Observations of a Staff Engineer in platform (Linux & AWS; formerly Windows and NetWare in hardware). This started as an academic blog and just kept going. Currently private sector and genderqueer. Not an official blog by any stretch. Really.
SP4 hates this server. There is some obscure NSS something or other somewhere in the partition tables that is tripping up the NSS update. It'll install fine from the SP3 overlay CD, but as soon as I put in SP4 and reboot... wham.