Re: Might wait with upgrade........
On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 10:02:31 -0600 (MDT) John mentioned this:
Re: Might wait with upgrade.........
> I upgraded my employer's Debian server over the weekend and the worst
> thing that happened was that systemd took forever to launch a service
> after I rebooted; and as a consequence, none of the jobs stacked up
> behind that launch ran (including starting the NFS server, which is
> how I noticed there was a problem). Solved with a reboot
> (frustrating, as I don't really know what happened). Since then,
> nothing bad has happened (except that Rstudio Desktop won't run...
> but Server is happy), but I'm crossing my fingers (OS upgrades are so
> much fun).
>
> Had to do it since I needed GCC 4.8 and my efforts to install it
> separately under Wheezy after de-Ubuntuing the box failed miserably.
>
> On Wed, 18 Mar 2015, Charlie wrote:
>
> >
> > Received this when I tried to upgrade my Jessie system:
> >
> > critical bugs of systemd (215-11 → 215-12) <Outstanding>
> > b1 - #780675 - systemd: segfault in systemd when running systemctl
> > daemon-reload serious bugs of systemd (215-11 → 215-12)
> > <Outstanding> b2 - #779902 - /tmp can be mounted as tmpfs against
> > user's will serious bugs of libfreetype6 (2.5.2-2 → 2.5.2-3)
> > <Forwarded> b3 - #780143 - libfreetype6_2.5.2-3 makes some fonts
> > unusable Summary:
> > systemd(2 bugs), libfreetype6(1 bug)
> >
> > So I might wait with the upgrade I think.
> >
> > Charlie
From my keyboard:
Hello John,
Thank you for that information. But as Michael suggested I didn't
have any problems. Though there was a momentary glitch with Lyx
coming up after the upgrade. Loading it the second time it
worked without error.
Thanks for your input.
Charlie
East Gippsland Wildlife Rehabilitators Inc..
http://www.egwildlife.com.au/
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