weird update problems

[Ed Smits]

Can someone explain to me this weird obsession with updating as soon
as it's offered, and when it doesn't work you actually try to clean up
your kernels? You have systems that are working well I assume, just
leave well enough alone until things get sorted out. I have production
Sun servers at work that haven't been patched in 2 years - if it's
working well why risk screwing things up? Unless there is a specific
problem and a patch to fix it we leave well enough alone.

ED




On 2/8/07, Gabriel Dragffy <dragffy at yandex.ru> wrote:
> SteVe Cook wrote:
> > Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
> >> Zachary Stern wrote:
> >>> Longshot, but maybe your cdrom drive is bad and so the install isn't
> >>> copying all files properly.
> >>>
> >> I really don't think so, because originally it had edgy installed, and
> >> it had been working without a hitch for the last three months. Only
> >> today when I tried to update it did I get problems. This escalated to
> >> the point of me reinstalling. Something weirder is going on, surely.
> >> Those packages referred to by the virtual package don't even exist. Have
> >> the repos been hacked or summat?
> >>
> >> Gabe
> >>
> >  From the home page of the forums
> >
> > Latest Kernel Update Issues
> > We have been seeing a lot of issues with the latest kernel update. If
> > you are having issues please see the following thread.
> > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=356408
> >
> > the thread is very helpful apart from confirming there is a problem.
> >
> > SteVe
> >
>
> Gosh, I hadn't seen that. Bit worrying - I haven't seen any official
> info on this, thought there could at least be an official announcement.
> What a shocking problem, linked with the kernel, no less. It seems like
> the first poster did the same as me, ended up removing offending
> packages and then finding that one could not install a kernel. Kerneless
> linux is not very useful. Not only a problem with Edgy repos but also
> Dapper, this is getting on for being an unforgivable faux pas IMHO.
>
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