Journal data loss warning

Tomeu Vizoso tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net
Tue Jul 15 04:49:20 EDT 2008


On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:51 AM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
> Just a quick warning to developers hopping between old and new builds.
> Today while trying to debug an issue with DNS resolution behind an
> Access Point I reverted (from joyride-2149) to the official release
> Update-1 703 using olpc-update. After running some tests and then olpc-
> updating back up to the latest joyride-2159, I discovered all Journal
> entries had been wiped clean.
>
> I vaguely remember some mention somewhere of the DS folder being moved
> or renamed, I guess mine just got zapped by that change. I'm assuming
> (hoping) it died going from 2149 back to 703, but can't be sure as I
> didn't check the Journal while in 703.

You have found https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7426

Everybody, please comment on that ticket.

Thanks,

Tomeu



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