Alexander Skwar wrote:
>
> So sprach Leon Brooks am Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 07:33:56PM +0800:
> > Yah, MDK 7.2's update broke one of my systems very badly. Hand-repairing it took
> How did it brake your system?
brake == slow down / break == smash
It didn't slow the system down, it rendered it unuseable.
Amongst other things, it decided it had finished (no error message, just went to
the next step after install-packages) when about 40% of the way along the little
bar-graph. At that point it had switched on all manner of stuff in startup (nfs,
linuxconf come to mind) not useful on that system and removed a few unimportant
items... like network and inet for example. Made it kind of hard to ssh into the
system.
Emptied the font config file (so X couldn't find *any* fonts to work with).
Time estimates were far from sane... never went above 10 minutes, even two hours
into the update at about 30%, started out at 5 minutes and some seconds.
That may seem bad, but I have a recent Windows-ME install to compare with... 15
reboots, 4 of them planned, and still only fixed to problem temporarily. )-:
--
Microsoft has made a massive virtue of "making hard stuff easy";
underlying a lot of the products coming out of Redmond is the core
value of "Trust us to do the hard stuff for you". In that context,
it's commerically damaging to have revealed to the world-at-large
that even Microsoft can't rely on Microsoft to do the hard-stuff
(security) for it... and if Microsoft can't rely on themselves why
should anyone else? -- henley, on the Oct2000 Microsoft crack
