Thanks Tom for your directions. I was able to solve the problem. I followed your suggestions quoted below > You can set the init style to plain for your 9.04 vserver and/or replace > the upstart package with sysvinit. Restart the vserver and you should be > able to finish the upgrade process BUT you will run into the upstart > issue after that (in 9.10 there seems to be no sysvinit package to > replace upstart anymore). and I was able to upgrade my Ubuntu 9.04 powered VPS to Ubuntu 9.10 without any problem. The upgrade procedure went fine. After the upgrade was done I deleted the 'style' file from the configuration. Next, rebooted the VPS. As I can see now everything seems to be working like it should. The only thing I did not do was replacement of the upstart package with sysvinit, but as I said the upgrade went fine and my VPS is working like it should. Thanks for your help. Dragan Saragin > Am Mittwoch, den 04.11.2009, 15:21 +0100 schrieb Herbert Poetzl: >> On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 07:56:36AM -0600, Dragan Saraginov wrote: >> > Hi to all. Hope you are all good. >> >> > Can someone help me with my issue? I have a problem upgrading the >> > Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10. The problem is caused by their 'upstart' package >> > which seems can not be installed and therefore the upgrade process >> > terminates. >> >> 'cannot be installed' sounds a little vague, could you provide >> some details _why_ it can't be installed or what errors/issues >> you are seeing ... > > Host System: > debian lenny 5.0.3 64bit > Kernel: 2.6.31.4-vs2.3.0.36.19 > util-vserver 0.30.216~r2842-2 > debootstrap 1.0.10lenny1 > (with karmic script from ubuntus debootstrap 1.0.20~jaunty1) > > vserver ubuntu910 build -m debootstrap --context 1185 --hostname ubuntu910 > --interface dummy0=eth0:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/24 --rootdir /vservers -- -d > karmic -m http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ -- --variant=minbase > > results in a vserver that won't start with vserver ubuntu910 start, most > likely because the default sysv init style doesn't find anything to > start. > Immediately returns without an error and without a running vserver. > > echo plain > /etc/vservers/ubuntu910/apps/init/style > > vserver ubuntu910 start will start the vserver now, but won't start up > any services or execute upstart scripts. Inside the vserver there's > basically just init running. > > vserver ubuntu910 enter > ps auxww > root 1 0.0 0.0 10632 1164 ? Ss 22:03 0:00 > /sbin/init > root 16042 7.0 0.0 124 40 ? S+ 22:21 0:00 login > root 16076 0.0 0.0 17696 1832 pts/16 Ss 22:21 0:00 /bin/bash > -login > root 16082 0.0 0.0 14884 1060 pts/16 R+ 22:21 0:00 ps auxww > > >> > Is there some workaround to have my vps upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10? >> > I tried googling for a solution but I was not able to find anything >> > useful. I think that this is somehow related to the linux-vserver >> > virtualization. > > You can set the init style to plain for your 9.04 vserver and/or replace > the upstart package with sysvinit. Restart the vserver and you should be > able to finish the upgrade process BUT you will run into the upstart > issue after that (in 9.10 there seems to be no sysvinit package to > replace upstart anymore). > >> using upstart requires a specific guest setup, so why not try >> to install a new Linux-VServer guest with 9.10 first (make sure >> to have pretty recent utils) and check how it goes there > > See above. > Could you be more specific about this 'specific' guest setup one needs > do get upstart working? Simply setting init style to plain doesn't work. > > regards, > Tom > > > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.