Druid wrote: > hahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahaahahahahahahah > > hope you had lost all your data > I'm very surprised you can read...there weren't any pictures in my post, however, for your edification and delight, I maintain good backups and rsync several repositories just for situations like this. Go back to sucking your pacifier....
> On 12/5/07, Richard Creighton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I feel like taking my favorite deity's name in vain so he would smite me >> off of the face of the earth because I couldn't be madder in hell than I >> am now at openSuSE's updater program. >> >> I have a raid disk controller that is not directly supported by any >> kernel issued by openSuSE. Worse, there are kernels that will not >> compile the source of the controller card so when I get a kernel that >> will both compile and is compatible with the Rocket Raid Corporation >> rr174x controller that allows me to have a 2.5TB raid5 hardware array >> PLUS any software (MD) array(s) I want to define with a total of 9 >> drives on my system, I don't want things automatically screwed up by >> anyone or anything. I recently compiled 2.6.22.13-0.3-bigsmp and the >> driver for my controller assimilated itself nicely and I added the new >> kernel and modules to the appropriate directories and to GRUB menu.lst >> and rebooted and everything worked. As did the previous kernels (2 >> deep) which gives one a warm fuzzy feeling considering that from 10.2 >> through the 2nd released kernel of 10.3GM, I had to do without my >> hardware controller and to get stuff off of those drives, I had to >> physically reinstall a drive with 10.2 on it that allowed the controller >> to work. >> >> Shortly after rebooting, the updater said it had a security patch on the >> new .13 kernel and (I know, I should know better than to trust anything >> by now), it was small, a patch and I said, go ahead, it isn't installing >> a new kernel, just requires a reboot to load it into memory after the >> update.....Yeah, right!....It not only ate my GRUB configuration files >> and replaced them, it also destroyed (by erasure) all of the other linux >> kernels in /boot, their syms AND all of the modules AND sources in /lib >> for those versions!!!!! Dammitalltohellanyway!!!! >> >> It is about dammed time this automatic with no recourse destruction by >> update of erstwhile functioning systems stops and the updater and Yast >> updates give us the OPTION to KEEP copies of our current >> configuration. Somewhere back around 7-9, this was the default, and >> that was when drive space was expensive....now, there is no excuse to >> not at least make it an option at a very minimum. Thankfully the >> kernel did boot and was still functional with my controller or I would >> have weeks of work ahead of me rather than hours or perhaps days >> recompiling from source and reinstalling the backup sources and boot images. >> >> Get with it openSuSE!!!! If my name was Bill Gates, I'd be spending a >> few million, maybe billion, on lawyers about now regardless of whether >> or not 'free software' is exempt from destroying peoples work or not. >> I am that mad that if I were indeed him, I'd go from richest man in the >> world to poorest, paying lawyers to induce management at openSuSE once >> and for all to opt for what is right rather than what is expedient. >> >> Richard >> (a very pissed off dude right now) >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
