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[apemberton]

I have just updated my 10 active Rpi's to kernel 3.9.10 (thanks cbxbiker) http://www.xilka.com/kernel/UPDATE-KERNEL.sh, and updated from raspbian wheezy to jessie. Kernel updating doesn't take too much tome but changing from wheezy to jessie does require significant time as the update is massive. I also added the recommended modules which is significant in itself. I don't know what has been added but I think it is quite a lot. Apart from my relatively slow download speed 5Mb/sec - I must be in the styxz despite being a mere 35 miles from the centre of London - the processing time for the updates, for which operator attention is required periodically for config files, is quite lengthy. Don't expect to set up and go 5 minutes later!

Another thing is that two interfaces have been added which required reconfiguration of my mrtg server (mrtg.cfg) and associated html file.

Just for the record I shew info from the oldest Pi i have which is an early 256Mbyte model:-

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login as: root
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   `Y$$.                 ##     ##  #######:  ##     ##  ##  .#######  ##'    ##
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                           Debian Version jessie/sid
     Linux Version 3.9.10, Compiled #1 PREEMPT Sat Jul 13 18:12:37 MDT 2013
               One ARM  Processor, 192M RAM, 2.00 Bogomips Total
                                      pi1



Debian GNU/Linux jessie/sid \n \l

[email protected]'s password:
Linux pi1 3.9.10 #1 PREEMPT Sat Jul 13 18:12:37 MDT 2013 armv6l

The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.

Type 'startx' to launch a graphical session

Last login: Thu Jul 18 10:20:04 2013 from 192.168.2.28
[email protected]:~# cd /
[email protected]:/# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr b8:27:eb:b9:2d:f6
          inet addr:192.168.0.120  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:410158 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:230395 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:519107354 (495.0 MiB)  TX bytes:21497662 (20.5 MiB)

ifb0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr e2:d1:e8:f4:ca:c9
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:32
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

ifb1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr a6:71:01:bd:2a:81
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:32
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:6658 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:6658 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:415769 (406.0 KiB)  TX bytes:415769 (406.0 KiB)

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[apemberton]

Having just performed the usual 'aptitude update' and 'aptitude full-upgrade' on all my (13) Pi's, I found that Apache2 (2.4.7) was reconfigured (without my permission) so in effect, the web pages were dead. This also affected wget which I use on remote machines to grab some data updates.

I couldn't find much about the problem but it seems that '/etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf' was rewritten with a new default configuration. This is symbolically linked to '/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf' Fortunately I had an old version on a Sheevaplug and I used that configuration to edit the Pi's file. After a 'service apache2 restart' all was well and normal service was resumed. However I have unecessarily lost 24 hours of data and in a near future scenario, could have affected my home environment.

I note the same problem on one of my Sheevaplugs but the other two are fine. Not sure about Guruplugs, Tonidoplugs and Cubox's yet.

I can now confirm that my Sheevaplugs, Cubox's, Guruplugs and Tonidoplugs were similarly afflicted by the unwarned Apache configuration changes.