On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 05:16:15PM +0000, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > I'm surprised you've had so much help. Personally and If I had time I'd > want to find out the problem but I'd be wiping and reinstalling from > scratch anyway, especially with an unknown cause. Of course having > install scripts makes that decision much easier. It shouldn't be hard > to copy your configs off, just make a root drive backup first in case > you miss something. Surely faster than reading the upgrade guides for > 7 releases.
Boohoo. 7 releases. That's called backlog. Or dropping the ball. Upgrade every six months or every year and you won't have to suffer through this ! As far as I'm concerned, the major advantage OpenBSD has over lots of other stuff is that you can decide to update much more easily. The only question in 99% of the cases is: do you have enough time to do it ? The next version of the OS is always better than the previous one, and generally, all things that used to work do work still. If something breaks, it's considered a major issue to be fixed shortly. Heck, even though we sometimes mothball some old shit, we're agressively promoting the use of completely obsolete wacky hardware thanks to our obsessive-compulsive old-shit specialists. We have a track-record of still running on cheese boxes that the distinguished competition abandonned years ago. As opposed to a lot of other places where generally, you wait&see on the ml for a few weeks to make sure your stuff won't fall apart when you update.
