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RE: Xorg corrupt after a failed install from Rawhide (How to recover)
by Ernest L. Williams Jr. 29 Aug '04

29 Aug '04

-----Original Message----- From: fedora-test-list-bounces(a)redhat.com on behalf of Jim Cornette Sent: Sat 8/28/2004 11:30 PM To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases Subject: Re: Xorg corrupt after a failed install from Rawhide (How to recover) > Out of curiousity, were there any > rpm files still in the /var/spool/up2date directory? > > =========================================== > Yes, but I cleared that area as well. I guess this is moot now. > > Which rpm was not recognized as such? > > ============================================== > Not sure what you mean here? When an rpm file does not download correctly and you try to install the file, rpm will usually print out a message that such and such is not an rpm or similar. The output from attempting rpm -Fvh *.rpm would most likely reveal the damaged or incomplete downloaded rpm file. This is an example with a real rpm and a wannabe rpm. Example rpm shows this sort of message. [root@cornette-fc3 rpm-test]# rpm -Fvh *.rpm example.rpm: not an rpm package (or package manifest): [root@cornette-fc3 rpm-test]# ls example.rpm HelixPlayer-0.4.0.187-20040615.i586.rpm Oh well, not an issue now. The directory was cleaned out. ============== Okay, now I understand. Actually, when using yum to install xorg-x11 I had a corrupt download on one of the headers. However, yum reported this on the commandline. I then ran yum again and it automatically removed the bad header and downloaded again. So, looks like yum is smart of enough to detect a bad download and recover. Jim > -- I thought my people would grow tired of killing. But you were right, they see it is easier than trading. And it has its pleasures. I feel it myself. Like the hunt, but with richer rewards. -- Apella, "A Private Little War", stardate 4211.8 -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list

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CUPs on reboot problem
by Paul F. Johnson 29 Aug '04

29 Aug '04

Hi, I've done a reboot to the current version of the kernel. Everything is going fine until the restart tries to start CUPS. It has been stuck there now for over 5 minutes with nothing more than a lot of hard drive thrashing. Is this a cups problem, kernel problem or my machine? TTFN Paul -- Get your free @ukpost.com account now http://www.ukpost.com/

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Autoraid fails on FC3-test1
by Bill Maidment 29 Aug '04

29 Aug '04

Hi I upgraded FC3-test1 with a pile (several hundred) of upgrades and now Autoraid fails to set up the SATA drives. Unfortunately, I can't tell you what version of what I upgraded, as they are now inaccessible. Can anyone tell me how to recover the system, without reloading everything? Thanks -- _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ Bill Maidment Maidment Enterprises Pty Ltd

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my rpm database exploded...but there's a bright side
by Paul Iadonisi 28 Aug '04

28 Aug '04

Well, that was fun. NOT! I don't know what happened, but on my FC2 desktop I was suddenly getting prompted by up2date about the GPG key used to sign the latest update to gaim wasn't installed in the rpm database. No matter what I did, for some odd reason it wouldn't import it. I thought it was already there, anyhow. Hmm, then I discovered that I couldn't import *any* GPG keys. So, I figured my rpm db was b0rked and did a 'rpm --rebuilddb'. It returned with errors fairly quickly. Ick. So I made copies of all my db files in /var/lib/rpm and sicced db_dump and db_load on each one of them. Move them in place, do a 'rpm -qa' and...only approx. 200 packages. *sob* I know I had over 1600 installed since this was an 'everything' install. So, rather than reinstall the entire system, I decided to use '--root /tmppath --justdb' to install all of the rpms in an updated FC2 tree and then fixed it up from there. *THANK* you for /var/log/rpmpkg...it saved my butt. But it dawned on me as I got closer and closer to getting everything in the rpm database at it's proper version that I now had (among other things) a rather comprehensive list of directories that probably should be part of packages, but are not (like /usr/include/mozilla-1.7.2/*/). Probably the majority of these could be considered bugs. I guess what I'm saying is that I'm in a position to file a bunch of packaging bugs (but I will check to see if they still exist in FC3T1 updated). I'm not making any promises, as there's still a lot of manual work to do, but what I'm asking is if I start submitting boatloads of packaging bugs, is that going to be considered a good thing? I presume they won't be considered high priority, but that's okay. I just don't want to see all of them closed as WONTFIX. So, should I start bugzilla-ing? -- -Paul Iadonisi Senior System Administrator Red Hat Certified Engineer / Local Linux Lobbyist Ever see a penguin fly? -- Try Linux. GPL all the way: Sell services, don't lease secrets

