diff --git a/ctl b/ctl
index bd789644..1b93c214 100755
--- a/ctl
+++ b/ctl
@@ -1,17 +1,13 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 SERVICES="pandora pandora-tasks pandora-encoding pandora-cron pandora-websocketd"
 if [ -z "$1" ]; then
-    echo "Usage: $0 (start|stop|restart|reload|status)"
+    echo "Usage: $0 (start|stop|restart|reload)"
     exit 1
 else
     action="$1"
 fi
-self=`readlink "$0"`
-if [ -z $self ]; then
-    self="$0"
-fi
 if [ "$action" = "init" ]; then
-    cd "`dirname "$self"`"
+    cd "`dirname "$0"`"
     BASE=`pwd`
     SUDO=""
     PANDORA_USER=`ls -l update.py | cut -f3 -d" "`
@@ -47,18 +43,6 @@ if [ "$action" = "init" ]; then
     fi
     exit 0
 fi
-if [ "$action" = "manage" ]; then
-    cd "`dirname "$self"`"
-    if [ `whoami` != 'root' ]; then
-        manage="./pandora/manage.py"
-    else
-        manage="sudo -u pandora ./pandora/manage.py"
-    fi
-    shift
-    $manage $@
-    exit $?
-
-fi
 if [ `whoami` != 'root' ]; then
     echo you have to be root or run $0 with sudo
     exit 1
@@ -90,13 +74,6 @@ if [ "$action" = "install" ]; then
     fi
     exit 0
 fi
-if [ "status" = "$action" ]; then
-    export SYSTEMD_PAGER=
-fi
 for service in $SERVICES; do
-    if [ -x /bin/systemctl ]; then
-        /bin/systemctl $action $service
-    else
-        service $service $action
-    fi
+    service $service $action
 done
diff --git a/pandora/user/utils.py b/pandora/user/utils.py
index 86a21ae1..808aaa69 100644
--- a/pandora/user/utils.py
+++ b/pandora/user/utils.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from django.contrib.gis.geoip2 import GeoIP, GeoIP2Exception2
+from django.contrib.gis.geoip2 import GeoIP2
 
 import ox
 
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ def get_location(ip):
     else:
         try:
             location = g.city(ip)
-        except GeoIP2Exception:
+        except django.contrib.gis.geoip2.GeoIP2Exception:
             try:
                 location = g.country(s.ip)
             except:
diff --git a/update.py b/update.py
index bfa0a019..2c1de756 100755
--- a/update.py
+++ b/update.py
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
             ]:
                 run_sql(sql)
             run(join(base, 'pandora/manage.py'), 'migrate', 'system')
-            run(join(base, 'pandora/manage.py'), 'update_geoip')
+
     else:
         if len(sys.argv) == 1:
             branch = get_branch()
@@ -316,13 +316,13 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
             if exists(path):
                 os.chdir(path)
                 current_branch = get_branch(path)
+                if current_branch != branch:
+                        run('git', 'remote', 'set-branches', 'origin', '*')
+                        run('git', 'fetch', 'origin')
+                        run('git', 'checkout', branch)
+                revno = get_version(path)
                 if repo == 'pandora':
                     pandora_old_revno = revno
-                if current_branch != branch:
-                    run('git', 'remote', 'set-branches', 'origin', '*')
-                    run('git', 'fetch', 'origin')
-                    run('git', 'checkout', branch)
-                revno = get_version(path)
                 current += revno
                 url = repos[repo]['url']
                 print('Checking', repo)
diff --git a/vm/pandora_install.sh b/vm/pandora_install.sh
index ec77d3b0..65d776c2 100755
--- a/vm/pandora_install.sh
+++ b/vm/pandora_install.sh
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ NGINX=${NGINX-local}
 BRANCH=${BRANCH-stable}
 
 # add a pandora user
-echo Installing pandora with user: $PANDORA branch: $BRANCH
+echo Installing pandora with user: $PANDORA
 getent passwd $PANDORA > /dev/null 2>&1 || adduser --disabled-password --gecos "" $PANDORA
 
 #
@@ -197,9 +197,8 @@ fi
 if [ "$NGINX" == "local" ]; then
 
 cp "/srv/pandora/etc/nginx/pandora" "/etc/nginx/sites-available/pandora"
-rm -f /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/pandora
+rm -f /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
 ln -s ../sites-available/pandora /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/pandora
-ln -s /srv/pandora/ctl /usr/local/bin/pandoractl
 
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