[Cialug] The Joy of Updates (aka MDV 2006 to 2007.1)

[David Champion]

I updated my server from Mandriva 2006 to 2007.1 yesterday. Had a couple
of issues that were a joy to track down and fix.

1. Networking - for some reason, the ifcfg-eth0 script had the gateway
specified, and it was incorrect (.1 when it should have been .254). A
quick call to my ISP, and I was hit in the head with the clue-by-four.

2. pam_stack module deprecation. Say what? Yeah, you heard me right.
First problem was "su" didn't work at all. If you tried to su to any
user, it would immediately come back with an incorrect password error.
Also found that spamc (from spamassassin), courier-imap and some other
things wouldn't run, or would run but couldn't authenticate users.

Here's what I found:

See Fedora instructions and release notes for more details.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2005-October/msg00050.html
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2005-October/msg00084.html
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc5/test2-latest-en/sn-package-notes
.html

Example: had to change /etc/pam.d/imap from this:

auth       required     pam_nologin.so
auth       required     pam_stack.so service=system-auth
account    required     pam_stack.so service=system-auth
session    required     pam_stack.so service=system-auth

To this:

auth    include system-auth
account include system-auth
session include system-auth

3. Apache updates - several directives were deprecated, like "Allow
From" and "Order". After only 15 minutes of searching for those, fixing
them, trying to restart httpd, I got that working. Then when I ran the
updates again, it broke another set of those.

Other than that, it went perfectly. :)

-dc