two major failures after yesterday updates - anyone else

[Alan Cox]

> waits till you install new software to break. I've
> seen it happen way too often over the years in our lab
> at work for it to be a coincidence :-).

Powercycles do shake down hardware so there is more than an element of
truth to the belief. It's particularly visible for disks.

("How do you get a small disk array", "Buy a big one and wait for a power
cut")