Re: 6.6 to 6.x (6.8 now, I guess)

2017-01-27 Thread jdow
That sort of appears to be the case. I tried nuking it. There is still a libasound.so. file from other RPMs. So it's likely still workable. This WAS the main gateway machine to the Internet here for a dozen or so 'thingies' on the network. At the moment all it is doing is spamassassin

Re: 6.6 to 6.x (6.8 now, I guess)

2017-01-27 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Fri, 27 Jan 2017, jdow wrote: Ran yum --releasever=6.7 update sl-release Same error going 6.6 to 6.7 as 6,6 to 6.x (6.8). Transaction Check Error: file /lib64/libasound.so.2.0.0 from install of alsa-lib-1.1.0-4.el6.x86_64 conflicts with file from package libasound2-1.0.24.1-35.el6.x86_64

Re: 6.6 to 6.x (6.8 now, I guess)

2017-01-27 Thread jdow
Ran yum --releasever=6.7 update sl-release Same error going 6.6 to 6.7 as 6,6 to 6.x (6.8). Transaction Check Error: file /lib64/libasound.so.2.0.0 from install of alsa-lib-1.1.0-4.el6.x86_64 conflicts with file from package libasound2-1.0.24.1-35.el6.x86_64 What now? {^_^} On 2017-01-27

Re: 7.3 update problems

2017-01-27 Thread Mark Stodola
On 01/27/2017 01:42 PM, John Pilkington wrote: As I noted, my system seems to have updated happily. I started it from yumex by enabling the rolling repos. But I've just been examining my grandson's, which yesterday 'welcomed' him to emergency mode. I'm afraid he doesn't fit the SL target user

Re: cdrom not white listed ????

2017-01-27 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 01/23/2017 11:32 PM, Karel Lang AFD wrote: Hi, just quick search reveals quite a lot of things - eg.: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=760885 it says: ' CD-ROM passthrough from to the host to a guest has been disabled in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 Beta for all front ends. QEMU

7.3 update problems

2017-01-27 Thread John Pilkington
As I noted, my system seems to have updated happily. I started it from yumex by enabling the rolling repos. But I've just been examining my grandson's, which yesterday 'welcomed' him to emergency mode. I'm afraid he doesn't fit the SL target user profile and his access time is limited. yum

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] yum update on SL7

2017-01-27 Thread Pat Riehecky
Removing yum-conf-sl7x should perform the task. http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/7x/x86_64/release-notes/#_sl_specific_behavior_changes Pat On 01/27/2017 11:56 AM, Werf, C.G. van der (Carel) wrote: On SL5 and SL6 it was easy to prevent yum from updating to a new release, by

yum update on SL7

2017-01-27 Thread Werf, C.G. van der (Carel)
On SL5 and SL6 it was easy to prevent yum from updating to a new release, by disabling sl5x.repo or sl6x.repo. Still updates for the current release were found. On SL7 only the sl7x.repo is installed by default. How can I prevent SL7.2 from upgrading to SL7.3, but still find updates for SL7.2 ?

Re: successful 7.3 update through yumex

2017-01-27 Thread Maarten
I'm fine with nux-desktop also, wasn't planning on switching. Was just wondering if they were mixable, but seems can't be sure. On 2017-01-27 14:49, James M. Pulver wrote: Why would you want to use rpmfusion over nux? I've had great success anyway with nux. James Pulver CLASSE Computer

Re: Problem installing SL6x x86_64

2017-01-27 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- Le (On) 2017-01-26 +0100 à (at) 00:19:55 Franchisseur Robert écrivit (wrote): -- > -- Le (On) 2017-01-25 -0600 à (at) 13:48:55 Connie Sieh écrivit (wrote): -- > > > What method are you using to do the install? > > What url/media are you using? > >ftp/http >I tried first

Re: successful 7.3 update through yumex

2017-01-27 Thread James M. Pulver
Why would you want to use rpmfusion over nux? I've had great success anyway with nux. James Pulver CLASSE Computer Group Cornell University On 01/26/2017 03:59 PM, John Pilkington wrote: On 26/01/17 20:42, Maarten wrote: Great, didn't know that about rpmfusion now doing el7. Anyone know if