Well, I thought things were looking up. I downgraded Apache 2.0 back to the normal version to get PHP and mySQL working. Learned a lot in the process about Apache ;-)
One thing I noticed is that Bluecurve graphical interface (while pretty) doesn't have any icons at the bottom. All the 'spots' are just gears. What happened there? Shouldn't there be something useful in each of those spots? KDE just doesn't work at all. Won't even load. :( But here's the real kick in the balls. I noticed that my rhn account showed 835 packages to be updated. Clearly this is an indication the server and rhn are out of synch. So several times I try to have it automate a synch. Each time I check back, I notice nothing has changed. So I figure I'll remove the server from rhn and just re-register it from scratch. No biggie right? I do the delete, then try to run "rhn_register" and get a "command not found". Hmm... [root@daevid update]# locate rhn_register /var/spool/up2date/rhn_register-gnome-2.7.9-7.x.2.i386.hdr /var/spool/up2date/rhn_register-2.7.9-7.x.2.i386.hdr /var/spool/up2date/rhn_register-2.7.9-7.x.2.i386.rpm /var/spool/up2date/rhn_register-gnome-2.7.9-7.x.2.i386.rpm /etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhn_register.rpmnew /etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhn_register.rpmsave /etc/pam.d/rhn_register.rpmnew /etc/security/console.apps/rhn_register.rpmnew Sure enough. There is no command? Okay, that sux... So I look on CD1 and grab the grip of rhn_ files and figure I'll start to just 'rpm -Uvh' them all again, mebbe the upgrader missed one along the way? Except the command is taking forever! I abort and try some other .rpm files. Same thing. Any .rpm I try to install/update/ -qa / whatever just basically 'hangs'. I can't even "kill pid#" to get rid of it. I have no idea why or how 'rpm' stopped working. I don't usually muck with my system as it is a live server. I mean, it did work at one point, as I've installed a few programs like "ntop" and "squirrelmail" since the upgrade. But nothing that should have effected this. Ugh. sigh. Anyone know how I can get rpm's working again? Seems like a chicken/egg situation. That is, how can I uninstall the /bin/rpm program and then re-install from CD again, when it needs "itself" to install. I'm scared to death to run the RH8.0 update (by inserting the CD into my drive and turning the machine on) for fear that it will royally hose everything it's taken so long to rebuild and get working (like it was before the 'f**kgrade' from 7.3 to 8.0) You'd think I'd learn my lesson not to trust an RHx.0 build, but I figured after more than EIGHT versions, they would have their shit together and the upgrade would have gone more smoothly. Jeesh. D. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
