Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Dan Roberts d...@jlazyh.com wrote: Hey there - This morning I ran the yum updater through Webmin as I do every month or so - after about two hours I realized that I still had the same updating screen going - and no response.   Seemed strange. Simple

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 15:17, Dan Roberts d...@jlazyh.com wrote: As to the question below - I have that directory, but not that file. yum-3.2.8-9.el5.centos.2.1 (from CentOS 5.2) has /usr/share/yum-cli/i18n.py yum-3.2.19-18.el5.centos (from CentOS 5.3) no longer has that file. Probably

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 15:23, Lanny Marcus lmmailingli...@gmail.com wrote: I have always wondered about the sanity of using python for system administration tools, but this should be a yum file in /usr/share/yum-cli/. I found i18n on my CentOS 5.3 Desktop. It's in /etc/sysconfig/ The

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Dan Roberts
Hi Filipe - Clearly I have indeed got things broken - # rpm -q yum package yum is not installed So I downloaded the rpm for a reinstall as you suggested - but clearly I have more to get and install - I downloaded to my home directory and ran the rpm -Uvh from there # rpm -Uvh --force

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 15:40, Dan Roberts d...@jlazyh.com wrote: # rpm -Uvh --force yum-3.2.19-18.el5.centos.noarch.rpm error: Failed dependencies:        rpm = 0:4.4.2 is needed by yum-3.2.19-18.el5.centos.noarch        rpm-python is needed by yum-3.2.19-18.el5.centos.noarch        

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 13:40 -0600, Dan Roberts wrote: Hi Filipe - Clearly I have indeed got things broken - # rpm -q yum package yum is not installed So I downloaded the rpm for a reinstall as you suggested - but clearly I have more to get and install - I downloaded to my home

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Les Mikesell
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: Hi, On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 15:40, Dan Roberts d...@jlazyh.com wrote: # rpm -Uvh --force yum-3.2.19-18.el5.centos.noarch.rpm error: Failed dependencies: rpm = 0:4.4.2 is needed by yum-3.2.19-18.el5.centos.noarch rpm-python is needed by

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 16:00, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: I wouldn't recommend that you use '--force' for any rpm commands unless you know what you're doing. I suggested the --force just in case the RPM database already had the yum package registered, but the package was

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Dan Roberts
Ok - something truly bad appears to have happened.Yes, I will concede that cycling the system was a bad thing - but after two hours it should have returned from the update, still I was bad. There are indeed updates that it wants - and I went back to the site to get them, but then things

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 16:06 -0400, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: Hi, On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 16:00, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: I wouldn't recommend that you use '--force' for any rpm commands unless you know what you're doing. I suggested the --force just in case the RPM

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 15:05 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Once yum is basically working you might be able to yum install yum-utils and yum-complete-transaction to pick up where you left off. I had to do this on one box where the update process kicked me off and died with a bunch of duplicate

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 14:06 -0600, Dan Roberts wrote: snip I know very little about this, but maybe Felipe et al can fill in the holes. I recall times that folks on the list indicated an rpm rebuild db be done. Is that possibly needed here? Did the glibc get updated? If so/not what should be

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 16:06, Dan Roberts d...@jlazyh.com wrote: There are indeed updates that it wants - and I went back to the site to get them, but then things continue to show up as missing. # rpm -Uvh --force rpm-4.4.2-48.el5.i386.rpm error: Failed dependencies:        

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Les Mikesell
Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 15:05 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Once yum is basically working you might be able to yum install yum-utils and yum-complete-transaction to pick up where you left off. I had to do this on one box where the update process kicked me off and died with

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 15:37 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 15:05 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Once yum is basically working you might be able to yum install yum-utils and yum-complete-transaction to pick up where you left off. I had to do this on

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Scott Silva
on 4-22-2009 11:18 AM Dan Roberts spake the following: Hmmm - # rpm -uv glibc* -uv: unknown option Ok - so I go with -Uv instead # rpm -Uv glibc* error: File not found by glob: glibc* But this is strange because I know that glib-2.0 is there - fairly easy to confirm - is something

