On 2013-04-20 19:24:00 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > That's theory. In practice, old machines get no longer supported... > > I submitted a bug report (and a patch), but AFAIK the bug has never > > been fixed. I upgraded everything except the kernel, without being > > sure I could boot it again (udev incompatibilities...). That's why > > the machine was no longer rebooted. > > And if you get into a situation where the machine reboots whether you > desire it or not? Power, cosmic ray hit, dead cooling fan, other?
It was a laptop, so that power wasn't a problem. A hardware failure wuld have meant that the machine would be probably dead anyway (after the last boot the laptop was already more than 8 year old). This is actually what happened a few months ago: strange noises from the disk and I/O errors... > It happens. Even with UPS mains and redundant power supplies. > Hardware doesn't last forever. Will it boot? If so then great. If > not then you have a nasty problem to sort out and the machine is > down until you do. I would rather know about it on my schedule > rather than its schedule. Even if there were a software problem, I wouldn't have wasting my time to try to fix it for a machine that was almost no longer used (mainly just for portability testing), in particular if the machine couldn't boot. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130421223223.gg9...@xvii.vinc17.org
