updating raspbian jessie to stretch

[jobsworth6912]

my advice to anybody is not to update raspbian jessie to raspbian stretch.
after 2 days i now have 2 dead pi's. a zero W and a 3b.
all appears to go well - change jessie to stretch in /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, apt-get dist-upgrade with a few extra checks and then reboot.
zero W has no wlan0 and so no wifi despite all checks.
3b just sits there with blinking lights and no desktop.
unlike on a debian distribution there is no recovery mode.
so i am left with 2 dead pi's.
now downloading a fresh copy of raspbian which includes stretch.
it is easy now to understand why raspbian is distributed as a disk image.
it would take too long to do an install which is what is an upgrade.
end of rant.

[fruitoftheloom]

my advice to anybody is not to update raspbian jessie to raspbian stretch.
after 2 days i now have 2 dead pi's. a zero W and a 3b.
all appears to go well - change jessie to stretch in /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, apt-get dist-upgrade with a few extra checks and then reboot.
zero W has no wlan0 and so no wifi despite all checks.
3b just sits there with blinking lights and no desktop.
unlike on a debian distribution there is no recovery mode.
so i am left with 2 dead pi's.
now downloading a fresh copy of raspbian which includes stretch.
it is easy now to understand why raspbian is distributed as a disk image.
it would take too long to do an install which is what is an upgrade.
end of rant.

In the BLOG it states:

""Upgrading an existing Jessie image is possible, but is not guaranteed to work in every circumstance. If you wish to try upgrading a Jessie image to Stretch, we strongly recommend taking a backup first – we can accept no responsibility for loss of data from a failed update.""

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspbian-stretch/

[DirkS]

Well, I upgraded a 3B (with a lot of mods and extra packages) and had no significant problems...

[allfox]

I upgraded a Pi 2B and a Pi 3B, both work.

[jahboater]

I upgraded a Pi Zero W, a Pi2 (both Raspbian Lite), and a Pi3 (Full Raspbian) - all with no problems.

[MarkDH102]

My 2B with OpenCV 3.0.0 didn't upgrade - got error, then lockup and on a reboot all kinds of things started failing.
I started with a fresh image and am currently struggling along trying to compile OpenCV3.0.0 ...
Luckily I have a backup of my old image and this isn't one of my "important" Pi's...

[ShiftPlusOne]

my advice to anybody is not to update raspbian jessie to raspbian stretch.
after 2 days i now have 2 dead pi's. a zero W and a 3b.
all appears to go well - change jessie to stretch in /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, apt-get dist-upgrade with a few extra checks and then reboot.
zero W has no wlan0 and so no wifi despite all checks.
3b just sits there with blinking lights and no desktop.
unlike on a debian distribution there is no recovery mode.
so i am left with 2 dead pi's.
now downloading a fresh copy of raspbian which includes stretch.
it is easy now to understand why raspbian is distributed as a disk image.
it would take too long to do an install which is what is an upgrade.
end of rant.

did you update raspi.list?