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I did an upgrade for my Debian server from version 7 to 8.

The upgrade was very messy, mainly due to an issue that I wrote here. I could almost tell the upgrade is not successful. But when I check the version, it says I'm already Debian 8.0.

Then I removed the linux-image-amd64 package, cleaned up my apt-get by apt-get -f install, and want to redo the upgrade. Now it shows no errors. When I type apt-get dist-upgrade, it tells me 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. So I'm stucked in this fake version 8.0.

I want to know how can I redo the upgrade in this case?

Thanks.

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  • You can verify by running apt-cache policy $(dpkg --get-selections | awk '{print $1}') | less. If there's no more instances of wheezy in the output, you're probably good.
    – Larssend
    Jul 13, 2015 at 18:19
  • @geewee thanks for your reply, but I'm sure the installation is not completed because the deb file did not even get unpacked. How can I remove the version and get a new install ?
    – hawarden_
    Jul 15, 2015 at 7:37
  • Have you done dpkg --configure -a to resume configuration of unpacked packages? If your system isn't very broken, apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade should resume the upgrade where it left off.
    – Larssend
    Jul 15, 2015 at 11:22
  • @geewee Yes I've tried this, it kept telling me 0 not upgraded when I use apt-get dist-upgrade. It's weird. lsb_release -a and cat debian_version tell me I'm at Debian 8.1 but I'm sure that's not correct.
    – hawarden_
    Jul 15, 2015 at 11:55

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