On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 18:27, Russell Davie wrote: > Hi > remember me? the newbie struggling with Mandrake upgrade, > well, I've moved and after a few interruptions.....
hihi. Yep, I remember. > so far > > At 10:54 PM 28/08/02 +1000, you wrote: > > >On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 18:55, Russell Davie wrote: > > > > > > >Actually, run > > > > > > > > /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs status > > > > > > > > > <xfs status> returned: > > > usage: xfs [-config config_file] [-port tcp_port] [-droppriv] [-daemon] > > > [-nodaemon] [-user user_name] > > > > > > xfs dead but subsys locked > > > so xfs seems to exist, though <status> is not an option? > > > >Odd. I guess you must have old initscripts... Or perhaps old xfs... > > > >The locked subsys thing it's talking about is a file > >/var/lock/subsys/xfs. Perhaps stop it, delete the file and restart. > > that had no effect hmmm... > > > > > > > but running same command in directory returned.... > > > ./xfs status > > > xfs dead but subsys locked > > > > > > and <xfs restart> returned.. > > > ./xfs restart > > > Reloading X Font Server config: [FAILED] > > > >what about: > > > > ./xfs stop > > ./xfs start > > both returned: > usage: xfs [-config config_file] [-port tcp_port] [-droppriv] [-daemon] > > [-nodaemon] [-user user_name] ok. That's the wrong xfs. that one lives in /usr/bin/X11/xfs. The one we want is in /etc/rc.d/init.d so perhaps I should be a little more explicit: /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs stop /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart > > >run urpmi with > > > >urpmi --wget -v --auto-select kdebase XFree86 libqt2 > > after doing a urpmi.update > then > urpmi --wget -v --auto-select kdebase XFree86 libqt2 ok, this was my mistake. --auto-select wasn't required (I wonder what I was smoking that day...). All the same that really should have done something more useful... Let's try making your urpmi config match mine. Failing that I think I'll have to get ssh access to your box to look at this or something, because those things really should work... So first of all, remove all your sources from urpmi with urpmi.removemedia. urpmi.removemedia without parameters will list all your sources so just go along and do the command on each one. Now, something I've learned since I was instructing you in this previously is that urpmi supports so-called "synthesis" files which are generally < 100k to download rather than the huge files you (I) was using previously. So, lets use sources for mandrake 9.0: urpmi.addmedia mdk90_net_cd1 \ http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/mandrake/9.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/ \ with ../base/synthesis.hdlist1.cz urpmi.addmedia mdk90_net_cd2 \ http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/mandrake/9.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS2/ \ with ../base/synthesis.hdlist2.cz urpmi.addmedia mdk90_net_cd3 \ http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/mandrake/9.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS3/ \ with ../base/synthesis.hdlist3.cz (the backslashes can be left or removed. They just mean that evolution split the line when I pasted it.) That won't take long to download. While we're at it. Can you find out what version of urpmi you're running? urpmi --help will tell you on the first line of its output. I'm running 4.0 here for reference. I'm hoping that the stuff with xfs above will get X running for you, but if not then I guess try the urpmi -v XFree86 again. [snip] I think we can safely rule out network problems. (really)HTH, James. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
