Hi,
Today I finally gathered up the courage to "live on the edge" and upgrade to rawhide. So I disabled all the other repositories and enabled rawhide. (Fedora and rpmfusion, living rpmfusion enabled was probably a bad idea) Then I ran
$ yum update --skip-broken (as I was having trouble with vlc)
While installing I noticed yum encountered some errors. Most of then said,
"bash: xmalloc: cannot allocate <some numbers> bytes allocated 0 byte"
After yum was done it said it failed to update several packages. When I tried to reboot my desktop froze after logging me out halfway. I had to do a hardboot but that got stuck too after some error messages from init. Then I tried booting to runlevel 3 with no luck. Finally I could boot using the DVD choosing to rescue. But after the disk gets mounted at /mnt/sysimage when I do chroot /mnt/sysimage, I get the same error as yum was showing while installing,
"bash: xmalloc: cannot allocate <some numbers> bytes allocated 0 byte"
I have a separate /home so my data is most likely safe, but how do I make this bootable again? What did I do wrong that things went so bad? I would still like to upgrade to rawhide, any help with this will be a lifesaver.
Thanks in advance.
-- Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+rawhide@gmail.com wrote:
Today I finally gathered up the courage to "live on the edge" and upgrade to rawhide. So I disabled all the other repositories and enabled rawhide. (Fedora and rpmfusion, living rpmfusion enabled was probably a bad idea) Then I ran
;-)
Here I also got an unbootable system, it looks like by cron automatically running prelink(8). The steps here were:
- Got boot.iso from a rawhide mirror (not all carry them!), dated 2009-07-07 (latest I could find) - Rescue mode complained there aren't any Linux partitions. Panic time! But they are there, lvscan shows everything inactive (?)...
# lvm lvm> lvchange -a y /dev/VolGroup/LogVol00 .... # mount <lots of /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol?? under /mnt/sysimage> # chroot /mnt/sysimage prelink -u -a
After the above, I could run yum:
# chroot /mnt/sysimage yum -y update --skip-broken
Several complaints about not being able to run %pre/%post later, I rebooted normally, everything works (slowly, but better than not at all ;-)
Ran as root:
# package-cleanup --clean-dupes
And then did a:
# yum -y reinstall <list of packages with dupes from above>
just to be on the safe side WRT packages that didn't uninstall/install cleanly. I'm pretty sure the above didn't catch them all, but...
2009/7/13 Horst H. von Brand vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl:
suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+rawhide@gmail.com wrote:
Today I finally gathered up the courage to "live on the edge" and upgrade to rawhide. So I disabled all the other repositories and enabled rawhide. (Fedora and rpmfusion, living rpmfusion enabled was probably a bad idea) Then I ran
;-)
Here I also got an unbootable system, it looks like by cron automatically running prelink(8). The steps here were:
- Got boot.iso from a rawhide mirror (not all carry them!), dated 2009-07-07 (latest I could find) - Rescue mode complained there aren't any Linux partitions. Panic time! But they are there, lvscan shows everything inactive (?)...
# lvm lvm> lvchange -a y /dev/VolGroup/LogVol00 .... # mount <lots of /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol?? under /mnt/sysimage> # chroot /mnt/sysimage prelink -u -a
After the above, I could run yum:
# chroot /mnt/sysimage yum -y update --skip-broken
Several complaints about not being able to run %pre/%post later, I rebooted normally, everything works (slowly, but better than not at all ;-)
Ran as root:
# package-cleanup --clean-dupes
And then did a:
# yum -y reinstall <list of packages with dupes from above>
just to be on the safe side WRT packages that didn't uninstall/install cleanly. I'm pretty sure the above didn't catch them all, but...
Thanks for your reply, but I couldn't get my box to boot so finally reinstalled F11 on it. :(
I know this is long after your original post -- but it is problems like what you and others experience that persuades me to always install any alpha or beta code to a totally different hard drive than the one my "working" Fedora system is on. I just tried installing Fedora 12 Alpha and I did get a nice runlevel 3 system...which of course is broken with respect to X. Luckily I had taken the trouble to pop a spare hard drive in my laptop, and put my Fedora 11 hard drive on a shelf for several hours. I didn't lose anything and got some experience with the alpha code.
Bob
On 07/13/2009 08:40 PM, suvayu ali wrote:
2009/7/13 Horst H. von Brandvonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl:
suvayu alifatkasuvayu+rawhide@gmail.com wrote:
Today I finally gathered up the courage to "live on the edge" and upgrade to rawhide. So I disabled all the other repositories and enabled rawhide. (Fedora and rpmfusion, living rpmfusion enabled was probably a bad idea) Then I ran
;-)
Here I also got an unbootable system, it looks like by cron automatically running prelink(8). The steps here were:
- Got boot.iso from a rawhide mirror (not all carry them!), dated 2009-07-07 (latest I could find)
- Rescue mode complained there aren't any Linux partitions. Panic time! But they are there, lvscan shows everything inactive (?)...
# lvm lvm> lvchange -a y /dev/VolGroup/LogVol00 .... # mount<lots of /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol?? under /mnt/sysimage> # chroot /mnt/sysimage prelink -u -a
After the above, I could run yum:
# chroot /mnt/sysimage yum -y update --skip-broken
Several complaints about not being able to run %pre/%post later, I rebooted normally, everything works (slowly, but better than not at all ;-)
Ran as root:
# package-cleanup --clean-dupes
And then did a:
# yum -y reinstall<list of packages with dupes from above>
just to be on the safe side WRT packages that didn't uninstall/install cleanly. I'm pretty sure the above didn't catch them all, but...
Thanks for your reply, but I couldn't get my box to boot so finally reinstalled F11 on it. :(
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Horst H. von Brand -
Robert L Cochran -
suvayu ali