The update is GOOD!

Benedict_White · 2005-10-02 15:22:01

Just thought I would give some feedback.

So far I have upgraded my home systems, that is one server and one laptop.

The laptop had the most to upgrade at 446.6MB.

All is very well. Some iritating bugs with some users crashing on KDE startuop seem to have gone and I have to say I am very impressed.

It seems to me a bit like upgrading from say a Model T Ford to a Ford Focus whilst driving along at 80 MPH, only haveing to stop breifly to turn the engine off and on for the new code to take effect.

Well done.

The only thing I would say is that the kernel line in grub does need changing to /dev/hda3 rather than the devfs /dev/disc0/.. etc.

I do still have that entry in /dev though.

Can any other distro do this?

Also, has any other distro moved to GCC 4.x yet?

I do like beeing bleeding edge for no pain.

Snowman · 2005-10-02 16:54:59

Benedict_White wrote:

The only thing I would say is that the kernel line in grub does need changing to /dev/hda3 rather than the devfs /dev/disc0/.. etc.
I do still have that entry in /dev though.
Can any other distro do this?

That's because the /dev/disc0/.. are symlinks made by udev. It would be safer to change to /dev/hda3 (that's what I did) in case that udev stops providing those links.

Benedict_White wrote:

Also, has any other distro moved to GCC 4.x yet?
I do like beeing bleeding edge for no pain.

Someone in these forums mentionned that Fedora and another distro has moved to gcc4.

sml · 2005-10-02 22:06:46

Yes, I read somewhere that Fedora moved to all GCC4 about 3 months ago.

jftaylor21 · 2005-10-02 22:08:26

I think the next release of ubuntu (Breezy Badger) is supposed to use gcc 4.0.1 also.

shadowhand · 2005-10-03 02:38:42

I'm downloading the update right now, feeling like a kid in a candy shop.

xerverius · 2005-10-03 08:47:36

http://distrowatch.com/search.php?pkg=g … #pkgsearch

Quite a lot distros are testing with gcc 4 but it seems to work fine with me.

Benedict_White · 2005-10-03 09:51:10

Some more feedback.

Had two kernel panics on two more non production servers :!:

On one I forgot to change the kernel boot line to /dev/hda3 so had to edit the line in the grub menu.

The other one I did the change first, but the problem was it has SATA drives, and they come up as sda rather than hda (SCSI rather than IDE)

So be warned, if you have SATA drives, they are SCSI not IDE drives and so /dev/discs/disc0/../part3 goes to /dev/sda3 not hda3.

Apart from that all is fine.

shadowhand · 2005-10-03 12:25:20

Yeah, upgrade is nice. Everything feels buttery smooth. My FPS didn't jump like Snowmans, but I use the nvidia binary driver, so I didn't expect that.

Only issue I'm having so far is that E17 CVS won't compile anymore because of libtool-slay (libfreetype and libjpeg errors) .

whargoul · 2005-10-04 16:48:22

Well my desktop got all screwed (something abot missing snd-* modules). I had to reinstall Arch. But everything is working now.

IceRAM · 2005-10-04 17:29:26

whargoul wrote:

Well my desktop got all screwed (something abot missing snd-* modules). I had to reinstall Arch. But everything is working now.

You only should have:
* disabled loading the module (adding ! before in DAEMONS=...)
* runned alsaconf
* reenable the module

ALL THIS is found on the forums.

Arch Linux

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