Re: [CentOS] yum update perl error in CentOS 5.3

2009-04-03 Thread Jim Perrin
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Olaf Mueller daily-pla...@istari.de wrote: Hello, if running 'yum update' on a CentOS 5.3 workstation, that was upgraded from CentOS 5.2, I run into the following error with perl. Any hints? DId you use cpan to update or install any perl modules? Have you

[CentOS] yum update perl error in CentOS 5.3

2009-04-03 Thread Olaf Mueller
Hello, if running 'yum update' on a CentOS 5.3 workstation, that was upgraded from CentOS 5.2, I run into the following error with perl. [...] Resolving Dependencies -- Running transaction check --- Package perl.i386 4:5.8.8-18.el5_3.1 set to be updated Traceback (most recent call last): File

Re: [CentOS] yum update perl error in CentOS 5.3

2009-04-03 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Olaf Mueller wrote: File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py, line 94, in _read_db_obj setattr(self, item, _share_data(db_obj[item])) TypeError: unsubscriptable object We're somehow seeing this error all over the place, which seems to be a problem with multiarch. See bug

Re: [CentOS] yum update perl error in CentOS 5.3

2009-04-03 Thread Olaf Mueller
Jim Perrin wrote: Hello, On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Olaf Mueller daily-pla...@istari.de wrote: if running 'yum update' on a CentOS 5.3 workstation, that was upgraded from CentOS 5.2, I run into the following error with perl. [...] It could also be a corrupted package. Try a 'yum clean

Re: [CentOS] yum update perl error in CentOS 5.3

2009-04-03 Thread Olaf Mueller
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Hello. Olaf Mueller wrote: File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py, line 94, in _read_db_obj setattr(self, item, _share_data(db_obj[item])) TypeError: unsubscriptable object One question: Your system has been updated to 5.3? Yes, I have

[CentOS] yum update fails

2009-02-08 Thread Paolo Supino
Hi I have a system that I'm trying to run `yum update` on. It fails with the following error: Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Check Error: file /usr/share/man/man1/xdelta.1.gz from install of xdelta-1.1.4-1.el5.rf conflicts with file

Re: [CentOS] yum update fails

2009-02-08 Thread Tosh
Paolo Supino wrote: Hi I have a system that I'm trying to run `yum update` on. It fails with the following error: Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Check Error: file /usr/share/man/man1/xdelta.1.gz from install of

Re: [CentOS] Yum update conflicts perl-Math-BigInt

2009-02-06 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Dan Carl wrote on Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:43:14 -0600: Removed perl-Math-BigInt now Mailscanner won't start because the forced modules probably overwrote the original built-in version, so that after removal nothing was left. Cross my fingers and hope I won't run into any perl problems, try

Re: [CentOS] Yum update conflicts perl-Math-BigInt

2009-02-05 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Dan Carl wrote on Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:48:23 -0600: add check_obsoletes = 1 does nothing Not in this situation, as you didn't tell everything last time ;-) file /usr/share/man/man3/Math::BigInt.3pm.gz from install of perl-Math-BigInt-1.89-1.el5.rf conflicts with file from package

Re: [CentOS] Yum update conflicts perl-Math-BigInt

2009-02-05 Thread Dan Carl
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Dan Carl wrote on Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:48:23 -0600: add check_obsoletes = 1 does nothing Not in this situation, as you didn't tell everything last time ;-) Sorry, I usually post too much info Correct. But there is no such file in CentOS. You installed the

Re: [CentOS] Yum update conflicts perl-Math-BigInt

2009-02-05 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Dan Carl wrote on Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:27:30 -0600: If I remove the conflicting perl packages won't this break MailScanner? No. It might break your Perl, though, if it overwrote anything from Perl. In that case you want to reinstall Perl. I doubt he would install them if they weren't needed.

