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I am working on a server, not able to ask the former admin about this server.

it's a debian server.

uname -or gives 3.2.0-4-amd64 GNU/Linux seem to indicate wheezy: https://packages.debian.org/nl/wheezy/linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64

when I do cat/etc/debian_version it gives: jessie/sid so indicates debian 8

however all sources.list show wheezy (debian 7)

There are some things not working quit well, so things seem to be screwed up ..... what should I do here? dist-upgrade?

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    Can you how an extract of dpkg -l ?
    – shodanshok
    Sep 1, 2016 at 12:44
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    I'd start from doing a backup (at least at file level via rsync) and try apt-get -f install, apt-get update; apt-get upgrade; apt-get dist-upgrade without changing sources.list.
    – Michal Sokolowski
    Sep 1, 2016 at 12:46
  • body is limited I get when I want to pastethe output of 'dpkg -l' in here (too long list)
    – michel.iamit
    Sep 1, 2016 at 12:56
  • weird sudo apt-get dist-upgrade says .... 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded...... should I just replace the wheezy in sources.list in to jessie?
    – michel.iamit
    Sep 1, 2016 at 13:33
  • Take a backup of all critical data, restore it onto a reasonably-configured server, and then shoot this disaster of frankenserver in the head.
    – EEAA
    Sep 2, 2016 at 15:38

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I followed this link:

Upgrade Debian release 7.11 (wheezy) to 8.5 (jessie)

and added this to /ect/apt/sources.list

deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie main
deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie main

deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie-updates main
deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie-updates main

deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main

after this did a apt-get update and apt-get upgrade

this installed a lot of stuff

than rebooted....

and this seem to work already better.

now I find:

uname -r

3.2.0-4-amd64

sudo cat /etc/debian_version

8.5

and after this I did the dist-upgrade:

now:

uname -r

3.16.0-4-amd64

sudo cat /etc/debian_version

8.5

And now everything seem to work just fine again!

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