[LAU] Upgrading (was Re: Ardour and xrun markers)

Arnold Krille arnold at arnoldarts.de
Tue Jan 4 18:39:53 UTC 2011


On Tuesday 04 January 2011 17:30:33 S C Rigler wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Arnold Krille <arnold at arnoldarts.de> wrote:
> > 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.

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
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