Re: [CentOS] Yum update conflicts perl-Math-BigInt

2009-02-05 Thread Dan Carl
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Dan Carl wrote on Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:27:30 -0600: If I remove the conflicting perl packages won't this break MailScanner? No. It might break your Perl, though, if it overwrote anything from Perl. In that case you want to reinstall Perl. Removed

Re: [CentOS] Yum update conflicts perl-Math-BigInt

2009-02-04 Thread Dan Carl
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Dan Carl wrote on Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:13:50 -0600: I followed the Wiki instructions for setting up *yum-priorities*. I added the rpmforge repo I installed clamd without a problem. Now when I go to update I get conflicts with perl-Math-BigInt. add

Re: [CentOS] Yum update conflicts perl-Math-BigInt

2009-01-31 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Dan Carl wrote on Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:13:50 -0600: I followed the Wiki instructions for setting up *yum-priorities*. I added the rpmforge repo I installed clamd without a problem. Now when I go to update I get conflicts with perl-Math-BigInt. add check_obsoletes = 1 to the

Re: [CentOS] Yum update conflicts perl-Math-BigInt

2009-01-31 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 16:36, Scott Silva ssi...@sgvwater.com wrote: If you really need the newer version you might have to --force it. Bad advice. This is the exactly same reason why installing from CPAN is not recommended under CentOS. RPM is designed to prevent you from installing

[CentOS] Yum update conflicts perl-Math-BigInt

2009-01-30 Thread Dan Carl
I followed the Wiki instructions for setting up *yum-priorities*. I added the rpmforge repo I installed clamd without a problem. Now when I go to update I get conflicts with perl-Math-BigInt. Is the only solution to uninstall the base version and then install the rpmforge version? According the

Re: [CentOS] Yum update conflicts perl-Math-BigInt

2009-01-30 Thread Scott Silva
on 1-30-2009 1:13 PM Dan Carl spake the following: I followed the Wiki instructions for setting up *yum-priorities*. I added the rpmforge repo I installed clamd without a problem. Now when I go to update I get conflicts with perl-Math-BigInt. Is the only solution to uninstall the base

Re: [CentOS] Yum update conflicts perl-Math-BigInt

2009-01-30 Thread Mark Pryor
--- On Fri, 1/30/09, Dan Carl d...@bluestarshows.com wrote: From: Dan Carl d...@bluestarshows.com Subject: [CentOS] Yum update conflicts perl-Math-BigInt To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Friday, January 30, 2009, 1:13 PM I followed the Wiki instructions for setting up *yum

Re: [CentOS] Yum update conflicts perl-Math-BigInt

2009-01-30 Thread Sahil Tandon
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Mark Pryor wrote: --- On Fri, 1/30/09, Dan Carl d...@bluestarshows.com wrote: From: Dan Carl d...@bluestarshows.com Subject: [CentOS] Yum update conflicts perl-Math-BigInt To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Friday, January 30, 2009, 1:13 PM I

[CentOS] yum update fails: CentOS 5.2

2009-01-12 Thread Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED
It gets as far as telling me: Total download size: 207 M It doesn't ask if its ok. But if I type yenter it reports: Is this ok [y/N]: Downloading Packages: Then it does nothing. I can't kill it with CRTL-C, but I killed the yum process with kill -9 from another window. I retried it several

Re: [CentOS] yum update fails: CentOS 5.2

2009-01-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 19:46 +, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: It gets as far as telling me: Total download size: 207 M It doesn't ask if its ok. But if I type yenter it reports: Is this ok [y/N]: Downloading Packages: Then it does nothing. I can't kill it with CRTL-C, but I

Re: [CentOS] yum update fails: CentOS 5.2

2009-01-12 Thread Pintér Tibor
It doesn't ask if its ok. But if I type yenter it reports: Is this ok [y/N]: Downloading Packages: Then it does nothing. I can't kill it with CRTL-C, but I killed the yum process with kill -9 from another window. I retried it several times; same result. tried deleting

Re: [CentOS] yum update fails: CentOS 5.2

2009-01-12 Thread Spiro Harvey
tried deleting /var/lib/rpm/__* after killing all yum processes? Yum has command line options to do its housecleaning which I would try first. yum help clean What does deleting the __db files do that the yum clean all doesn't? (which I notice doesn't delete those specific files) -- Spiro

Re: [CentOS] yum update fails: CentOS 5.2

2009-01-12 Thread Scott Silva
on 1-12-2009 12:24 PM Spiro Harvey spake the following: tried deleting /var/lib/rpm/__* after killing all yum processes? Yum has command line options to do its housecleaning which I would try first. yum help clean What does deleting the __db files do that the yum clean all doesn't?

