It's not just a bunch of people setting cm.swappieness to 0 is it? That behaviour changed and now prevents going into swap /ever/ where it used to mean go into swap as a last resort. Changing it to 1 fixes the issue and will act like the old behaviour or only swapping as a last result.

Regardless, it's things like this why we never recommend people use Ubuntu - years of poorly packaged and tested software. If you want a Debian based system use Debian (and accept that there's now a lot of missing packages are barely any proper SELinux or clustering support) or use RHEL/CentOS for a more complete district and add in repos like epel and elrepo as required.

Yeah, Ubuntu still keeps running out of space in /boot by filling it w old kernels in the default partition profile. A bug that I've been hitting since about 2011.

In spite of their best efforts, it is not the "grandma friendly" quality software it hoped to be.

amluto

My M.O. is:

  # apt-get update
  # aptitude full-upgrade
  # apt-get autoremove

Because as far as I can tell, apt-get sometimes fails to actually update things, whereas aptitude can't autoremove. I'm sure there's a better way.

This is my major gripe with the dpkg ecosystem. There are (AFAICT) multiple different tools to build dpgks and multiple different tools for updating your system, and none of them are adequately documented nor support all use cases.

The Fedora ecosystem is better in this regard. Want to build an rpm? rpmbuild is the only answer. Want to update the system? Use dnf. (Sadly, there's now also PackageKit, and it's not quite isomorphic to dnf.)

rzzzt

Others wrote "apt-get dist-upgrade" in sibling comments, which should do the trick. If you want to build packages for multiple managers, fpm is a nice front-end for some of them: https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm