RE: Xorg corrupt after a failed install from Rawhide (How to recover)
by Ernest L. Williams Jr.
-----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
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19 years, 8 months
CUPs on reboot problem
by Paul F. Johnson
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
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19 years, 8 months
Autoraid fails on FC3-test1
by Bill Maidment
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
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19 years, 8 months
my rpm database exploded...but there's a bright side
by Paul Iadonisi
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?
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19 years, 8 months
RE: Xorg corrupt after a failed install from Rawhide (How to recover)
by Ernest L. Williams Jr.
-----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
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19 years, 8 months
RE: Xorg corrupt after a failed install from Rawhide (How to recover)
by Ernest L. Williams Jr.
-----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
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Lost ability to connect to Internet on test installation.
by Jim Cornette
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
19 years, 8 months
Xorg corrupt after a failed install from Rawhide (How to recover)
by Ernest L. Williams Jr.
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
19 years, 8 months
lirc
by Robert La Ferla
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.
19 years, 8 months
Fedora Core 2 Test Update: wget-1.9.1-7
by Karsten Hopp
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
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Fedora Test Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-281
2004-08-28
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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.
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Update Information:
This update provides support for large files >2Gb
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* 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
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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
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19 years, 8 months