Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (300 mails)

[Bjorn Tore Sund <bjornts@xxxxxxxxx>]

50 klients of five major hardware groups, with variations within
each.  10 servers, all different, with very different hardware and
configurations.  Problems one the one machine where I have a new
Nvidia card, problems on the two servers where I have LVM setups.
No problem which took more than 15 minutes to resolve.

Radu, you loose your bet.  That's 47 kernel upgrades that went
without problems.  I for my part am still happy with SuSE, and
my pre-order for 8.2 is now in. :)

Bjørn


On 3 Apr 2003, Ken Schneider wrote:

> Compaq lt1720US laptop, no problems with kernel update. You need to make
> sure that your /etc/sysconfig/kernel file is correct regarding the
> bootup modules installed (for mk_initrd) and run mk_initrd && lilo.
>
> Ken
>
> On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 03:45, Radu Voicu wrote:
> > Hi, Bob!
> >
> > I am sure that your intentions are good, but I can bet that NOBODY upgraded
> > the SuSE 8.0 default kernel k_deflt 2.4.18 without any problem...
> >
> > I've tried on several machines, one was a Compaq Deskpro and other was IBM
> > NetVista... do you think that those machines are supported by SuSE??!?
> >
> > I don't want to start any flames on the list, but I'm pretty pissed off
> > because all those machines was in production and remotely administered...
> > and I've trusted SuSE like always... and they dissapointed me big time on
> > this one...
> >
> > Regards,
> > Radu
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Bob Vickers" <bobv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: "Eduard Avetisyan" <dich_ed@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: <arjen@xxxxxxxxxxx>; <suse-security@xxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 11:32 AM
> > Subject: Re: [suse-security] Linux-Server is frozen after security update of
> > kernel
> >
> >
> > > On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Eduard Avetisyan wrote:
> > > > I'm afraid it's time to ask - on what type of machine and what
> > > > configuration has SuSE tested the new kernel ;-) Maybe all
> > > > switch to exactly that type of hardware in the future?
> > > >
> > >
> > > It's also fair to ask the people having problems whether their hardware
> > > is on SuSE's supported hardware list. People can run SuSE Linux on any
> > > hardware they like, and they can ask for advice on appropriate mailing
> > > lists. But they shouldn't start whinging to SuSE unless they have checked
> > > the hardware is supported (maybe it is, maybe it isn't, I don't know).
> > >
> > > We should also remember that the traffic on this list is heavily biased
> > > towards people having problems. I imagine the upgrade worked flawlessly on
> > > most systems.
> > >
> > > And one more thing: in the days before the update was released the
> > > messages on this list were along the lines of "Why haven't you released it
> > > yet, it can't take that long to build a kernel?". Obviously if they could
> > > have a few weeks for testing they could eliminate a lot of these problems.
> > > But they have to strike a balance.
> > >
> > > Bob
> > > ==============================================================
> > > Bob Vickers                     R.Vickers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Dept of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London
> > > WWW:    http://www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/home/bobv
> > > Phone:  +44 1784 443691
> > >
> > >
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