# Pioneer not setup for upgrade to next release, but /etc/apt/sources.list is

**URL:** https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/pioneer-not-setup-for-upgrade-to-next-release-but-etc-apt-sources-list-is/3809
**Category:** Hardware Owners Support
**Created:** [August 10, 2025, 9:29am UTC](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/pioneer-not-setup-for-upgrade-to-next-release-but-etc-apt-sources-list-is/3809 "2025-08-10T09:29:40Z")
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### Author: ![Avron](https://discuss.freedombox.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Avron](https://discuss.freedombox.org/u/Avron)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2025, 9:29am UTC](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/pioneer-not-setup-for-upgrade-to-next-release-but-etc-apt-sources-list-is/3809/1 "2025-08-10T09:29:41Z")

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The Pioneer on which my email, ejabberd, radicale and quassel is running has ejabberd not working, but email working.

I ran diagnostics, there are 70 diagnostics failed.

The automatic upgrade to next release is unticked but it seems that /etc/apt/sources.list just says “stable”, then I guess it is setup for upgrade.

I am not sure what is the proper way to proceed with this.

EDIT: I have setup another Pioneer yesterday, with bookworm, nothing configured on it yet. After I have disable the “auto-update to next release”, the regular update fails. It also has “stable” in /etc/apt/sources.list, so I guess apt has seen trixie anyway. The manual update from plinth fails, so I decided to try an apt full-upgrade from ssh.

EDIT2: I decided to try the “upgrade to next release”, is is ongoing now.

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### Author: ![Avron](https://discuss.freedombox.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Avron](https://discuss.freedombox.org/u/Avron)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2025, 1:31pm UTC](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/pioneer-not-setup-for-upgrade-to-next-release-but-etc-apt-sources-list-is/3809/2 "2025-08-10T13:31:47Z")

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Next steps:

- sudo apt full-upgrade
- sudo apt-mark unhold freedombox
- sudo apt full-upgrade
- sudo apt install freedombox
- sudo reboot

At some point I disabled ejabberd, that was repeatedly failing to start.

Final result: upgrade complete but dovecot not working.

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### Author: ![Avron](https://discuss.freedombox.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Avron](https://discuss.freedombox.org/u/Avron)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2025, 7:12am UTC](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/pioneer-not-setup-for-upgrade-to-next-release-but-etc-apt-sources-list-is/3809/3 "2025-08-11T07:12:19Z")

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I also made a fresh install with the version at [https://ftp.freedombox.org/pub/freedombox/hardware/pioneer/nightly/:](https://ftp.freedombox.org/pub/freedombox/hardware/pioneer/nightly/:) `/etc/apt/sources.list` refers to stable, but it is bookworm.

Then I immediately changed `stable` to `bookworm`. The additional file for the backports refers to bookworm, so perhaps the issue was that I was upgraded to trixie (because of stable) but keeping bookworm backports?

I am going to restore based on this new installation. I have left the option for auto-upgrade to next release ticked, and after last night upgrade, there is a notification that it will upgrade to trixie in 38 days. Looks like a good idea to have some delay like this.