[SOLVED] Distribution upgrade Stretch to Buster fails

[Roy Terhaar]

(6th Nov, 2019 03:29 AM)Nachteule Wrote:  

(5th Nov, 2019 07:55 AM)Nachteule Wrote:  I'll see if I can find a Stetch installation which I can upgrade to Buster. So, if I still have one, I'll install dnsmasq and apache before upgrading and see what happens ...

I did that upgrade 2 times today, both with installed apache and dnsmasq

Upgrade 1) apache and dnsmasq enabled and running

Terminal

root@kmxbilr2 ~ # find /etc -type l \( -name \S*apache* -o -name \S*dnsmasq* \) -ls
169432 4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Nov 5 12:59 /etc/rc2.d/S04dnsmasq -> ../init.d/dnsmasq
169673 4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Nov 5 13:00 /etc/rc2.d/S05apache2 -> ../init.d/apache2
169433 4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Nov 5 12:59 /etc/rc3.d/S04dnsmasq -> ../init.d/dnsmasq
169675 4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Nov 5 13:00 /etc/rc3.d/S05apache2 -> ../init.d/apache2
169434 4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Nov 5 12:59 /etc/rc4.d/S04dnsmasq -> ../init.d/dnsmasq
169677 4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Nov 5 13:00 /etc/rc4.d/S05apache2 -> ../init.d/apache2
169435 4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Nov 5 12:59 /etc/rc5.d/S04dnsmasq -> ../init.d/dnsmasq
169679 4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Nov 5 13:00 /etc/rc5.d/S05apache2 -> ../init.d/apache2
root@kmxbilr2 ~ #

Upgade 2) apache and dnsmasq disabled (all links shown above removed) and not running

Both upgrade sessions completed sucessfully without any problems

So I'm afraid, without being able to reproduce the problem, I can't help you any more at the moment

Thanks for the effort, but it might actually help me.
I will do a test adding those symbolic links manually first (if missing) and then try to upgrade.
If that does not work I can still do a test completely purging apache2 and dnsmasq.
If both tests still result in same error situation, then there is something else wrong I guess.
Will post any outcome later...