Lucid
Upgrading to Lucid Lynx went smoothly as usual, though by upgrade I mean do a complete backup, wipe disk, do a full install, install of the packages I need, and then copy back in the various data directories. I’m keeping with Pidgin and Thunderbird versus Empathy and Evolution. I also don’t expect to use Gwibber. As I had done a test install first with a beta, I was prepared what floatflt went missing. Looking at my Apache logs, that entry is gaining a steady stream of search results. I like being able to give back to the community in such a manner.
Having literally terabytes of storage and a 100Gb Ethernet sure makes this process smoother than it was a decade ago. At that time, I was using RedHat. I jumped shipped when it looked like RedHat was going enterprise and Fedora’s future was uncertain. While those fears turned out to be totally unfounded, I was happy for a while, then decided I wanted something that was more consistently upgraded, which led me to Ubuntu where I have been happy ever since.
I’ve been stepping up every six months, a practice that I have keep with on my desktop but I eventually decided I didn’t see the need on my server machine, and I kept that at the 8.04 LTS release. Over the next month or so, I plan to upgrade it, which means that I will have to relearn how to install things that have “just worked” like eJabberd, CUPS and Samba. I’ve recently remastered ssl, so that shouldn’t be a problem.
In preparation, I purchased an inexpensive machine. While it is demonstrably faster and theoretically cooler than the machine it is intended to replace, it turns out not to be quieter. The issue is that Ubuntu can’t detect any ACPI, and therefore the fans run all the time. I have been able to install k10temp, and sensor-detect seems to have found f71882fg, but I am not clear on how to proceed from here.
$ sudo sensors k10temp-pci-00c3 Adapter: PCI adapter temp1: +25.6°C
If I figure something out, I’ll update this post (or leave a comment). If anybody has any pointers for me to chase, comments would be appreciated.
Update: found the following in my syslog
Apr 30 17:21:38 rubix2 kernel: [25458.307469] f71882fg: Unsupported Fintek device