of them I upgraded a few months ago from 14.04). How important >>>> it is to upgrade the OS version, or can I keep it like this? I'm afraid >>>> that things will break up if I upgrade. And if I upgrade, should I upgrade >>>> to Ubuntu 18.04.4 or 20.04? I think since 20.04 has been recently released, >>>> it might have bugs which will be fixed later, and I prefer not to use the >>>> first version of 20.04 but to wait about one year before I use it. Is there >>>> a risk with keeping using 18.04.3? Or should I upgrade at least to 18.04.4? >>>> >>>> >>> I've answered the general question here: >>> >>> >>> https://github.com/shlomif/Freenode-programming-channel-FAQ/blob/master/FAQ_with_ToC__generated.md#will-a-change-i-would-like-to-do-break-some-functionality >>> >>> Quoting it: >>> >>> Will a change I would like to do break some functionality? >>> >>> As the aphorism >>> <https://github.com/shlomif/shlomif-email-signature/blob/master/shlomif-sig-quotes.txt#L1988> >>> goes: The difference between theory and practice is that in theory, >>> there is no difference between theory and practice, while in practice, >>> there is.. There is usually a risk, however small, that a change will >>> break some functionality. With good tooling (such as >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Version_control , >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine and >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-level_virtualisation ) it should be >>> relatively easy to revert a change which introduced regressions, and you >>> should do adequate testing. >>> >>> A change may have to be avoided due to being estimated as too time or >>> money consuming, or as having too little gain. However, promising changes >>> should be attempted because: >>> >>> 1. "No guts - no glory." >>> 2. What does "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" really mean? >>> >>> <https://szabgab.com/what-does--if-it-aint-broke-dont-fix-it--really-mean.html> >>> 3. If you never change anything, your project won't progress. >>> >>> ---------- >>> While you may break some functionality by updating to 18.04.04 , you >>> also risk being affected by known security vulnerabilities (which may also >>> break functionality sooner or later). There is a concept of >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt . >>> >>> Regarding updating to 20.04, it is likely more time consuming and may >>> have more breaking changes, and you may not need all the newest and >>> shiniest software versions there, and you may wish to only update to ubuntu >>> 22.04/etc. I didn't hear of too many horror stories of ubuntu 20.04 being >>> unusable or unstable, but I'm quite out of the loop. >>> >>> Good luck! >>> >>> >>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Uri. >>>> אורי >>>> u...@speedy.net >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Linux-il mailing list >>>> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >>>> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Shlomi Fish https://www.shlomifish.org/ >>> >>> Buddha has the Chuck Norris nature. >>> >>> Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply >>> . >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-il mailing list >> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >> >
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