Debian is re-installed as Jessie 8.2.  Things that didn’t work after upgrade like things executing out of /etc/rc.local now work.

     I could have restored it from backups but then we’d be stuck with the old version and the whole problem of upgrading again so might as well get it done.

     I am still reinstalling applications and tweaking various things but it is available.

     One thing that doesn’t work and will gradually be unavailable on all of our servers is NX protocol.  You will need to install and use X2Go instead.  The reason for this is that the freenx-server software has been removed from all of the repositories by the developers.

     This is a pain since X2Go does not support any version of Linux that is past the supported date.  Hence if you’re running an older version of Linux there isn’t anyway to use X2Go and now NX.

     Seems like the Microsoft mentality of forced updates has come to the Linux community in an unfriendly manner.  Well at least Linux updates actually fix things.