4 Jan
2011
4 Jan
'11
6:40 p.m.
On Tuesday 04 January 2011 17:30:33 S C Rigler wrote:
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Arnold Krille
<arnold(a)arnoldarts.de> wrote:
Well, there is a reason I haven't yet looked at redhat/fedora :-)
All kidding aside: I do know people having problems with ubuntu-upgrades. But
strangely enough I didn't encounter these. And I do crazy stuff like running
half the upgrade, then stop, then continue the upgrade after reboot. Or
removing the graphic boot-process plymouth from a headless system with no
graphics card and only serial terminal and network.
It certainly helps when you know a bit about linux.
And you learn the most when determining the cause of problems during upgrades.
The one thing that keeps you from learning about problems is when you re-
install your system for every small or big problem. There are only very few
problems that can be solved by a new install: Switching distributions like
from fedora->ubuntu.
Have fun,
Arnold
While I do encounter the odd failure in updates
every now and then, the
number
of catastrophic failures (possibly resulting in data-loss) has been zero
with
SuSE, Gentoo and ubuntu (*). The hours spent getting watching one system
to upgrade while working with another where much better used then the
hours spent
setting up a new system with all the small quirks and settings to
re-create my
needed working environment.
You didn't mention Fedora. I speak from experience, particularly from
upgrading FC8, and by "catastophic" I mean a failure that forces you to
scrap all efforts to complete the upgrade process and resort to a clean
installation. Usually the failure happens after you've wasted a
significant amount of time and is so frustrating that you will swear off
ever upgrading a Fedora release again especially if it is for more than 2
major releases. FC8 has been end of life for 2 years and a lot has changed
since then so expect problems.