Ubuntu 24.04 upgrade

• Your current OS release must be up-to-date:

mh-update-ubuntu
# (ensure all repos are working)
# reboot

• Now you can kick it off:

# you can connect via direct proxmox shell (not ssh) but seems robust either way
sudo do-release-upgrade

• Typical selections:

sudo do-release-upgrade
# mail server: none
# change sudoers? N (default)
# Keep local sshd_config
# remove local packages? Y
# restart? Y

Steps to perform on all boxes

• move new /etc/systemd/networkd.conf out of the way so we can stow our (IMPORTANT) version:

sudo su -
cd /etc/systemd
mv mv networkd.conf networkd.conf.orig-24.04
Ctrl-D
setup_stow.sh # should create /etc/systemd/networkd.conf symlink
sudo service networkd-dispatcher restart

• re-add custom apt repos via setup_stow.sh
  • NOTE: all custom apt repos are removed by upgrade, but it kindly replaces jammy with noble so they can often easily be re-enabled
  • Always edit files in config/ubuntu/*/etc/apt/sources.list.d then apply symlinks via setup_stow.h
  • Always opt for sources file not list file when possible; see qtb notes below for a specific example

Upgraded boxes

• matryoshka
• morosoph
• bandit
• dev2 (GUI)
• abtdev1 (GUI)
• cast (GUI)

TODO:

• positronic needs migration to postfix (from 13 > 17!) as v13 is deprecated now
• glam, lots of goo there

NOTES

bandit

bandit do-release-upgrade seemed to go without any trouble, but it takes a WHILE... like, half an hour or more...

• looks like i killed snapd on bandit, and that was preserved, yes!
• re-add qbt apt repo - we should now use SOURCES not LIST, it is the more modern solution (has more metadata, including a key)

sudo su -
cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d
mv qbittorrent-team-ubuntu-qbittorrent-stable-jammy.list ~/backup
mv qbittorrent-team-ubuntu-qbittorrent-stable-jammy.sources qbittorrent-team-ubuntu-qbittorrent-stable-noble.sources
ne qbittorrent-team-ubuntu-qbittorrent-stable-noble.sources
# the upgrade already replaced jammy with noble, NICE - we just need to ENABLE IT!  SWEET!

• AFTER ensuring setup_stow.sh and Samba are working (see above), re-add my custom qbt service:

sudo systemctl enable qbittorrent-nox.service
sudo systemctl start qbittorrent-nox.service

OLD notes

• Upgrading gnome can be troublesome shit from command line. Do this:
  • exit i3, boot into Gnome
  • hit Alt, type Software Updater, go through options to upgrade

Either:

sudo do-release-upgrade

Or:

sudo apt install update-manager
sudo update-manager &

• Nautilus crashes (yep, unreal right?); i tried alternatives and they are all BLOATed; currently using spacefm
  • whoa, this appears to have been (maybe) because my VM host was not set to HOST - i found out when an ig container kept crashign with "bad CPU"

• check Samba, it "broke bad" on bandit - but i fixed it by adding SMB to m user in hive UI, hrmmm, so I don't know why it broke with 24.04...