This has happened on *every* machine I've installed LM 9.0 on: Rebooting does not complete. For some reason, one partition never unmounts successfully, and that partition is always either hda7 for an IDE system or sda7 for a SCSI system. Very weird but true -- this happened on about 4 different workstations (3 dells, one compaq) and a compaq proliant server with scsi disks. Usually you see an "illegal seek" followed by "INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel" (which of course means that whatever process that was supposed to actually reset the system either died or was never started).
Second: my upgrade from 8.1 to 9.0 on the proliant server was pretty
rough, although I did expect it to be since it was a server with many
customizations. But what particularly annoyed me was that:
1. Now MySQL won't start as the mysql user at all, only as root.
Otherwise, it crashes immediately on startup without even having a
chance to log. Perhaps this is related to the fact that I chose the
"higher" security level during setup, but it's still a bug anyway, and
it's annoying. Yes, I checked all the permissions and everything. I ran
myisamchk a gazillion times over. I was on this for hours.
2. The kernel didn't load up the scsi modules initially, which of course
resulted in a kernel panic since there was no root filesystem to load.
This definitely should not be. After many tries, I ended up discovering
that unless both the scsi and ext3 options were directly compiled into
the kernel (rather than as modules), I wouldn't get a filesystem to boot
with.
Endnote: 9.0 is a fine product...I love a lot of things about it --
msec, the new config tools, gnome 2, kde 3, openoffice etc. But some of
these bugs could use some work, and it would be of great benefit if the
Dell 4500-related bugs could be fixed as well.
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