Re: [CentOS] yum update nfs

2009-01-09 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:40 AM, Agile Aspect agile.asp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi - when I'm running CentOS 4.4, and I run the command yum update nfs which version of NFS do I get - the version for CentOS 4.4, or the version for CentOS 4.7 (which I presume is the latest release)? Any

[CentOS] yum update nfs

2009-01-08 Thread Agile Aspect
Hi - when I'm running CentOS 4.4, and I run the command yum update nfs which version of NFS do I get - the version for CentOS 4.4, or the version for CentOS 4.7 (which I presume is the latest release)? Any help would be appreciated. -- Article. VI. Clause 3 of the constitution of the

[CentOS] yum update via NX connection?

2008-12-24 Thread Les Mikesell
Somewhere in the process of doing a yum update from a terminal window open in an NX/freenx desktop session, the whole session blew up - perhaps when ssh restarted or when freenx was updated. The yum update did not complete beyond that point and the session was gone when I reconnected. Is

Re: [CentOS] yum update via NX connection?

2008-12-24 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Somewhere in the process of doing a yum update from a terminal window open in an NX/freenx desktop session, the whole session blew up - perhaps when ssh restarted or when freenx was updated. The yum update did not

Re: [CentOS] yum update via NX connection?

2008-12-24 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Somewhere in the process of doing a yum update from a terminal window open in an NX/freenx desktop session, the whole session blew up - perhaps when

[CentOS] yum update glitch on latest update to 5.2

2008-07-17 Thread MHR
]# yum update Loading priorities plugin Loading fastestmirror plugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirror.hmc.edu * updates: mirrors.versaweb.com * kbs-CentOS-Extras: centos.karan.org * extras: centos-distro.cavecreek.net Excluding Packages in global exclude list Finished

Re: [CentOS] yum update glitch on latest update to 5.2

2008-07-17 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 7:01 AM, MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.9 is needed by package nspluginwrapper Something missing? This is a known issue: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455601 Akemi

Re: [CentOS] yum update glitch on latest update to 5.2

2008-07-17 Thread Johnny Hughes
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 7:01 AM, MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.9 is needed by package nspluginwrapper Something missing? This is a known issue: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455601

Re: [CentOS] yum update glitch on latest update to 5.2

2008-07-17 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 9:01 AM, MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ]# yum update Loading priorities plugin Loading fastestmirror plugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirror.hmc.edu * updates: mirrors.versaweb.com * kbs-CentOS-Extras: centos.karan.org * extras:

Re: [CentOS] yum update glitch on latest update to 5.2

2008-07-17 Thread Johnny Hughes
Lanny Marcus wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 9:01 AM, MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ]# yum update Loading priorities plugin Loading fastestmirror plugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirror.hmc.edu * updates: mirrors.versaweb.com * kbs-CentOS-Extras: centos.karan.org *

Re: [CentOS] yum update glitch on latest update to 5.2

2008-07-17 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Johnny Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 9:01 AM, MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ]# yum update Loading priorities plugin Loading fastestmirror plugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base:

RE: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-13 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 10:52 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/8/08, Kai Schaetzl maillists AT conactive DOT com wrote: snip hda3 and hda9 are your Linux LVM partitions, maybe they belong to one volume group, I don't know (your fstab would tell more,

