ka1ifq wrote:
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 ???
I have just one machine which I refer to as my 'server'. Mainly I have
an NFS server and a samba server running on it.
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'..
When I click on the update icon, it tells me that I have 'x mandatory
updates' and 'x other updates'. I realize that you don't 'have' to do
the updates but how do I know, or find out, what a given update is for?
I read your message after I had done an update, did a reboot for fun and my
computer is still running.
It's already been brought to my attention that the update did not kill
my server (the machine). It merely caused my xserver to quit.
If your 'server' is critical you should test updates on a similar system
before you commit to something so critical.
Good advice. Now where did I put that similar system? :-)
Hope you fix your problem...
Mike
Thanks. Me too.
Don Henson
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