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RE: Xorg corrupt after a failed install from Rawhide (How to recover)
by Ernest L. Williams Jr. 28 Aug '04

28 Aug '04

-----Original Message----- From: fedora-test-list-bounces(a)redhat.com on behalf of Jim Cornette Sent: Sat 8/28/2004 9:26 PM To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases Subject: Re: Xorg corrupt after a failed install from Rawhide (How to recover) > I hope you get the basic concept from this attempted explanation. I'm > getting lost myself. It is easier done than said. > > ============================= > I am back in business. Thanks for the guidance here. > > Here is what I did to recover: > > Step 1: Go to init level 3 > > Step 2: remove xorg-x11 from my system > > Step 3: remove old header info for yum > rm -rf /var/cache/yum/development/header.info > cd /var/cache/yum/development/headers > rm -rf *.hdr > > Step 4: Use yum to install xorg-xll > yum install xorg-x11 > > > > Success. It is great that this worked for you. Out of curiousity, were there any rpm files still in the /var/spool/up2date directory? =========================================== Yes, but I cleared that area as well. Which rpm was not recognized as such? ============================================== Not sure what you mean here? It's great that you got X back up and running again. Jim -- "The sixties were good to you, weren't they?" -- George Carlin -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list

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RE: Xorg corrupt after a failed install from Rawhide (How to recover)
by Ernest L. Williams Jr. 28 Aug '04

28 Aug '04

-----Original Message----- From: fedora-test-list-bounces(a)redhat.com on behalf of Jim Cornette Sent: Sat 8/28/2004 10:40 AM To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases Subject: Re: Xorg corrupt after a failed install from Rawhide (How to recover) Williams Jr, Ernest L. wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to install "xorg-x11" via up2date from rawhide a few days ago on my FC3T1 desktop. > The retrieval wnet okay. As a matter of fact, I tried to update a lot of things including the kernel and many other packages. Maybe, I tried to do too much at once. > > Anyway during the installation phase xorg-X11 installation failed; therefore up2date aborted before completing everything. > > How does one recover? > > I removed the xorg-xll packages. > > Now I try: > ================================================= > [root@matrix root]# yum install 'xorg-x11*' > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) > Server: Fedora Core 2 - Development Tree > =================================================== > > However, yum appears to be hung since nothing is happening > > > Thanks, > Ernesto > > To view the log without a GUI, you might run cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log |less and scroll through the file to see why X departed on you. I had a problem where X was halted in mid-update before with a previous test release. I retrieved the latest X versioned rpms from the repo (using mc, of course) and installed it with rpm locally. I believe it was rpm -Uvh *.rpm using the downloaded X files (before xorg-x11 and xfree split). I cannot recall if I needed --nodeps or not. If you uninstalled w/ nodeps you might need to. In my case, there was a perticular font package used by X that did not take when upgrading X. This caused an abrupt halting of the install and the adding and removing of programs never finished. There were two different versions of the font package in the directory on the mirror repository used. Now after all the runaround views. It might be easier to run rpm -qa |grep xorg to see what versions of X you have and to determine if you have two different versions of the same package installed. If you have version-4, version-8 and other possible combinations. This could be messy. If they are all the same versions, then you are alright. *or* You can log in as root. Then cd to the /var/spool/up2date directory. From there, type ls *.rpm and see which rpms downloaded before the crash. The rpm downloaded with the latest date is probably the reason for the crash and probably is corrupted (not completely downloaded) Anyway, try running the below command in the /var/spool/up2date directory. rpm -Fvh *.rpm This should give you an error message related to the damaged rpm downloaded. rm -rf whatever-damaged.rpm and confirm delete. Try above rpm command above and most likely, it will complete. If you did delete your X packages. It might be needed to run. rpm -Uvh *.rpm within the directory instead of freshen. I hope you get the basic concept from this attempted explanation. I'm getting lost myself. It is easier done than said. ============================= I am back in business. Thanks for the guidance here. Here is what I did to recover: Step 1: Go to init level 3 Step 2: remove xorg-x11 from my system Step 3: remove old header info for yum rm -rf /var/cache/yum/development/header.info cd /var/cache/yum/development/headers rm -rf *.hdr Step 4: Use yum to install xorg-xll yum install xorg-x11 Success. Jim -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list

