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It’s late April which means time for another Ubuntu upgrade … 15.04, Vivid Vervet.

I downloaded the new release via “do-release-upgrade -d” last Friday, which took about 2 hours. Since I was leaving for Las Vegas the next morning, I didn’t want to reboot the server and run into problems before being out of town for four days, so I left it and then finished the upgrade tonight.

For the most part, everything worked, as expected after the reboot (and re-applying some customizations to affected configuration files). The biggest hiccup was due to the switch from upstart to systemd for the init system. Some of my services (AirVideo HD, Calibre, Pulseway, and UniFi) hadn’t started automatically (and wouldn’t start through systemd). I had to do some Google searching and put together .service files and clean up old init.d scripts but eventually got it all working. Also, my Plex Media Server package was completely removed during the upgrade for some reason so I had to re-install that (luckily all the database stuff was still present so I didn’t have to rebuild my library).