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-13 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 18:37 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Rcpt-To: centos@centos.org wrote on Mon, 12 May 2008 08:51:46 -0500: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-13 Thread lannyma
On 5/12/08, Kai Schaetzl maillists AT conactive DOT com wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 10696956 4597688 5547128 46% / /dev/hda3 102486 22174

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-13 Thread Kai Schaetzl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Rcpt-To: centos@centos.org wrote on Tue, 13 May 2008 12:53:21 -0500: LV Name/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 LV Size10.53 GB And the output of pvdisplay. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# pvdisplay --- Physical volume --- PV Name

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-13 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 21:11 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Rcpt-To: centos@centos.org wrote on Tue, 13 May 2008 12:53:21 -0500: LV Name/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 LV Size10.53 GB And the output of pvdisplay. [EMAIL

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-12 Thread lannyma
On 5/8/08, Kai Schaetzl maillists AT conactive DOT com wrote: snip hda3 and hda9 are your Linux LVM partitions, maybe they belong to one volume group, I don't know (your fstab would tell more, there's also a graphical frontend for LVM in your desktop). From your grub.conf we know that it

RE: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-12 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/8/08, Kai Schaetzl maillists AT conactive DOT com wrote: snip hda3 and hda9 are your Linux LVM partitions, maybe they belong to one volume group, I don't know (your fstab would tell more, there's also a graphical frontend for LVM in your desktop). From

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-12 Thread Kai Schaetzl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Rcpt-To: centos@centos.org wrote on Mon, 12 May 2008 08:51:46 -0500: Mount it and have a look at that partition, does it contain the same stuff as your /boot partition? And this question? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-12 Thread Kai Schaetzl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Rcpt-To: centos@centos.org Ross S. W. Walker wrote on Mon, 12 May 2008 10:52:16 -0400: The proper location of the grub.conf is: /mnt/hda8/grub/grub.conf right, if that is the boot partition, there won't be a boot directory. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-12 Thread Kai Schaetzl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Rcpt-To: centos@centos.org wrote on Mon, 12 May 2008 08:51:46 -0500: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 10696956 4597688 5547128 46% / /dev/hda3

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-09 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 01:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: snip No, surely not. Windows installs only to one partition, the one you selected for installation. The other three are only NTFS partitions and can be used by Windows, but unless your wife installs something on them or puts data on them

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-08 Thread lannyma
On 5/7/08, Kai Schaetzl maillists AT conactive.com wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote on Wed, 07 May 2008 15:10:58 -0500: Kai: I am not using Windows Boot Manager. Grub comes up, as on the 2 boxes, where things are working properly. Just to be sure, it's really grub? You get a somewhat blueish screen

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-08 Thread Kai Schaetzl
wrote on Thu, 8 May 2008 09:39:15 -0500: Ah. This is where the problem on her box probably comes from! Last November, when I installed Windows XP, in English, my native language, I did not understand something in Microsoft's English. There were four (4) partitions for Windows (C,D,E,F) and

Re: Subject: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Ralph Angenendt
MHR wrote: On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rpm -qa kernel* kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 kernel-2.6.18-8.el5 kernel-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 How can I correct this, so the box will boot the latest kernel? TIA! Lanny As root,

Re: Subject: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Ralph Angenendt
MHR wrote: On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 15:48 -0700, MHR wrote: snip As root, go to the directory where the rpms are located (you can use 'find' for this if you don't alreayd know) and run: Mark: Syntax for the find

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread lannyma
On 5/7/08, Ralph Angenendt ra+cento AT br-online.de wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: Scott: Great! If I can locate kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 and kernel-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 I can use the rpm -e command to remove them and then yum update again and that should update the kernel in her box.

