Bug #89

rescue system should be updated from Debian etch

Added by admin over 13 years ago. Updated about 13 years ago.

Status:Closed Start:2011-12-11
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Description

The rescue VM as accessed via the "rescue" command from Xen Shell currently boots into a Debian etch environment. etch has been end of life for a long time and as a result it is not possible to easily install packages except by going to archive.debian.org for them. Also this means there will be unfixed security bugs in kernel and packages.

The rescue system has very little writeable disk space of its own (half the customer's RAM, by default), so installing new software isn't that feasible anyway. The security issues need to be addressed however.

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#1
Updated by vinaigre over 13 years ago

Maybe consider using Finnix as your rescue image. It should be usable as-is, but is also easily remastered.

I believe it's used by Linode.

See http://www.finnix.org/Finnix_for_VPS_providers

#2
Updated by admin about 13 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Closed

Replaced with a system based on debian-live, which is currently squeeze:

http://lists.bitfolk.com/lurker/message/20120420.155130.f4a33fcf.en.html
https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Rescue

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