Re: smp /boot upgrade problem

2002-12-21 Thread Brad Alpert
It's fixed. I don't know what changed the /boot spec in lilo.conf, but when I changed it to the physical location of c0d0p1, it worked. I'm in SMP heaven now :) Brad > Brad Alpert said: >> This Compaq 1850R server is running RAID 5 in hardware, using a >> Compaq 221 controller. /dev/md14 appe

Re: smp /boot upgrade problem

2002-12-21 Thread nate
Brad Alpert said: > This Compaq 1850R server is running RAID 5 in hardware, using a > Compaq 221 controller. /dev/md14 appears to be the boot location. I'm not famillar with this particular server but on a couple Compaq DL380s that I have access to they do not use /dev/md* for boot, that is typic

Re: smp /boot upgrade problem

2002-12-21 Thread Brad Alpert
This Compaq 1850R server is running RAID 5 in hardware, using a Compaq 221 controller. /dev/md14 appears to be the boot location. With hardware RAID, the drives appear to the OS as logical devices as specified in the RAID setup, so that the OS doesn't even know that there is RAID out there. /dev

Re: smp /boot upgrade problem

2002-12-21 Thread nate
Brad Alpert said: > Did that right off the bat. As you say, it wasn't hard at all. But > here's the output from running the lilo command after configuring > lilo: > > [root@ns1 etc]# lilo > Fatal: Unable to get RAID info on /dev/md14 > > Any other thoughts? what kind of raid array is /dev/md14 ?

Re: smp /boot upgrade problem

2002-12-21 Thread Brad Alpert
Did that right off the bat. As you say, it wasn't hard at all. But here's the output from running the lilo command after configuring lilo: [root@ns1 etc]# lilo Fatal: Unable to get RAID info on /dev/md14 Any other thoughts? Brad > Brad Alpert said: >> >> How do I install a stock smp kernel wh

Re: smp /boot upgrade problem

2002-12-21 Thread nate
Brad Alpert said: > > How do I install a stock smp kernel when it can't find the bootloader? how about manually configuring LILO and running it to overwrite any grub bootloader since you mentioned your running LILO not grub ? shouldn't be too hard I'm not a redhat expert though, so my metho

smp /boot upgrade problem

2002-12-21 Thread Brad Alpert
I added a second cpu kit (factory) to my Compaq 1850R which has been running fine. I want to upgrade to the smp kernel and get this error when I run the smp rpm: [root@ns1 src]# rpm -Uvh kernel-smp-2.4.18-19.8.0.i686.rpm Preparing... ### [100

Kernel upgrade problem - RH7.2

2002-10-18 Thread Chandra
Hi, I'm experiencing a problem trying to upgrade an RH7.2 kernel to 2.4.18 on a Dell PowerEdge 2650. I made sure that kernel-source package exists, downloaded the 2.4.18 kernel from kernel.org. make xconfig ran without any problems. I selected the modules/configs I want, save and exit. /usr/src

Re: Kernel upgrade problem

2002-10-03 Thread Javier Gostling
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 07:00:38PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > If you had all of the kernels still installed, why not just choose one > of the old kernels at boot time? Installation uses 2.4.7-10, which works fine. But I wanted to have the box with all errata applied. This one is a production

Re: Kernel upgrade problem

2002-10-02 Thread John Thomas
Gordon: I haven't tried this yet, but thanks for a tip with pin-point precision. JT Gordon Messmer wrote: >On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 06:11, John Thomas wrote: > > >>Is this what causes a hang on booting a new kernel when "Freeing unused >>kernel memory..." appears, then init doesn't load (or ex

Re: Kernel upgrade problem

2002-10-02 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 10:50, Javier Gostling wrote: > > Thanks. I had to roll back the entire server installation, but will If you had all of the kernels still installed, why not just choose one of the old kernels at boot time? > proceed with it again tomorrow morning. I will then try your sugg

Re: Kernel upgrade problem

2002-10-02 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 06:11, John Thomas wrote: > Is this what causes a hang on booting a new kernel when "Freeing unused > kernel memory..." appears, then init doesn't load (or execute)? I have > that problem on attempting a kernal compile under RH 7.3. There are no > errors about mounting e

