zimbra on ubuntu upgrade woes

So I (and my co-worker) at my previous place wasted 4 hours because someone thought that skipping the boot prompt (in Ubuntu 10.04.4) is a good idea.

Try to do that in a virtual machine when you have to boot the server to init 1 because otherwise a service would start what you actually want to maintain. If that starts and mail clients connect your backup is not uptodate anymore...

The update process failed because of a stale pid file. We actually pull the 4 hours old backup, cleaned up that stale pid file and now everything is smooth.

... UPDATE: and now a kernel bug. Love you Ubuntu, really