Re: Fedora 19 yum update fails "invalid data stream" -- now completely
stuck
by bc98kinney
Sorry for the top post, but the mailer on this cell phone blows.
Thanks for reaching out Ed, but I'm afraid this machine is doomed. It won't even run puppy Linux reliably from a flash drive. I don't trust it with my data, which I hope stays intact.
Sent from my Galaxy SIII
-------- Original message --------
From: Ed Greshko <ed.greshko(a)greshko.com>
Date:02/20/2014 23:06 (GMT-06:00)
To: Community support for Fedora users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Subject: Re: Fedora 19 yum update fails "invalid data stream" -- now completely
stuck
On 02/21/14 11:48, Bob Kinney wrote:
>
> No one wants to take a swing at this one?
Try....
cd /var/cache/yum/i386/19/
mv fedora fedora-orig
yum check-update
FYI, I've no problems to update an F19 system.....
>
> I'm totally in limbo--I cannot fix Tbird because yum is hosed. I can't reinstall F19 because
> my media is or became hosed, and the iso is hosed. I'm pretty consistent about checking downloads and media before burning and installing, and I'm pretty sure these things were done when I
> installed F19. I tried to download F19 again, but there were so few peers it would take forever,
> so I tried to download F20 with Azureus and Transmission, and sure enough the isos are hosed. I
> tried a direct download, and you guessed it, that is hosed.
>
>
> I took my own advice and ran fsck, the drive test on my main drive, and memtest86+, and found
> nothing wrong. Despite the ups and downs with Fedora along the way, in the ten years I've been
> running it exclusively, I have never become so stuck like this. My hardware is mainstream HP
> based and has been reliable as a brick.
>
>
> I would suspect malware, but I cannot find any posts of similar symptoms. I strongly suspect
> drive or filesystem problems and I'll try saving the next F20 download to a different drive.
>
> If anyone has any other suggestions, please let me know.
>
> --bobcat
>
>
> Original message:
>
>
> I am having problems with Firefox and Thunderbird (Tbird crashed hard the other day), and I thought I'd run yum update (auto-notification is pretty flaky in Mate) before reinstalling both of them. It seems that yum is broken also. I keep getting the following message:
>
>
>
> [root@otis yumsql]# yum update
> Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
> Error: Error reading from file /var/cache/yum/i386/19/fedora/7d2ba134eec4ce0666a37d68c1e600decc6ba64da7de9b89205d412bfea29e2e-primary.sqlite.bz2: invalid data stream
> [root@otis yumsql]#
>
> I have tried "yum clean all" several times.
>
> Not
> wanting to kung-fu the problem on my own, and thinking perhaps something is hopelessly sick in my installation, I attempted to reinstall F19.
>
> Anaconda dies at the
> configuration screen, showing a similar "invalid data stream" error.
>
> I am guessing that somehow these bz2 files are corrupted in the mirrors, but I have not seen any other users complaining about this. I would imagine that if there was a systemic problem it would have been fixed by now.
>
> Using "bzip2 -tvv" on the file named above gives strange results. It reports CRC errors most of the time, but in different places in the file, and sometimes reports "ok." This makes me suspect filesystem or drive problems, but then why do I have the problem in anaconda? I've ruled out FS problems already.
>
> The system has been stable until the Tbird meltdown, and seems to run fine (although Solitaire [sol] crashed for the first time last night), but I'm perplexed by the seemingly unrelated failures that ultimately are preventing me from installing from scratch.
>
> My next sanity checks are my internet connection and
> my hard disk drive. I'm wide open to suggestions.
>
> Regards,
>
> --cat
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10 years, 2 months
Fedora 19 yum update fails "invalid data stream"
by bc98kinney
I am having problems with Firefox and Thunderbird (Tbird crashed hard the other day), and I thought I'd run yum update (auto-notification is pretty flaky in Mate) before reinstalling both of them. It seems that yum is broken also. I keep getting the following message:
[root@otis yumsql]# yum update
Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
Error: Error reading from file /var/cache/yum/i386/19/fedora/7d2ba134eec4ce0666a37d68c1e600decc6ba64da7de9b89205d412bfea29e2e-primary.sqlite.bz2: invalid data stream
[root@otis yumsql]#
I have tried "yum clean all" several times.
Not
wanting to kung-fu the problem on my own, and thinking perhaps something is hopelessly sick in my installation, I attempted to reinstall F19.
Anaconda dies at the
configuration screen, showing a similar "invalid data stream" error.
