How often to update?

[Riven]

Ver interesting experience ! I might just bite the bullet as well and switch
to 2.6.x kernels .

( BTW its xbaxe_lunar here from #lunar :) ive been reading this list for an
eternity and this is the first time im writing in ! /me yays!

On 14/11/05, Duncan Gibson <duncan at thermal.esa.int> wrote:
>
> > I installed a basic Lunar in August/September and have spent the time
> > since then in slowly expanding what's on there. As a Lunar newbie, it
> > took me a long time to get a 2.6 kernel built and configured to support
> > my wifi card, so I was a bit wary about running the upgrade in case I
> > broke something.
> > ...
> > I should have stopped here and investigated, but it was midnight, and
> > so I decided to bite the bullet, hoping that a complete 'lunar update'
> > would get everything back on track again.
> > ...
> > Went in this morning to find that four modules had failed:
> > ncurses, Python, oprofile and Python[yes, again!]
> > Rebooted the machine out of curiosity. [Danger! Will Robinson]
> >
> > Big mistake! It's lost my wifi settings somewhere, so no network!
>
> Running 'dmesg' showed 'version errors' where the [existing] kernel
> was expecting gcc-3.3.3 built modules but was barfing on the modules
> that had been newly rebuilt with gcc-3.3.4. Rebuilt a new kernel from
> scratch, but still no wifi. As Moe on #lunar pointed out, the madwifi
> kernel module for my Atheros based wifi had been rebuilt during the
> update, but for the [old] kernel, so I had to rebuild it again to work
> with the newly built 2.6.14.1 <http://2.6.14.1> kernel. A quick 'modprobe
> ath_pci' was
> successful, and I was able to reboot with wifi.
>
> Then came the fun bit. I had wifi, but was unable to startxfce4 due to
> a missing /dev/input/mouse0. After a lot of help and discussion from
> Moe, Florin and Nestu on #lunar I was guided through the process of
> downloading e2fsprogs(?) to update /etc/init.d/mount, removing devfs,
> then running 'lin udev' before rebooting to get my mouse back. [*]
>
> Sorted out the problems above. ncurses rebuilt without problem (as
> predicted by Sofar) and Python rebuilt after I replaced a broken URL.
> oprofile only works with 2.4 kernels, 'lvu eert' showed that nothing
> else depended on it so I must have installed it on a whim. As I don't
> remember, it can't have been important. So 'lrm oprofile' and it went.
>
> The same 'version errors' had knocked out my soundcard, and Florin had
> suggested to 'lrm alsa-driver' and configure the ALSA module in the
> kernel instead, but muggins here forgot that I would need to load the
> module into the kernel after reboot using 'modprobe snd_atiixp'. I had
> assumed that the snd_atiixp entry in /etc/modules.conf was equivalent
> to having the snd_atiixp line in /etc/modprobe.conf. Now I have sound!
>
> So, a major update to my newbie's installation experience page:
> http://wiki.lunar-linux.org/index.php/User_talk:Engelsman
>
> Many thanks to Moe, Florin and Nestu on #lunar for all their help.
>
> Cheers
> Duncan [aka engelsman]
>
> "The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything"
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