How many times will I bang my head against the wall?

Before I realize that keeping my OS distribution up-to-date causes more problems than it fixes?

Usually it's just a problem that the database upgrade is drastically abrupt and doesn't carry forward useful things like, you know, data. Or configuration. But this time it turned out that the upgraded OS (OpenSuSE 12) was incompatible with the Linode kernels, so all hell broke loose. Which caused me to do a reinstall of the older version, etc. etc.

Anyways, I'm sure no one noticed the site being down, so I'm not really sorry. Just cranky.

EOM