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Lost ability to connect to Internet on test installation.
by Jim Cornette 28 Aug '04

28 Aug '04

I upgraded my system two days ago and somehow cannot resolve connection to get a connection to the Internet with this Installation now. I can communicate with the router and have no problems with this feature. I cannot get out to the rest of the world now after the upgraded packages were added. On the other two installations (development, a bit behind on upgrades and on the FC2 installation, things work fine still. The setup for all installations is the same and my FC3T1 test installation worked connecting until yesterday, after turning on machine. I tried to restart the network, remove and add again the NICs and connect directly to the Internet without the router. I was able to get an IP address via DHCP when trying either through the router or directly through the 2wire modem via the ethernet port. Looking through the available updates, I see none that might have changed something related to Internet Connections. Any clues to what might have caused the lost connections is appreciated. Wild guesses welcome. Jim

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Xorg corrupt after a failed install from Rawhide (How to recover)
by Ernest L. Williams Jr. 28 Aug '04

28 Aug '04

Hi, I tried to install "xorg-x11" via up2date from rawhide a few days ago on my FC3T1 desktop. The retrieval wnet okay. As a matter of fact, I tried to update a lot of things including the kernel and many other packages. Maybe, I tried to do too much at once. Anyway during the installation phase xorg-X11 installation failed; therefore up2date aborted before completing everything. How does one recover? I removed the xorg-xll packages. Now I try: ================================================= [root@matrix root]# yum install 'xorg-x11*' Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Fedora Core 2 - Development Tree =================================================== However, yum appears to be hung since nothing is happening Thanks, Ernesto

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lirc
by Robert La Ferla 28 Aug '04

28 Aug '04

Has anyone been able to successfully install lirc (infrared remote control) on the latest FC2? BTW - Given that many users are using Linux for video and home theater applications, I think we need to add "lirc" to the Fedora distribution. Lirc requires kernel source and, as such, is better distributed with Fedora. It is too much work to install separately.

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Fedora Core 2 Test Update: wget-1.9.1-7
by Karsten Hopp 28 Aug '04

28 Aug '04

This new release of wget adds support for large files >2Gb Please test if the following works (make sure that your web/ftp server supports large files): - downloads of files smaller / larger than 2Gb via http and ftp - continue aborted downloads smaller / larger 2Gb via http and ftp Add your feedback to http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123524 If I hear of no larger problems until Fri Sep 03, this package will be pushed as an update of Fedora Core 2. Thanks Karsten --------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Test Update Notification FEDORA-2004-281 2004-08-28 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 2 Name : wget Version : 1.9.1 Release : 7 Summary : A utility for retrieving files using the HTTP or FTP protocols Description : GNU Wget is a file retrieval utility which can use either the HTTP or FTP protocols. Wget features include the ability to work in the background while you are logged out, recursive retrieval of directories, file name wildcard matching, remote file timestamp storage and comparison, use of Rest with FTP servers and Range with HTTP servers to retrieve files over slow or unstable connections, support for Proxy servers, and configurability. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update provides support for large files >2Gb --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Fri Aug 27 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de> 1.9.1-7 - clean up manpage (#117519) - buildrequire texinfo (#123780) - LFS patch, based on wget-LFS-20040630.patch from Leonid Petrov (#123524, #124628, #115348) * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/2/ 3bf92f2e48be088bf40be7ee884df4fc SRPMS/wget-1.9.1-7.src.rpm 255d935ecf2cdc57d22b7acf46d8e9c9 x86_64/wget-1.9.1-7.x86_64.rpm f454efbf359eb0a7d1b63c93951c300a x86_64/debug/wget-debuginfo-1.9.1-7.x86_64.rpm b8d61b4023f8d25087d19f3b3746195f i386/wget-1.9.1-7.i386.rpm 9399ccccf57b4352b2a317e38e1df117 i386/debug/wget-debuginfo-1.9.1-7.i386.rpm This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command. You may need to edit your up2date channels configuration. Within /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources enable the following line: yum updates-testing http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/testing/fedora-core-2 --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de> GPG 1024D/70ABD02C Fingerprint D2D4 3B6B 2DE4 464C A432 210A DFF8 A140 70AB D02C Red Hat Deutschland, Hauptstaetter Str.58 70178 Stuttgart, Tel.+49-711-96437-0, Fax +49-711-96437-111

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