2022 system upgrade

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Note to self - Debian 10 reaches end of life in August.

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root@forumgarden:~# uptime
 15:15:02 up 323 days,  5:07,  1 user,  load average: 0.42, 0.17, 0.05
root@forumgarden:~# cat /etc/debian_version 
10.12

[Bryn Mawr]

Note to self - Debian 10 reaches end of life in August.

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root@forumgarden:~# uptime
 15:15:02 up 323 days,  5:07,  1 user,  load average: 0.42, 0.17, 0.05
root@forumgarden:~# cat /etc/debian_version 
10.12

Is it worth keeping Buster into the LTS period or would it be better to move straight to Bullseye?

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I am open to advice.

[Saint_]

I will send flowers.

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I will send flowers.

Good lord no - "End of Life" is a technical term, not a sentence!

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I have it in mind that we might upgrade to 11.4 in the next week or two.

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Forumgarden apologizes for a 35 minute outage, having run a full-site snapshot backup which took a lot longer than expected.

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Forumgarden notes that the upgrade is now complete and the underlying system release is now Debian Linux Bullseye 11.4.

Please add any exceptional events to the thread.

[LarsMac]

Oh goodie. New Code.

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It is my intention to upgrade the phpBB underlying code to the latest release at noon UTC Wednesday 4th January 2023. That's 12 hours from now. I'll update this thread when I'm done.

[Betty Boop]

? You are going back in time.

Or have I officially gone mad.

I wouldn't be surprised at either.

[Betty Boop]

Information: This board is currently disabled.

Wondering what that means, am I able to post?

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Information: This board is currently disabled.

Wondering what that means, am I able to post?

Well, it depends on whether you have admin rights on the site. Nobody else would be able to.

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Right.

I have re-opened the site. The upgrade is completed. We now have the latest php and phpBB upgrade installed.

The colors have changed, the layout has changed. That is not intentional.

I shall go and compare the old files to the new and discover what I should now change to get the old look back again.

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There. The Blue is gone and the Green is back like it ought to be. I hadn't changed the default Prosilver theme back to Simplicity.

phpBB-3.3.9.png

Service is resumed.

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Is anyone seeing display format glitches on any threads? we have a report of a display change on Wednesday 11th January. It looks like this in the Quordle thread.

fg-display-error.png

[LarsMac]

That's interesting

[Bryn Mawr]

No problems from here.

[Betty Boop]

Tis my problem, mostly in the Quordle thread, it just won't load properly and then let me post anything to the thread.

I will try and get to the desk in my bedroom and switch on the linux machine and try from there.