>Be a dedicated server owner
>Fuck up and have an issue you do not know how to solve
>Ask us for help

Huh... Okay, fine
>Machine has apt repos from 4 different system releases

>Nope.elf

Some folk should never decide to admin a machine on their own :|

@theKarlisK when you have 4 different RELEASE repos configured....

I would simply pull the plug.

It's usually the terminal stage of a snowflake server.

Someone just ran dist-upgrade over and over and noone knows what is configured and especially why.

You've now to unfuck the mystery of 3 release upgrades, maybe unclean (package|config|repo) installation's, missing / changed configuration, maybe leftovers, maybe old packages from non maintained repositories...

I could continue. ;)

But all in all, just pull the plug.

Set up a fresh machine, install necessary software, document and check / fix the fallout.

Everything else is just denying the fact that the machine can go poof at anytime and noone knows what to do.

@IntrusionCM That is actually what we suggested.

Seeing as it was a "dedicated", not "managed" server (The reason being, managed has our managment in its cost, but no root access), we would have to play a detective to un-fuck the server.

Funny, boss said the guy used to actually own a managed server, but... Decided to switch. What a fun turn of events.

@theKarlisK before, the servers we manage ourselves are, dare I say, pretty clean. And non standard stuff gets properly documented.

Did someone say docker?