I too had many problems with my "fresh" install of 7.2 on a previous 7.1
where I kept my /home, /opt and /usr/local and let it format my /.
The menu system is a disaster with numerous duplicate entries and many that
do not work, Kmail caused all my deleted messages to "re-appear" in the
inbox, my hostname changed to the default "localhost@local domain", etc.
I agree. An upgrade should not do this.
Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Registered Linux user 183185
- Original Message -
From: Jerry Sternesky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 8:37 AM
Subject: [expert] 7.2 Very disappointed
> I tried to upgrade a machine from Mandrake 7.1 to 7.2. Mostly I wanted
> to get cups installed and working on this machine since it is a server
> with a printer for all my clients. What the upgrade did was take a
> working machine and in 7 ours of upgrade time render it into a useless
> machine. It has taken my network configuration and completly turned it
> into vapor. I hear lots of success stories, but mine is certianly not
> one of them. The list of problems is way to large to go over here, but
> I have been fighting with this machine all weekend to recover it, and it
> looks like the only way to get it back is a fresh install. It looks as
> though I will have to wipe everything clean, and roll back to 7.1 if I
> want a functioning Mandrake distribution, which I am not sure I want
> anymore after this experience. Hell an upgrade should not do this to a
> machine. My main complaint is with what it did to netoworking, it seems
> portmapper is gone, hangs at the start of NFS services (obviously) and
> named errors out on boot. All things that worked well on the machine
> before this debacle. The only way I can get any resemblance to
> netowrking is to use ifconfig and assign the address and netmask and
> bring the interface up. Hell not even the loop back is available on
> boot. I am very disapoint in Mandrake for this release and think they
> really blew it this time.
>
>
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