Re: Warning against preupgrade

[Kevin Bowling <kevinb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/25/2009 4:36 AM, Alan Cox wrote:

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:07:07 -0700
Kevin Bowling <kevinb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

  

2 out of 5 failures.  F10->F11 is completely unusable for any kind of 
"uncommon" setup, i.e. LDAP login, Linux RAID, Xen DomU.  Anything other 
than one IDE hard disk with default layout really.
    

2 out of 5 ? - I got 3 out of 4 fails including hitting error paths that
clearly were not tested because the error printing code didn't work but
spewed python traces - and yes its in bugzilla already.
  

One of the "success" required manual heavy lifting.  F11 Xorg didn't like the R100 radeon in my IBM x3650 server and absolutely crawled.  After two DAYS I interrupted and rebooted the box before it was done doing package cleanups.  Some careful work manually sorting out the mess seemed to get it going.

preupgrade-cli should not use a frame buffer of any type.  Think about TTY-only devices, or server BIOS that redirect console to ethernet/serial...

Anyways, be careful!  Clearly not for the average user, and woefully under-tested.

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