Re: Kernel upgrade problem

2002-10-02 Thread Javier Gostling
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 01:50:32PM -0400, Javier Gostling wrote: > Also, is this bug reported in bugzilla? Forget I asked. It has been reported tons of times. I found plenty of info on the subject on the different bugs, in case anyone needs help on this: - Use lilo instead of grub. Lilo stores

Re: Kernel upgrade problem

2002-10-02 Thread Javier Gostling
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 12:22:08AM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > It's a kernel bug. Change your grub.conf to use: > root=3003 > where 3003 is the hex value of the root device's major and minor number. > > In our case, the root device is on /dev/rd/c0d0p3, it's major and minor > numbers a

Re: Kernel upgrade problem

2002-10-02 Thread John Thomas
Is this what causes a hang on booting a new kernel when "Freeing unused kernel memory..." appears, then init doesn't load (or execute)? I have that problem on attempting a kernal compile under RH 7.3. There are no errors about mounting ext3. John Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gordon Messmer wrot

Re: Kernel upgrade problem

2002-10-02 Thread linux power
I read yesterday that a system hung due to a NIC eepro100   Javier Gostling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev: Hi all,I was installing a RH 7.2 server today, and after installing I upgradedall software packages. Finally, I upgraded the kernel packages (kernel,kernel-smp and kernel-headers). All this with

Re: Kernel upgrade problem

2002-10-02 Thread linux power
Hi. I also read yesterday that the NIC eepro100 could cause hanging on boot. --- Gordon Messmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev: > On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 17:39, Javier Gostling wrote: > ... > > which is expected. Now, when I rebooted to apply > the kernel upgrade, the > > system hung on startup with

Re: Kernel upgrade problem

2002-10-01 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 17:39, Javier Gostling wrote: ... > which is expected. Now, when I rebooted to apply the kernel upgrade, the > system hung on startup with the new kernel. After some investigation, I > found that the linuxrc script in the initrd image for 2.4.9-34smp was > getting an error wh

Kernel upgrade problem

2002-10-01 Thread Javier Gostling
Hi all, I was installing a RH 7.2 server today, and after installing I upgraded all software packages. Finally, I upgraded the kernel packages (kernel, kernel-smp and kernel-headers). All this with up2date. I ended up with four different kernel packages: - kernel-2.4.7-10 - kernel-2.4.9-34 - kern

Re: Mozilla upgrade problem: Compatibility layer for libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3?

2002-03-04 Thread John P Verel
Thanks, Gordon. I'll give it a go tomorrow evening and report back. John. On 03/03/02, 09:03:45PM -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 19:45, John P Verel wrote: > > rpm --test -Uvh on these packages gives a dependency need for > > libstdc++.so.4. This object is provided by libs

Re: Mozilla upgrade problem: Compatibility layer forlibstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3?

2002-03-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 19:45, John P Verel wrote: > rpm --test -Uvh on these packages gives a dependency need for > libstdc++.so.4. This object is provided by libstdc++-3.1-0.21.i386.rpm, > according to rpmfind. > > If I attempt an rpm --test -Uvh on: > > libstdc++-3.1-0.21.i386.rpm > libstdc+

Mozilla upgrade problem: Compatibility layer for libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3?

2002-03-03 Thread John P Verel
I'm trying to upgrade mozilla-0.9.2.1-2 to 0.9.8. I've downloaded the following from rpmfind: mozilla-0.9.8-2.i386.rpm mozilla-chat-0.9.8-2.i386.rpm mozilla-devel-0.9.8-2.i386.rpm mozilla-mail-0.9.8-2.i386.rpm mozilla-psm-0.9.8-2.i386.rpm rpm --test -Uvh on these packages gives a dependency nee

system installer upgrade problem

2002-02-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a new machine that had 7.1 installed on it. It has a raid 1 mirrored disk setup. The original installation only installed in text mode and many other options are missing. So I put the 7.1 installation disk in to Upgrade and click ok I get the following message: "An error has occurred - no v

7.2 Upgrade, problem with dump + ext2/ext3

2002-01-30 Thread Ryan Hamilton Madison
Hello, I did a fresh install of RH 7.2 recently. I decided to make the OS partitions ext3 (Note mount command below). I had some disks / partitions from the previous install that I left ext2. I want to migrate some data from the ext2 partitions to the ext3 partitions using dump / restore.

