On Wednesday 23 January 2008 11:22:48 am D Henson wrote:
> The latest mandatory update appears to have killed my server. After
> running the update, as I have done dozens of times, the server stopped
> responding to mouse and keyboard input. Ah, xserver problem, thought I.
> Ctrl-alt-backspace. Now I'm looking at the system console @, I think,
> runlevel 5. I tried various commands such as xdm, gdm, xserver, etc.
> (I'm not a CLI guy.) None of the commands did anything useful. Now for
> the really stupid part. I decided to simulate a power failure. This
> resulted in a reboot and the reboot attempted to give me a gui logon
> screen (the little clock icon was running) but it never actually got
> there. I decided I need some help.
>
> First, be careful when applying this update. Second, does anyone know
> how I can recover from this upate? I had a very busy day planned so any
> assistance will be sincerely appreciated.
>
> Don Henson
Which 'server', http, ftp, dns, ldap, etc ???
This mornings 'update' was a suggested update for a security reason.
Updates are suggested but never 'manditory' as you don't 'have' to
update,
your choice, I think you can even mark them as 'don't bug me again about this
one'..
I read your message after I had done an update, did a reboot for fun
and my
computer is still running.
If your 'server' is critical you should test updates on a similar
system
before you commit to something so critical.
Hope you fix your problem...
Mike
--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
