On Saturday 23 April 2005 14:24, Robert Sweet wrote:
Hello All,
Just thought I would give my upgrade experience. It was horrible. The DVD/CD situation is not right. Packages are missing on the CD's. My server (Dell Poweredge 2600) does not have a DVD, so I did my usual upgrade not thinking anything,
Not thinking anything! You're the admin for the server? You didn't plan ahead for the upgrade? And, since you thought it wise to post such nonsense on a public forum... Your post suggests that the server is critical. Since when do you run the latest 'n' greatest software on a server with vital data in use? If you have good reason to be doing so, then you should know NOT to do an upgrade. You should have done a clean install -- no doubt many others will atest to that.
well upgrade went along, a couple of errors and I got a list of packages to remove, I scanned through them, pushed okay, I didn't see anything that I didn't mind losing. Well after upgrade, Cyrus IMAP was not there! It installed WU-IMAP! WTF I thought, then I noticed CLAM-AV was gone...amavis...etc. I looked on the CD's. Not there. Mounted DVD on laptop and reinstalled...now Cyrus has DBERROR and won't run! Ack...DLT is broken, I am up poo-poo creek now! Mail configuration is all jumbled, reconfigured, can't connect to LMTP socket....ack! Well after 5 hours everything is back up...without amavis. If this is the way Novell is going to take SuSE....I think my next stop might be Debian.
You installed the latest -n- greatest SUSE has to offer, then you make a comment about switching to Debian.?.?.? I don't understand that. Debian -- by design -- does not offer the latest 'n' greatest of anything. After all, their motto is all about stability, not cutting edge software.
I have been running SuSe since the 5.x series, and I always buy the boxed set. I have upgraded various times, and only do clean installs on big changes. This is by far the worst update I have done. I am scared now to do an upgrade. I almost lost 4 years of mail.
In one sentence you say 'update' and the next you say 'upgrade'. What are you talking about??? If you're the admin for the server then surely you do regular backups of your mail -- and all your important data. How then could you have lost four years of mail?
That would have really made my weekend! I was all excited last night when I got my boxed set at Fry's Electronics...yeah...upgrade time...new..new..new....BOOM!
Here is more broken stuff...I did the Multimedia update...NO MP3 now,
If you did the multimedia updates then you would have mp3 support. And, if you read any recent posts from this forum you would have seen that described many, many times.
also USB is not working...I have a DVD/CDRW that I bought for my server, which worked under 9.2, now USB keyboard and mouse don't work, along with Sony USB DVD/CDRW. Very disappointed. Novell better let the folks from Germany do the work. Becuase 9.3 has some issues. Hope this doesn't sound too incoherent...rather frustrated and tired. Need some more coffee. -- .~. | /V\ | Robert Sweet // \\ | Systems Administration and Installation /( )\ | www.garagenetworks.net ^^-^^ | 714.596.5504 Cel. 714.728.0014 Linux |
The sad truth is that some poor soul will come along searching for messages detailing how good -- or not good -- SUSE 9.3 is, in terms of performance and stability. Your message may scare them off; and your message is nonsense. Don't people search the archives before they post??? BTW, why do you need mp3 support for a server? I have SLES9 running on two HP Proliant servers and neither even has a sound card let alone mp3 support. -- Christopher Shanahan