EPIC: Upgrade EOL Ubuntu Machines To New 24.04 LTS Version

[steelhead31]

Carry out an upgrade on all EOL Ubuntu machines to the most recent LTS release ( 24.04 ), and also upgrade some of the existing Ubuntu 20.04 & 22.04 machines to provider greater coverage.

Machines Identified:

• ubuntu1604-x64-1: {ip: 78.47.239.96, description: nagios.adoptopenjdk.net}
• vagrant-x64-1: {ip: 150.239.60.120, description: Bare metal machine to run vagrantPlaybookCheck and qemuPlaybookCheck}

• Set up Ubuntu 24.04 systems to be able to support it for Temurin #3501
• Commission 2 New VPC Hosts In Azure To Cover For IBM VPC Hosts #3589
• Replace Ubuntu 23.10 Scaleway machines with 24.04 LTS #3598
• Upgrade one x64 dockerhost to ubuntu 24.04 #3693
• Upgrade dockerhost-equinix-ubuntu2004-armv82-1 to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS #3692
• Commission 2 New VPC Hosts In Azure To Cover For IBM VPC Hosts #3589
• Add Ubuntu 24.04 to Vagrant Playbook Check Job #3577
• Upgrade/Rebuild IBM VPC Host To Ubuntu 24.04 #3729

[sxa]

Other machines that should be upgraded as part of this:

Host	Current OS	Status
ci.adoptium.net (Primary jenkins server)	Ubuntu 20.04
dockerhost-azure-ubuntu2204-x64-2	Ubuntu 22.04 [§]
dockerhost-equinix-ubuntu2004-armv8-1	Ubuntu 20.04 [§]
dockerhost-osuosl-ubutu2004-ppc64le-1	Ubuntu 20.04 [§]
test-ibmcloud-ubuntu1604-x64-1	Ubuntu 16.04 [†]
test-osuosl-ubuntu1604-ppc64le-1	Ubuntu 16.04 [†]
test-osuosl-ubuntu1604-ppc64le-2	Ubuntu 16.04 [†]
test-osuosl-ubuntu1804-ppc64le-1	Ubuntu 18.04 [†]
test-osuosl-ubuntu1804-ppc64le-2	Ubuntu 18.04 [†]

[§] - Updating the dockerhosts to 24.04 will mean that the kernel will be suitable for any newer docker containers that we wish to run.
[†] - These machines are running a version which is now out of standard support.

[Haroon-Khel]

ref Upgrade/Rebuild IBM VPC Host To Ubuntu 24.04

I managed to get the VPC machine, 150.239.60.120, into a state where it is receiving updates, but I am hitting dependency errors. Using apt --fix-broken install

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*
* The base-files package cannot be installed because
* /bin is a directory, but should be a symbolic link.
*
* Please install the usrmerge package to convert this system to merged-/usr.
*
* For more information please read https://wiki.debian.org/UsrMerge.
*
******************************************************************************


dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_13.5_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 new base-files package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_13.5_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Then I try apt install usrmerge to solve this, but I again hit the dependency errors, sort of like a cycle. I recommend that the machine be rebuilt

[Haroon-Khel]

@AdamBrousseau are you able to have this machine reinstalled with a Ubuntu2404 image?

[sxa]

@AdamBrousseau are you able to have this machine reinstalled with a Ubuntu2404 image?

FYI @AdamBrousseau has reinstalled the ibvmcloud vagrant host and once he's got the keys on it (I've asked him to put mine on then I'll add the others) we'll be able to do the setup.

[AdamBrousseau]

FYI @AdamBrousseau has reinstalled the ibvmcloud vagrant host and once he's got the keys on it (I've asked him to put mine on then I'll add the others) we'll be able to do the setup.

Done