Re: mkinitrd and glibc version problem in etch
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 07:14:02PM +0000, Richard Lyons wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:22:59PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:16:34PM +0000, Richard Lyons wrote:
> > I hope you kept backups and if not, make a full set before you do
> > anything else. That is, copy /home and /etc plus anything in
> > /usr/local, /var, /var/local, or /opt that you would want. This sounds
> > like its spirilling towards a reinstall. Sure it may be recoverable by
> > extraordinary measures, but a reinstall may be faster.
>
> Yes, I think you are right. yesterday I was in denial, but I'm getting
> used to the idea. I'd better erase the LVM and repartition hda, then
> install etch cleanly and swap back in my /home, /usr/local, most of the
> rest of /usr, /var/www, ... and then copy selected bits of /etc too.
> It is not so much a question of backups, as most of the variable user
> data is already on separate partitions. A pity. It was running sweetly
> enough before.
What warnings did you get about LVM? It is rather nice to be able to
resize partitions, but also migrate partitions of of failing drives. On
all my old boxes (that are still new enough to run Debian), drive
failures start with wierd error messages. Using LVM, I can migrate the
data onto more reliable drives, then stress-test the failing ones to
either get them working or just ditch them.
Doug.
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