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Michael Simpson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ uname -a Linux compaq1300.HOMELAN 2.6.18-8.el5 #1 SMP Thu Mar 15 19:57:35 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ After rebooting the box, it is still on the original kernel, rather than on the new kernel. I just installed

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
wrote on Wed, 7 May 2008 05:27:25 -0500: I just installed kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 again. Was that correct or not? As you removed it earlier, yes. There doesn't seem to be any dependancy for it. AFAIK it's not necessary for operation, anyway, it's only necessary if something has to

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Michael Simpson wrote on Wed, 7 May 2008 12:15:35 +0100: do you have any mention of the new kernel in /etc/grub.conf? Note, this is only a symlink to /boot/grub/grub.conf ! Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread lannyma
On 5/7/08, Kai Schaetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wrote on Wed, 7 May 2008 05:27:25 -0500: I just installed kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 again. Was that correct or not? As you removed it earlier, yes. There doesn't seem to be any dependancy for it. AFAIK it's not necessary for

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
wrote on Wed, 7 May 2008 08:53:01 -0500: -rw--- 1 root root816 May 7 05:08 grub.conf got changed 5:08 today. Are you sure you booted after that? What does uname -a show now? default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title CentOS (2.6.18-53.1.14.el5)

Re: Subject: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread MHR
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 12:32 AM, Ralph Angenendt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erm. man find is one of the most hideous manual pages on a linux system (man tar comes close) - so a bit help from your side would have been nice. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I have never found this

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 18:30 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: -rw--- 1 root root816 May 7 05:08 grub.conf got changed 5:08 today. Are you sure you booted after that? What does uname -a show now? Kai: Yes, I rebooted, very early this morning. I just tried it again. My wife had been using MS

Re: Subject: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Mhr wrote on Wed, 7 May 2008 09:53:23 -0700: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I have never found this particular man page to be bad enough not to consult when needed, even for the first time (like I did, lo these many eons ago, when it was even harder to read than now) and the effort

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Lanny Marcus wrote on Wed, 07 May 2008 13:13:13 -0500: On compaq1300, I do *not* have the three boot options (original kernel, latest kernel and Windows XP). I have two (2) options, if I interrupt grub: (a) the original kernel (b) other, which is Windows XP Ok, that explains it. I bet you

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 21:38 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote on Wed, 07 May 2008 13:13:13 -0500: On compaq1300, I do *not* have the three boot options (original kernel, latest kernel and Windows XP). I have two (2) options, if I interrupt grub: (a) the original kernel (b)

Re: Subject: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread MHR
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Kai Schaetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would always use locate for that task, much faster, much easier. Not being familiar with 'locate,' I found its man page rather intimidating at first glance. I'll have to study it a little more carefully, but I should

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread MHR
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 3:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. I woke up about 430 this morning and I realized that rpm can locate the file by itself. :-)However, I want to learn how to use find that Mark (mhr) mentioned! Lanny (offlist): Thanks - I really did mean that in a good

Re: Subject: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
mail.gmail.com X-Rcpt-To: centos@centos.org Mhr wrote on Wed, 7 May 2008 14:04:55 -0700: Not being familiar with 'locate,' I found its man page rather intimidating at first glance. I'll have to study it a little more carefully, but I should also note that I ran locate to find my kernel rpms

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Lanny Marcus wrote on Wed, 07 May 2008 15:10:58 -0500: Kai: I am not using Windows Boot Manager. Grub comes up, as on the 2 boxes, where things are working properly. Just to be sure, it's really grub? You get a somewhat blueish screen that says booting centos in x seconds, press any key to

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 00:19 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote on Wed, 07 May 2008 15:10:58 -0500: snip You will need to make a list of all partitions. Not sure what the best way to do this would be. Probably fdisk. Run fdisk, then type p (for printing the partition table), then

Re: Subject: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-06 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 03 May 2008, Kai Schaetzl maillists AT conactive.com wrote: Message: 9 ?Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 16:31:50 +0200 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lanny Marcus wrote on Sat, 3 May 2008 07:28:10 -0500: Linux compaq1300.HOMELAN 2.6.18-8.el5 Ok. I just asked because you never mentioned you had

Re: Subject: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-06 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Lanny Marcus wrote: If there is some place I can check in a yum database or RPM database on her box, to verify the kernel version that's really installed (probably the original one), please let me know where that is. Thanks much! Lanny rpm -qa kernel* And: pup is a frontend to yum is a

Re: Subject: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-06 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 16:11 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: If there is some place I can check in a yum database or RPM database on her box, to verify the kernel version that's really installed (probably the original one), please let me know where that is. Thanks much!

