concern about the state of Debian
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I've been using Debian on my servers, desktops, and laptops for several
years. This morning, there was an update for my main server (lenny
amd64); I ran it and rebooted, like I have hundreds of times before, and
I got to spend 3 hours finding a way around grub's saying, "error:
initrd - unknown command" to get back online.
A few months ago, udev started replacing /dev/tape, the name expected to
be a link to the main tape device, with a directory. The Debian
maintainer said, "mt will need to be fixed, /dev/tape/ is the standard
for Linux system. If you disagree, feel free to discuss this with the
upstream maintainer." Of course I disagree. I replaced the directory and
made my backups work.
The nagios3 package won't uninstall because the prerm shell script has a
trivial syntax error (missing 'then' after an 'if') that would have been
detected instantly if it had ever been run. There've been bugs filed
against this; as part of my own filing, I submitted a fixed script. The
bug's still open.
My servers are still broken -- they wouldn't boot after a power failure.
All google found for me found was people saying "dunno", talk about the
Debian bug report on this, and (finally) a workaround from a Brad
Rogers, I think, that got them to boot from the grub command line.
Debian stable used to be completely reliable. Anybody have any idea
what's going on?
Workaround link:
http://osdir.com/answers/debian/20294-grub-failure-after-recent-dist-upgrade.html
You might want to print this on a piece of paper and hang it on the wall
in the server room.
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Glenn English
ghe@slsware.com
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