Time for 8.04 to....hit the floor?

[lordcochise]

So I've finally gotten around to installing Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (upgrade from 7.10) on the Linux server at work, should go alright, but upgrading / updating Linux is occasionally like a reverse slot machine - you usually win, and even expect it to happen, but then on occasion something screws up that might end up really giving you a bad day. Worst

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[siberakh1]

Ah, yes. Ubuntu. My coworker just upgraded to 8.04. He ran into some odd issue on the install. Can't remember what though. I run 7.10. No upgrade until I know more of what bugs he ran into (and I'm in no hurry to upgrade just for the sake of doing so... not when I have more important issues to work and fix here at work). I'll let others be guinea pigs and work out the kinks if they want to :) I've got my box hooked into the xp box I need to use for other software (email, ticketing program, NT monitoring stuff when the NT guys are out, etc.), various netbackup and veritas softwares, etc. Fun stuff.

[lordcochise]

Went without much of a hitch, but beware if you use samba sharing. 3.0.28a now requires an option of 'lanman auth = yes' if you want to still have legacy OSes like Win98 or NT (pre SP4) to connect. Before it was no prob, but the Samba group finally decided to tighten the defaults a little. Without that [global] parameter, clients that try to connect will fail and their entries in the lanman hash of the string in /etc/samba/smbpasswd become disabled.

This was perhaps a 3 hour jaunt for me to track down the root cause as I had no idea prior to the upgrade, but other than that Hardy hums along fine.