Re: RPM upgrade problem

2002-01-28 Thread Matthew Boeckman
Devon wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 25 January 2002 10:54 am, Matthew Boeckman wrote: > >>Hi list, >> I have a newly installed RH7.2 box that was installed on top of >>RH6.2. The installation did not upgrade RPM, so I am left to do that. >>The problem i

Re: RPM upgrade problem

2002-01-25 Thread Devon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 25 January 2002 10:54 am, Matthew Boeckman wrote: > Hi list, > I have a newly installed RH7.2 box that was installed on top of > RH6.2. The installation did not upgrade RPM, so I am left to do that. > The problem is that when I try to inst

RPM upgrade problem

2002-01-25 Thread Matthew Boeckman
Hi list, I have a newly installed RH7.2 box that was installed on top of RH6.2. The installation did not upgrade RPM, so I am left to do that. The problem is that when I try to install the popt stuff I get: [root@bohr src]# rpm -Uvh popt-1.6.3-1.03.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies:

Re: rpm upgrade problem

2001-03-18 Thread Brian Kuhn
Hi Erik, Whether you decide to go to 3.0.6 or 4.x, read a message that Jeff Johnson at Redhat posted to the RPM list a while back Read it a few times. http://www.execpc.com/~bgkuhn/linux/upgrade_to_rpm_4.html I helped me dig myself out of a hole after I screwed up the RPM 4 install. T

Re: rpm upgrade problem

2001-03-18 Thread Erik Mathisen
"Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote: > Convert your RPM database to db3 format Ok, I did install db3 when I upgraded, it was one of those dependency issues. Could someone enlighten me on how to convert my rpm database to db3? Thanks so much, Erik ___

Re: rpm upgrade problem

2001-03-18 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Erik Mathisen wrote: > Hi, > I just upgraded to rpm 4 and glibc 2.2 at the same time. I had to > download a few other rpms to satisfy some dependencies. After the > upgrade, according to rpm -qa, I do not have any packages installed. I > tried a rpm --rebuilddb, but

rpm upgrade problem

2001-03-18 Thread Erik Mathisen
Hi, I just upgraded to rpm 4 and glibc 2.2 at the same time. I had to download a few other rpms to satisfy some dependencies. After the upgrade, according to rpm -qa, I do not have any packages installed. I tried a rpm --rebuilddb, but it didnt fix the problem, still no packages install

upgrade problem solved - "You don't have any Linux partitions!"

2000-03-16 Thread Jim Wang
A while ago, I complained to this list that I was unable to upgrade one of my machines from 6.0 to 6.1 because I'd get the "no partitions" message immediately after I selected the "upgrade" option. I got this complaint even though I had no problem booting the existing 6.0 installation. I querie

upgrade problem

2000-01-26 Thread John Washburn
I tried sending this to the newsgroup without much luck. I have Red Hat 6.0 installed on a 13.5G IDE drive. The drive is one x0f extended partition with several logical partitions. The drive was originally partitioned with Partition Magic, The drive is the second drive in the system and all th

GLINT upgrade problem

1998-06-23 Thread CodFish88
I'm running RedHat 5.0 and had a problem with glint 2.4 (the "Available" selection problem). I installed glint 2.6 and now it won't even start. I obtained glint 2.6 from the 5.1 upgrades. Are these upgrades incompatable with 5.0? I went back to glint 2.4 and that runs but I'm back to the original

Re: PAM rpm upgrade problem.

1998-06-05 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
>Greetings! >Has anyone had any problems upgrading PAM via rpm with respect >to this >error message? >[root@HAL apps]# rpm -Uvh pam-0.64-2.i386.rpm >failed dependencies: >libcrack.so.2 is needed by pam-0.64-2 It gives you the cause. Update libcrack. Of, one good hint : Never log out wh

PAM rpm upgrade problem.

1998-06-05 Thread Steve Ki-Won Lee
Greetings! Has anyone had any problems upgrading PAM via rpm with respect to this error message? [root@HAL apps]# rpm -Uvh pam-0.64-2.i386.rpm failed dependencies: libcrack.so.2 is needed by pam-0.64-2 Also, I can't login as one of the users I've created and I think it's because of th

RPM upgrade problem--fixed

1998-04-10 Thread Marco Shaw
I was here the last couple of weeks asking for advice on how to upgrade some of my packages. I was having problems with installing/upgrading some rpms. I burned all the rpms I was having problems with onto a CD and then tried glint, and everyting worked perfect. I couldn't install from the comm