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Re: Faure upgrade



On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:

> 
> Wow. That was hugely painfull! I just upgraded faure from slink a week
> ago to slink today and all I can say is -ouch-

Hey, I just did an update on the current slink and now "startx" is gone!
I have one very pissed-off user now. :)  But I told him this stuff was
experimental before I even installed it.

> 
> First off faure was running an unpatched redhat kernel so when dpkg was
> upgraded it suddenly decided to use lchown which didn't exist which
> completely broke dpkg. Installing a new kernel kindly compiled by someone
> else fixed this.
> 
> Then for some -insane- reason when libc6 was upgraded init decided to
> start running fsck on the MOUNTED! disks, needless to say we narrowly
> escaped massive file system corruption by rebooting.. Aynone know whats up
> here?
> 
> And my final gripe, apt Aborts() when you do update, why didn't
> someone tell me! :> It's fixed in CVS now, might make the 0.1.9 release
> which should be rsn.
> 
> Jason
> 
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