Upgrade stetsonia to use Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

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Upgrade stetsonia to use Ubuntu 16.04 LTS #1

Closed kghbln closed 7 years ago

kghbln commented 7 years ago

@JeroenDeDauw @mwjames

This is now a scheduled for Dec 2016 thing. This release of Ubuntu ships with MySQL 5.7 and PHP 7.0

kghbln commented 7 years ago

I will probably be doing this on Sunday 4, 2016. Let's see how Ubuntu behaves.

upgrading to LTS - does not work if you are not already on LTS
how to - worked perfect

@JeroenDeDauw Just to make sure. It is possible to upgrade the existing VM?!

kghbln commented 7 years ago

This is now happening. Keeping fingers crossed.

kghbln commented 7 years ago

Well this is quite unexpected. I believe the server upgrade worked well but now it seems that SMW is not ready for MySQL 5.7

kghbln commented 7 years ago

For the record. The upgrade as such took 30 minutes.

kghbln commented 7 years ago

The upgrade was to

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
Release:    16.04
Codename:   xenial

which is cool and in "/etc/upgrade-manager" we have Prompt=lts

kghbln commented 7 years ago

This was the reason why I imperatively had to upgrade: The cert was to expire next week and since StartSSL was removed from trust in Fx and Ch we would have had worries starting in January even with a renewed and valid StartSSL cert. Now both "www.s-mw.o" and "doc.s-mw.o" are serving with Let's encrypt certs. Doing this on 15.10 would have been painful.

kghbln commented 7 years ago

For the record: (this also applies to

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