Re: [K12OSN] Random logouts, inability to log in

[Julius Szelagiewicz <julius turtle com>]

On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Vern Ceder wrote:
> How much pain can you endure? How important is it that the system be
> working come next Monday?
>
> My advice would be to restore your old working system and then write "I
> will not experiment on my production server" 100 times. ;) (This is a
> lesson I have learned from experience more times than I would care to
> admit.)
>
> Then set up another box for the new system, install, configure, test and
> migrate. It's just not worth it to mess with your production server... IMHO
>
> Good luck...
> Vern
>
> Julius Szelagiewicz wrote:
> > Dear Folks,
> > 	I need advice. The forklift upgrade from 3.1.2 to 4.0.0 turned
> > into a nightmare. I've already burned the Christmas time off, now New Year
> > is coming up. The system as is, is not production grade. some of the
> > behavior (random logouts) tend to point to a memory staved system. That in
> > itself is strange, since I've run 32 terminals just fine in 4GB in v 3.x.x
> > and now i have 20 terminals in 4GB with essentially no memory free
> > (buffers at about 100MB, free mem at 40MB). My choices are rather stark:
> >
> > 1. blow away the current setup, reinstall from 3.1.2 cds, restore *old*
> > backup (data loss rather small - it is a slow period), upgrade Mozilla and
> > OO and wait for fixes to Fedora (weekend destroyed)
> >
> > 2. put up another server and spread the load to test the "memory
> > starvation" theory (weekend saved). if that works, i can wait for fixes
> > using new software, if it doesn't, i'll be hard pressed to go back to the
> > 3.1.2 version, because all the evolution created files won't be compatible
> > with the old version, so ' i'd have to upgrade evo as well.
> >
> > vote early, vote often. give reasoning, come up with a better solution?
> > thanks, julius
> >
Verne,
	you are preaching to the choir here - I've run k12 v4 from beta14
on 2 test servers without any real problems .... many, many people
reported full success ...
	your vote is counted with high wieght value because of a good
explanation ;-)