On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:28:57 +0100 Marian Hettwer wrote: > Try to look from a different angle here. > Say, you would have an old Debian Sarge release (years old) and you > would approach a debian mailing list with "something is weird with > locate", pretty sure you would get a lot of advises to upgrade first, > test then, and if problem persists, come back.
>From the blogs I've read where this happens it's far harsher than that, due to the bugs in Linux. Something like "what the fsck are you doing running a system that old your a danger to the internet. It's people like you that.." I've never seen a come back like "why's this Linux kernel such a danger to the world in just 2 months then?, every router on this street is running a > year old firmware! and the current firmware released 4 weeks ago has 2 critical bugs described as 'just another bug'" I'd love to see the replies if any to that. But this is OpenBSD and I assume your just running a simple firewall or on a closed network or know your systems services are "known bug" free. I'm surprised you've had so much help. Personally and If I had time I'd want to find out the problem but I'd be wiping and reinstalling from scratch anyway, especially with an unknown cause. Of course having install scripts makes that decision much easier. It shouldn't be hard to copy your configs off, just make a root drive backup first in case you miss something. Surely faster than reading the upgrade guides for 7 releases.
