Hello!
I am planning on upgrading my 5.2 system to 6.1 tomorrow (and when I'm
finished it *will* be Thanksgiving!). However, in poking around the CD-ROM, I
found that almost 150 packages, when queried or installed, would result in:
read failed: Input/output error (5)
to stderr and
Nov 24 10:00:27 tutus kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
Nov 24 10:00:27 tutus kernel: 0b:00: rw=0, want=632770, limit=569906
to /var/log/messages (I have a SCSI CD-ROM drive that's never given any other
problems).
Because XFree86 is in that failing group, I'm concerned that an upgrade won't
go all that smoothly.
The upgrade on my other system went just fine (a different hardware setup, but
still RHL 5.2).
When I mount this CD-ROM on my system (the one with the errors),
/var/log/messages reports:
Nov 24 10:06:40 tutus automount[277]: attempting to mount entry /mnt/cdrom
Nov 24 10:06:45 tutus kernel: ISO9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
Upon checking my configuration for the 5.2 kernel, there is no option for
putting the Joliet extensions into the kernel. Could that be the source of
the errors?
Thanks!
-Michael
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