Upgrading is the process of changing a system to a different, higher/newer version. It is similar to patching or updating (and for some software, may even be as simple as applying patches or updates, but is generally more involved and more comprehensive than the process for installing patches or updates.
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How to investigate which services and programs are using glibc?
I'm planning to upgrade glibc on several servers due to CVE-2015-7547.
https://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.jp/2016/02/cve-2015-7547-glibc-getaddrinfo-stack.html
Before upgrading glibc, I would like to make a rough estimate of which services and…

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Check Local Windows Version History after Upgrade
Is there a way to check if Windows was upgraded from a previous version? I want to make use of the SetupComplete.cmd script, but only if the Installation was an upgrade (from Windows 7/8/8.1) and not if it was a fresh installation to a blank…

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Upgrading ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04 in which way affects old website hosted by Apache?
After the system upgrade, I found out that the websites hosted on my machine were down.
So, first of all, my apache2.conf file was restored to default (and I had to modify it again). Secondly, site-available files now must have the extension…

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Upgrading CPUs for my HP G5 DL380 - will the cooling suffice?
Just a month ago or so, I bought my first rack server for some personal number crunching. It's been great fun playing around with and I'm thinking about upgrading the CPUs to get more bang for the bucks ( and noise, lol ).
Is it likely that my…

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apt-get upgrade with exceptions
I am running Ubuntu 14.04 and have let it get quite out of date with packages that need updating.
There are a couple of packages I don't want to upgrade like tomcat, php etc.. but I am not sure how I can run a blanket apt-get upgrade to upgrade…

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How to upgrade gzip from 1.3.12 to 1.6 on CentOS 6
I want to use gzip -k from now on, but it is only available with newer gzip versions. How can I upgrade it on CentOS 6?

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vcenter server for windows 5.5 upgrade to 6.0 fails with error 1603
I am trying to upgrade our vcenter server wich is currently running 5.5u2e to version 6.0
But the upgrade throws the following error message during installation:
VMware Message Bus Configuration Service failed firstboot.
Unable to connect to…

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Redis memory usage impact on performance
While performing health checks of a Redis 2.8.19 setup running on an 30GB Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS, I noticed that Linux memory usage was split as follows:
Used memory : 10GB
Cached Memory : 10GB
Free : 10GB
The Redis database is going to grow in…

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Artifactory: Table 'artdb.node_props' doesn't exist
Trying to upgrade Artifactory 2.6.7 to 3.0.x and getting these errors/exceptions:
2015-08-14 15:37:53,979 [art-init] [ERROR] (o.a.s.ArtifactoryApplicationContext:196) - Failed to run configuration…

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What packages can I update in OpenVZ contained guest?
Recently I bought low cost (1$/m, 256 MiB) VPS based on OpenVZ virtualization. There are pre-built guest Debian 7.0.
I like stay with more recent Debian stable release - 8.0.
Is it safe to:
sed -i 's/wheezy/stable/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get…

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RHEL 6.6 pip after python upgrade "ImportError: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/array.so: undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS2_FromUnicode"
I originally have python 2.6 and installed 2.7 and want to use pip to install some libraries like futures (with an s :)). Unfortunately, it seems like pip's libraries has been messed up. When type pip on the command line it produces this…

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Debian virtual instance gives "No space left on device" during upgrade from wheezy to jessie
I'm half way done and the upgrade process has terminated in the mid. Its about my virtual debian wheezy instance setup under virtualbox that I was upgrading.
Output of df -h is as follows :
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use%…

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MySQL server has gone away error after upgrading Mysql version to 5.6
I have upgraded mysql version from 5.1 to 5.6.
Step[s I have followed :
I have uninstalled older version and installed new version.
Reset mysql root password
Restored DB dump of particular DB
Now I need to create new user and give all…

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Warning while upgrading MySql 5.5 to 5.6
I'm trying to upgrade MySql from 5.5 to 5.6 in my Ubuntu machine. While running command
sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.6
we encountered with warning like :
2015-07-01 18:47:58 0 [Warning] TIMESTAMP with implicit DEFAULT value is deprecated.…

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Cisco SF500-24P Image Upgrade to 14088 fails
I try to upgrade the system to 1.4.0.88 and it fails with error
Status: Copy failed
Error Message: Copy: SW code file is over sized
I am using HTTP for the upgrade. Any suggestions?

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