2016-01-11 - Re: [GRASE-Hotspot] 3.8.0 going live. (Was Re: 3.8.0 RC2 Released!)

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From: Timothy White <ti***8@gmail.com>
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Reply To: <56944AD7.4080101@radez.hr>
UTC Datetime: 2016-01-11 18:54:27 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 11:54:27 +1000

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/boot shouldn't fill up at 1GB
My /boot only has 120M and I install the latest kernel's as they come up
(Ubuntu 14.04).
Show the output of ls -lh /boot/
I think you'll find that you have lots of old kernels installed. I have the
current kernel and 2 older versions installed and that's only 120M.

Tim

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 10:37 AM, drazen <dr***a@radez.hr> wrote:

> Actually I did nothing specially with boot partition. I just let ubuntu
> installation to adjust partitions to its default values. I was expected
> that this part of installation is made to adjust partition in best
> practicies manner.
> However I found some explanation at ubuntu forum.
> It says that because some computers could not boot if boot folder is far
> away from disk start. Far means 100Gb away away or so. That is why ubuntu
> installation will make /boot partition as separate partition which is big
> as 236 Mb (allowed up to 1 Gb but it is not explained when it will be set
> to 1 Gb). Anway this is pretty odd reason and solution. Even 1 Gb big boot
> willl become full soon.
> Will keep on investigation on this.
>
> Dražen
>
>
>
> On 01/11/2016 10:00 PM, Timothy White wrote:
>
> It sounds like you've made your boot partition too small. You probably
> want to check if you have older kernels installed that you don't need, and
> uninstall them (make sure you leave the current kernel  that you are
> running). That should hopefully free up enough space to install the latest
> kernel as well.
>
> Upgrades shouldn't lose data. There are daily database backups in
> /var/backups/grase/
>
> Tim
>
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 11:15 PM, Dražen Žuvela <dr***a@radez.hr>
> wrote:
>
>> Ok, I found a trace why updating stopped.
>> This case I had before and then fresh installations where performed on
>> both sites.
>> The reason is that /boot at standard ubuntu server installation is
>> created as separate partition 236Mb size only.  All updates and upgrades
>> material are cumulative stored there. After filling this partition full ,
>> regular updating will stop.
>> Working on it now. Will try to avoid new installations this time.
>> Any advice is welcome to short my investigation.
>>
>>
>>
>> *Dražen *
>> 11.1.2016. u 13:00, Dražen Žuvela je napisao/la:
>>
>> Thank you Tim for your hard work.
>>
>> I have two instances of Grase running. Both are installed aproximatelly
>> at the same time two years ago.
>> One instance was  stopped auto updating at 3.8.0 RC1 and that instance
>> has following sourcelist  written in
>> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/grasehotspot.list :
>> "deb http://nightly.packages.grasehotspot.org/ purewhite main"
>>
>> Second instance stop updating at 3.7.7.something. Probably same path to
>> nightly updates as above. Can't check right now.
>> I didn't force to correct this until now because everything I needed was
>> working correctly (still does).
>> So, don't have idea why updates stopped in different points, and why
>> stopped at all.
>>
>> Now, I am interesting what I should do to move versions to stabile 3.8.0
>> possible without losing user data?
>> There is no big deal even to loose and recreate all users once again,
>> cause I have mainly MAC users and just few ordinary users, and no charging
>> plans at all. Still would be nice to move forward without that extra work.
>>
>> Should I let upgrade kernel too?
>>  After manual  apt-get update
>> and then apt-get upgrade
>> I got this:
>> "...
>> userxxx~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
>> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>  linux-image-extra-3.16.0-48-generic : Depends:
>> linux-image-3.16.0-48-generic but it is not installed
>>  linux-image-generic-lts-utopic : Depends: linux-image-3.16.0-48-generic
>> but it is not installed
>> E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
>> ..."
>>
>> Installed base system is Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
>>
>> Thanks
>> Dražen
>>
>> 7.1.2016. u 7:13, Timothy White je napisao/la:
>>
>> I consider 3.8.0 ready for release. Unless someone can show me a show
>> stopper I'll be releasing it by this weekend.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tim
>> On Oct 21, 2015 6:25 AM, "Timothy White" <ti***8@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I've released RC2 today. This includes some updated translations, and
>>> some tweaking of the version dependencies to assist with upgrades.
>>>
>>> If you have done some translations, please check how they look in RC2,
>>> so we can tweak them if needed.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
>>> On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 9:03 AM, Timothy White < <ti***8@gmail.com>
>>> ti***8@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> <http://grasehotspot.org/2015/08/01/3-8-0-rc-1/>
>>>> http://grasehotspot.org/2015/08/01/3-8-0-rc-1/
>>>>
>>>> I've released the 3.8.0 Release Candidate 1. Full details are on the
>>>> blog, including how to move from the stable builds to the dev builds
>>>> to test the RC1! (Dev builds are not the same as nightly builds, they
>>>> will only move to the new version when we are up to RC's)
>>>>
>>>> Time to start upgrading so we can finally release 3.8.0 and move on to
>>>> developing the next version!
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>> Tim
>>>>
>>>
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