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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