I used MandrakeUpdate to bring my system up to date, but it warned me that I should upgrade the kernel rpms manually because there was a possible problem with ReiserFS. So I did. Rebooted the computer but it gave me lots of problems, resulting in a kernel panic. Then I proceeded with making a working bootdisk at another PC that hadn't been upgraded yet, so I could access my box again. Trying to downgrade the kernels didn't work, because all of a sudden I couldn't access the network nor the CDROM drives. So now I'm stuck here with a half-crippled box. Luckily for me the recompiled kernels work and I have net and CDROM access again, so I can downgrade these kernels in a minute. Now I'm the first to admit that it was pretty stupid of me to upgrade the kernel.rpms; usually I leave those alone, download the latest sources from the net and recompile those according to my needs, adding an extra kernel from which to boot, being the newly compiled test kernel. There is one thing though that I find paricularly short-sighted on behalf of Mandrake: there is one kernel called "failsafe". Well, I don't understand why you make a kernel and label it "failsafe" if you're gonna overwrite it with a new kernel, before it's properly tested. Because that is what happened. So for those of you out there that use ReiserFS: stay off the new kernel rpms; recompile your own from the sources, but leave the precompiled ones in place. And to whoever it is at Mandrake that maintains the kernel rpms, fix your specfile to leave the failsafe kernel in place when the rpms are upgraded. Just my $0.02 -- Rial Juan <http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgium tel: (++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee...
