Alexandru E. Ungur wrote:
I just wanted to ask if anybody did a # up2date --upgrade-to-release=4.1 on CentOS 3.5 box?
I did it and I'm having a bit of problems. The box just dies... at intervals between half a day and a couple of days. Initially I considered it was a hw problem, so I had the tech support check it out, and they just switched the box with another, and put the harddisks back on the new box... Unfortunately the dying problem remaind so that's why I started considering that maybe something other that hw could be the problem. So did anybody on the list do such an upgrade, and was it all 100% ok ?
Its quite clearly indicated in the release notes that a cross Version upgrade from CentOS3 to CentOS4 is not supported. This issue has been covered in details previously on the list a few times, you might want to search the archives to see what people had to say.
In a nutshell, unless you really understand the implications of upgrading using up2date or yum, reinstall is the best option ( or in a pinch, use the upgradeany install option after you remove all third party rpm's and packages ).
- K