[GLLUG] New to Linux and off to a rough start

Andy Lee ALEE at courts.mi.gov
Wed Oct 19 09:37:45 EDT 2005


I'm curious, what hardware are you running on?
We're running SLES 9 on HP DL380's and have had few issues.
I'm also more selective in patching. Novell seems to want to push
every update to every program you have installed, and that can
do bad things (Such as rolling back to older versions of some libraries
preventing Oracle's installer to run). We've found it difficult to impossible
to undo an update that's been applied by Red Carpet, or YOU. Depending
on what you have available, you may want to consider a fresh install
and then only upgrade the pieces you know you can/should. Do you have
other Novell in your environment? In our case our Netware per user license
entitles us to support on the SuSE servers as well. I've found them quick to
respond when I've needed advice.

>>> David Ray <daev67 at yahoo.com> 10/19/2005 9:09 AM >>>
At my work, we recently implemented SuSE SLES 9.  I
had autoupdates configured.  A few months ago, I
thought I had a hardware problem and purchased another
server.  It turns out, it was a patch that the initial
server didn't like.  It's patch 10455.  Additionally,
I tried imaging the server using SP2 for SLES 9.  The
server will hang after installing patch 10179.  Both
of these patches are Kernel updates.

Anyway, the server hangs during the boot process just
after starting the sound driver (Skipped) and the
Powersaved (Skipped).  I know the ACPI can be a
problem so I have turned it off in the BIOS and in the
system configuration.

If I boot from the CD, I can load the i2o_block and
e1000 modules and finish booting the installed system
OK.  But this won't work in the event of a power
outage that outlasts my UPS.

If anyone has any ideas, please send them my way.

Additionally, if there is a company you could suggest
who knows SLES 9, we may hire this issue out.  I have
been less than impressed by Novells support of this
product.  It's cheaper to switch to RH Enterprise ES
with standard support than to add Basic support to my
SLES 9.

Dave Ray, MCSE
daev67 at yahoo.com 


		
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