Re: Subject: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-06 Thread Bob Taylor
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 09:25 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 16:11 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: If there is some place I can check in a yum database or RPM database on her box, to verify the kernel version that's really installed (probably the

Re: Subject: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-06 Thread lannyma
On 5/6/08, Ralph Angenendt ra+centos AT br-online.de wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: If there is some place I can check in a yum database or RPM database on her box, to verify the kernel version that's really installed (probably the original one), please let me know where that is. Thanks much!

Re: Subject: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-06 Thread MHR
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rpm -qa kernel* kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 kernel-2.6.18-8.el5 kernel-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 How can I correct this, so the box will boot the latest kernel? TIA! Lanny As root, go to the directory

Re: Subject: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-06 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 15:48 -0700, MHR wrote: snip As root, go to the directory where the rpms are located (you can use 'find' for this if you don't alreayd know) and run: rpm -ivh kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 kernel-2.6.18-8.el5 kernel-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 Mark: Syntax for the find

Re: Subject: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-06 Thread MHR
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 15:48 -0700, MHR wrote: snip As root, go to the directory where the rpms are located (you can use 'find' for this if you don't alreayd know) and run: rpm -ivh

Re: Subject: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-04 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 03 May 2008, Kai Schaetzl maillists AT conactive.com wrote: Message: 9 Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 16:31:50 +0200 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lanny Marcus wrote on Sat, 3 May 2008 07:28:10 -0500: Linux compaq1300.HOMELAN 2.6.18-8.el5 Ok. I just asked because you never mentioned you had actually

Re:[CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-03 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 02 May 2008, Michael Simpson mikie.simpson at gmail.com wrote: __ On 5/2/08, Lanny Marcus lannyma at gmail.com wrote: This morning, I did yum update on my wife's box. It did not update the kernel. I ran the command

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-03 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 02 May 2008, Erek Dyskant erek at blumenthals.com wrote: __ On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 08:39 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: This morning, I did yum update on my wife's box. It did not update the kernel. I ran the command again,

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-03 Thread Kai Schaetzl
*Have* you verified that you are not already on the latest kernel? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Subject: Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-03 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 03 May 2008, Kai Schaetzl maillists AT conactive.com wrote: Message: 61 Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 13:31:14 +0200 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Have* you verified that you are not already on the latest kernel? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ uname -a Linux compaq1300.HOMELAN 2.6.18-8.el5 #1 SMP Thu

Re: Subject: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-03 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Lanny Marcus wrote on Sat, 3 May 2008 07:28:10 -0500: Linux compaq1300.HOMELAN 2.6.18-8.el5 Ok. I just asked because you never mentioned you had actually checked. Just a kernel missing when you update is not proof ;-) I see that you have priority protections in place. Disable all your extra

[CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-02 Thread Lanny Marcus
This morning, I did yum update on my wife's box. It did not update the kernel. I ran the command again, and there is a response that no updates are available. Her box is a Compaq Evo D300v Celeron. During the past couple of days, when I did yum update, on my daughters box and mine (Dell

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-02 Thread Michael Simpson
On 5/2/08, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This morning, I did yum update on my wife's box. It did not update the kernel. I ran the command again, and there is a response that no updates are available. Her box is a Compaq Evo D300v Celeron. During the past couple of days, when I did yum

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-02 Thread Erek Dyskant
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 08:39 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: This morning, I did yum update on my wife's box. It did not update the kernel. I ran the command again, and there is a response that no updates are available. Check /etc/yum.conf and see if there's an exclude=kernel line Regards, Erek

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-02 Thread Bob Taylor
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 09:56 -0400, Erek Dyskant wrote: On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 08:39 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: This morning, I did yum update on my wife's box. It did not update the kernel. I ran the command again, and there is a response that no updates are available. Check

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