Re: [MiNT] OT: Debian

[Mark Duckworth <mduckworth@atari-source.com>]

On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 22:10 +0200, Petr Stehlik wrote:
> I have about 15 servers running Debian that never broke after an
> upgrade. And there are tons of other people that never had such problem
> (I read debian mailing list so I'd know that). That's pretty weird. Did
> you try to trace it down, to let the debian maintainers know it, to fill
> a bug report at least?

It's been so long ago I can't even remember what steps I took.  The
debian server at work was the last one of a bunch of casualties, and at
that point i just had a policy (internal to me) to convert it to
something else.  The first debian issue I had was really many years ago.
Things could of course be better now.  But I stick with things that
treat me right.  I never made any bug reports for anything until gentoo.
It's easier to understand the source of troubles with gentoo problems
though which are usually just failed builds.  My current debian ppc
problem, cvsd rejects auth with a pam error.  Who knows if that's pam's
fault, cvsd's fault or my fault, so for right this second I'm stuck on
that.

And I mean before, it was like I upgraded and all the file handles were
consumed so I was no longer able to start new threads, reboot and it
doesn't even make to fsck ;)  I mean trashed ;)  And this has happened
on far more than one occasion.

Put it this way, it was so long ago, I'd be more than happy to try
debian again - that is if Fedora wasn't so good.

Thanks,
Mark