Re: [PLUG] problems with mandrake upgrade

["Chris Campbell" <soup@systemtoolbox.com>]

Adam,

You'll probably find that your smbd won't start either.  I have major issues
with the upgrade - and the smbd problem
occurs in all Mandrake versions after 7.1.  (This isn't an issue if this is
just a workstation as you can still mount smb shares but as a server, it's
useless.)

If you don't need the smb stuff, I would do a fresh install;  if you do need
to be a samba server, I'd consider another distro/version.

~Soup


----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Schaible" <taxindeath@yahoo.com>
To: <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 12:46 AM
Subject: [PLUG] problems with mandrake upgrade


> Hi everyone, I decided I wanted to upgrade from
> Mandrake 7.1 to 8.0 after being impressed with a
> friend's install. I burned some CDs, backed up
> important files, and chose the "upgrade" option from
> the Install CD. It replaced a bunch of my packages,
> but it also seems to have run roughshod over all of my
> configuration files... I can't use my modem (ttyS3 is
> now mapped as a "phantom" port, the symbolic link to
> /dev/modem is busted, setserial says the port is
> "busy".) I also can't start X because it looks like
> .xinitrc and .xsession got vaporized :)
>
> Has anyone else had problems using the "upgrade"
> feature? It might seem like the easy way out, but I'm
> very tempted to try a fresh install on reformatted
> partitions and then restore my personal files from
> backup.
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> -Adam
>
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