[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 04:08:20PM -0800, Joe Brenner wrote: > > > about typing "linux updates", and some time later I realized > > that I'd blown away NT from the Master Boot Record... my > > machine now boots straight to lilo and into Linux. > > Probably you still have the old lilo.conf rpmsaved---just use that, > and rerun lilo. Actually, I whined too soon about this one. Now when I boot, it takes me into LILO, which defaults to "linux", but if I type "dos" it takes me back to my old NT loader menu, and let's me choose NT. This is all okay by me (though if I were even more paranoid than I am, I might complain about RedHat intentionally stealing the default as part of their nefarious strategy). > > Alt-tab no longer works in AnotherLevel/fvwm2/fvwm95 > > (whatever you want to call it). It switches focus, but > > doesn't do an autoraise. > > Windowmanager default configs change (like in Afterstep). Perhaps the > old system config got rpmsaved? I am using wmaker or fvwm2 since the > maintainers seem responsible guys taking care of backward > compatibility. Well, that's a thought. I've also heard that the latest release from Enlightenment has finally gotten around to fixing this problem (but then, E-heads always seem to be saying things like that). > > Sound isn't working (I've got a soundblaster > > AWE 32... not exactly rare). > > what is the exact problem? How did you handle sound support during > the upgrade? Did you customize the list of packages to upgrade? A > possiblity is that the soundcard conflicts with the ethernet card. I wouldn't *think* that a conflict with the ethernet card is likely. If I do a "cat /proc/ioports" and a "cat /proc/interrupts" it shows them as using separate ports and interrupts. All I know about the sound problem at the moment is that during boot up when it tries to probe the sound card I can here a pop and a hum, but then it comes back and tells me it's not working (I think it says something like "device busy"). I haven't looked into it any further than that yet (I got bigger problems). > > Apache no longer starts at boot-up. > > what is the ouput of > > find /etc/rc.d -name "*http*" > > If you do not see the approriate links, perhaps do > > chkconfig --add httpd Actually, the links are all there. It turns out that the problem was that once upon a time I renamed this machine from "localhost" to "latveria" and this ocassionally causes problems (I'm not sure why). I had to tell Apache explicitly what the machine name is with a "ServerName" directive (don't ask me why it can't just do a uname). But the old configuration file had been renamed: /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.rpmsave And I had to manually port the "ServerName" line over to the new config file. (You know, I can see why Redhat might have found this renaming strategy safe and expedient, but it really doesn't strike me as good enough.) Anyway, thanks for trying to help, but I was really just whining. I can probably fix these problems on my own (and I haven't looked into it far enough to start begging for help), it's just that the amount of time I need to spend administering this box is really getting me down. There's another problem I could add to the list, too: postgresql is down, evidentally because the data file formats are different for 6.3 and 6.5, and it's up to me to do dump it and restore it in the new format. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
