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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ntdll.dll access violation error
we did an in-place upgrade of a windows 2003 server to windows 2008 server. After the upgrade, couple of windows services stopped working. The error i am getting in the event viewer looks like this:
Faulting application someservice.exe, version…

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debian 3.1 can be upgraded to lenny?
yesterday I "inherited" an ancient debian 3.1 machine to which I am supposed to add a few functionalities (mail, among them)
is there a safe way to upgrade it to a superior version ? if not, is there a repository for its debs ?

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Repository bugzilla package changed to bugzilla3 in Lenny - is it upgradable?
This question was asked in debianhelp.org almost half a year ago, but never got an answer. I wasn't the one who posted it, however I was today facing exactly the same question:
Hello all! We are using a Bugzilla
server install on a Debian 4/Etch
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How to restore redmine on an ubuntu server after a dist-upgrade?
I just became a new admin on a server (ubuntu-server virtual machine) that host redmine on apache2 and subversion in my company.
I discovered that the OS is Ubuntu Raring 13.04 that is out of date from January 2014!
I updated the source.list to…

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Auto-upgrading similar VM guest OSes
Is it possible to handle automatic upgrades of VM guests which differ only in terms of config management? I'm asking about either general or specific technologies which facilitate this. In brief, I have a number of CentOS/Debian installs which can…
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Update ubuntu automatically
I have just started learning web server administration. I have noticed that I get this update message very often on Ubuntu:
xx packages can be updated
xx updates are security update
When I see it I do:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
If…

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Will unattended-upgrades automatically fix shellshock (cve-2014-6271)?
I've got unattended-upgrades on ubuntu-12.04.5 set to automatically install security updates. Is that going to take care of shellshock (cve-2014-6271)?

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Upgrade SATA drive on Dell Poweredge 1950, RAID 1, Ubuntu server
My current set up is a Dell PowerEdge 1950, two 250GB SATA drives, RAID 1, OS is Ubuntu server. Using it for running OTRS (open source help desk).
I'd like to upgrade the drives to the maximum capacity possible, and it's my understanding that 2TB is…

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Using newer version of php on server
What are my options if the version of PHP packaged with Debian Wheezy is too old and I want to run something newer? Besides switching to Ubuntu stable or running Debian Jessie (not great for production), is there a way to only install the new…

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Trusty Tahr 14.04 update disables SSH
Ive recently been updating some servers on AWS from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to 14.04.
For some updates the SSH Daemon does not appear to start correctly after the final reboot. Although all other service appear to work correctly.
If anyone has been…

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ownCloud 6 Upgrade -- Lucene
I've upgraded ownCloud to 6 (just release) on a CentOS 6.4 (x86_64) server via yum update (no other changes) and the upgrade has failed with this in the owncloud.log file: http://codepad.org/wRRGNk22
Has anyone got a fix for this?
I've…

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Exchange 2010 SP3 upgrade fails during preparation
I'm trying to upgrade our Exchange 2010 SP1 server to SP3 in preparation of installing a new Exchange 2013 server to take over, which requires SP3 on the 2010 machine to be able to migrate. While all prerequisite checks succeed (1 warning related to…

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Why has SP1 for Server 2008 R2 left 4.5 GB of files in a randomly-named directory on my C drive?
We have been having a push to get all 2k8 R2 servers up to SP1, and I've noticed that some of them have ~4.5 GB of files left in a folder in the root of the system root (C: drive).
This directory has a seemingly random name, eg…

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Why adopt early?
Every time a new version of Windows comes out, I find myself asking why a company should start rolling it out immediately. There's likelihood for bugs that would be fixed in a service pack, so some would say its better to wait until a service pack…

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dpkg: error processing linux-image-amd64
After running
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get install -f
dpkg --configure -a
I get the following Error:
dpkg --configure -a
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.112) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger…

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