CentOS 5 :: RPM Tail Chasing Clobbered Yum Upgrade
Mar 28, 2011
I have had update problems for a very long time in my desktop e-machine. Maybe since 5.3. Usually something about Gwenview and other things. And, while --skip-broken got other packages updated, sorry, an incomplete update just isn't acceptable. Because of this I stopped using Centos for a long time. Yesterday, I got ambition and gave it another try. I had a lot of yum upgrade failures when upgrading 5.4 to 5.5, using --skip-broken.
I decided to fix things or delete Centos completely. But, I like the idea of free R****t. I realize this may have been posted, but I had no luck finding it via Google, So I started Googling. I soon found the --disablerepo option, and playing with repos, got most of the failures to upgrade. But, still hung up on a lot of stuff, like 11 packages or more.
Next, I learned about yum-prioroties and setting repo prorities. Yum-priorities was already installed, but I did go in and set the priorities. Since Google has a lot of information on this, I will not repeat here. You go into the repo config files and add a priority number to each repo listing. Here is a script to display repo priorities that I found online, sorry, I lost the author:
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Sep 22, 2010
I was having problems with using sound in 9.04, and decided that I needed to upgrade to 10.04
So, did a bit of cleaning up, before doing a backup to another disk. In the process of cleaning up, I removed, what I thought was "just" sqlite, but it removed firefox, kmail, nautilus, networking, internet, just about all menus, the whole system is shot.
Fortunately, I use simple backup, and was able to 'see' that a full backup was done yesterday, and an incremental just before my 'clean up'. The sbackup only does /home , and system data held in /etc,/usr/local and /var , so not ALL of the system is in the tar files.
Now when I boot into Ubuntu, it just goes to a command prompt. To copy those .tar files to another drive on the same computer, I need to run nautilus or similar, but can't, as no internet. The same with sbackup, basically it won't run anything. I did try the 'recovery option in GRUB, still no go.
I do have Beyond compare on the Ubuntu box, and I _think_ it may be ok to run, and possibly copy those .tar files across. As it won't even do a 'mount' either, I can't copy to CD, or load a USB stick, etc, etc.
I'm 99% certain that the .TAR files will be all that I need. They have all the data, and all the config. type files.
Just wondering if there is any method to get Ubuntu 9.04 up and going again, like a restore point I guess. But, every time I tried using apt-get, it wanted the internet, which is not working on Ubuntu (fortunately I have XP on this same computer, and can connect).
The XP computer can't access the Ubuntu HDD, but Ubuntu can access the XP HDD, and copy to it, but ONLY if I can mount the XP drive first.
So, I guess even if I could do a mount of that XP HDD from Ubuntu, that will be a start.
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Playing WAVE 'alert.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 22050 Hz, Mono
Playing WAVE 'alert.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 22050 Hz, Mono
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The weird thing is, running echo "hello" >> /home/name/text seems to work fine (tail sees the change). I read somewhere this has something to do with file descriptors and new inodes being created when saving a file.
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Sep 29, 2010
I need to printout auth.log each line by log event, I think it should be running using the following command:
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May 29, 2010
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tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
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#!/bin/bash
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PHP Code:
signal Gone into alarm state
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I'm stuck with grep-ping only one word
PHP Code:
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Jul 10, 2009
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ata1: failed to read log page 10h (errno=-5)
ata1.00 exception Emask 0x1 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000008
ata1.00: cmd 60/08:00:61:4b:38/00:00:3a:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 4096 in
ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
ata1.00: revalidation failed (errno=-2)
ata1.00: revalidation failed (errno=-2)
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Jan 26, 2011
have all ways been hiding in the background read not say a thinglets start well i look after 2 dell poweredge 2650 with 12 gig ram installed servers has been running fine onwell i though it was time to upgrade to 5 all went fine till reboot Memory for crash kernel (0x to 0x) not within permissible range ! well what i have been reading this is the norm for now What is mean by ignore it? LoLwell so i did the system keeps boot till i get to this linesbin/mingetty: /sbin/mingetty: cannot execute binary file alot, and it shows. INIT: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes ...so maybe its a memory issue so took 8 gig out left 4 in the system now it reboot alls good with only 4 gig of ram installed so is there a way to fix it to use all the ram can i get the system boot on 4 gig and then add the 8gig later on
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I don't think its trouble of new CentOS. I think this is random incident.Configuration of computer is Intel D510MO motherboard with integrated atom processor and realtek 8111dl nic. I know some trics about fix mac address in centos, but how to fix this address in bios?
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Apr 14, 2009
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However, for this particular host, I don't want to do that. I do want to upgrade any essential packages (i.e., security), of course, because I don't have a choice there, really. I can certainly look at the security emails from the project, and just upgrade those. Is there an easier way to do this?
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I have a server currently running 5.2. The developers have asked me (the SysAdmin) to upgrade the server to 5.3 -- but not all the way to 5.4, as they haven't tested the app on 5.4 yet.I believe a simple `yum upgrade` will move me all the way to 5.4 -- at least, `yum check-update` shows a whole bunch of 5.4 packages.
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We are in need to upgrade PHP 5.3.3 to 5.3.4 in order to secure PCI compliance. We have been able to upgrade the CLI version without problem , but the apache module is stuck at 5.3.3. Can anyone provide some detailed steps on how to upgrade, or should I just attempt to compile from source?
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