A Fedora User For the Long Haul

A Fedora User For the Long Haul

Posted Oct 27, 2006 3:48 UTC (Fri) by Pc5Y9sbv (guest, #41328)
In reply to: A Fedora User For the Long Haul by at2000
Parent article: An empty legacy

Which attitude is that? I am saying the upgrade DID work, and would have had near zero downtime if I hadn't tried to do it to a system that was 98% full when I started.

This was a completely remote, network based upgrade by pointing yum at a mirror site, installing the new fedora-release package, running "yum upgrade", and then rebooting with the new kernel at the end. I did this via ssh... My extra grief was clearing some space and running "yum upgrade" again in the middle, following by a search through all packages sorted by install time to find a few orphans to delete.

My attitude about not trusting upgrades predates RedHat, and comes from my experience with Slackware, SLS, and older non-Linux environments...

Also, the problem with the oom-killer storms was reported also by Ubuntu and Debian users when I did a web search. It seems to be a very erratic bug, not tied to any particular distribution or kernel version.

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