I am guessing that somehow these bz2 files are corrupted in the mirrors, but I have not seen any other users complaining about this. I would imagine that if there was a systemic problem it would have been fixed by now.
Using "bzip2 -tvv" on the file named above gives strange results. It reports CRC errors most of the time, but in different places in the file, and sometimes reports "ok." This makes me suspect filesystem or drive problems, but then why do I have the problem in anaconda? I've ruled out FS problems already.
The system has been stable until the Tbird meltdown, and seems to run fine (although Solitaire [sol] crashed for the first time last night), but I'm perplexed by the seemingly unrelated failures that ultimately are preventing me from installing from scratch.
My next sanity checks are my internet connection and
my hard disk drive. I'm wide open to suggestions.
Regards,
--cat
10 years, 2 months
running a software I have
by William Biggs
I have a few software install . When I try to run the software by click
the software it run it it open's gedit .but if I open terminal go to the
folder then type ./the file name it runs t fine . Can I get to just run
by clicking the file
10 years, 2 months
RE: Fedora 19 yum update fails "invalid data stream" -- now completely
stuck
by bc98kinney
Another clue: I copied a binary file from the system drive to another, and on each drive to a local subfolder. cmp is reporting differences in all of them. What the hell is going on? Is this thing crazy or possessed?
No one wants to take a swing at this one?
I'm totally in limbo--I cannot fix Tbird because yum is hosed. I can't reinstall F19 because
my media is or became hosed, and the iso is hosed. I'm pretty consistent about checking downloads and media before burning and installing, and I'm pretty sure these things were done when I
installed F19. I tried to download F19 again, but there were so few peers it would take forever,
so I tried to download F20 with Azureus and Transmission, and sure enough the isos are hosed. I
tried a direct download, and you guessed it, that is hosed.
I took my own advice and ran fsck, the drive test on my main drive, and memtest86+, and found
nothing wrong. Despite the ups and downs with Fedora along the way, in the ten years I've been
running it exclusively, I have never become so stuck like this. My hardware is mainstream HP
based and has been reliable as a brick.
I would suspect malware, but I cannot find any posts of similar symptoms. I strongly suspect
drive or filesystem problems and I'll try saving the next F20 download to a different drive.
If anyone has any other suggestions, please let me know.
--bobcat
Original message:
I am having problems with Firefox and Thunderbird (Tbird crashed hard the other day), and I thought I'd run yum update (auto-notification is pretty flaky in Mate) before reinstalling both of them. It seems that yum is broken also. I keep getting the following message:
[root@otis yumsql]# yum update
Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
Error: Error reading from file /var/cache/yum/i386/19/fedora/7d2ba134eec4ce0666a37d68c1e600decc6ba64da7de9b89205d412bfea29e2e-primary.sqlite.bz2: invalid data stream
[root@otis yumsql]#
I have tried "yum clean all" several times.
Not
wanting to kung-fu the problem on my own, and thinking perhaps something is hopelessly sick in my installation, I attempted to reinstall F19.
Anaconda dies at the
configuration screen, showing a similar "invalid data stream" error.
I am guessing that somehow these bz2 files are corrupted in the mirrors, but I have not seen any other users complaining about this. I would imagine that if there was a systemic problem it would have been fixed by now.
Using "bzip2 -tvv" on the file named above gives strange results. It reports CRC errors most of the time, but in different places in the file, and sometimes reports "ok." This makes me suspect filesystem or drive problems, but then why do I have the problem in anaconda? I've ruled out FS problems already.
The system has been stable until the Tbird meltdown, and seems to run fine (although Solitaire [sol] crashed for the first time last night), but I'm perplexed by the seemingly unrelated failures that ultimately are preventing me from installing from scratch.
My next sanity checks are my internet connection and
my hard disk drive. I'm wide open to suggestions.
Regards,
--cat
10 years, 2 months
Very Off Topic
by Roger
A friend has windows 7 professional sp1 on a Dell Vostro, 230 32 bit
driving word 2007. No viruses reported, no infections, all antivirusware
to update.
Until a few days ago printed perfectly to a HL 4040CN Brother laser.
We have tried everything I know. Ive searched microsoft, Brother Googled
for errors. He has checked cables discussed with Brother who acted like
idiots, couldn't solve the problem.
Windows forums seem very unhelpful so I have to defer to the Linux
knowledge base.
Has anyone in Linuxland who is also using w7pro experienced printing
issues, particularly with Brother laser and worked out what caused the
failure.
Thanks, and apologies in advance for a non Linux issue.
Roger
10 years, 2 months
Grub -
by Bob Goodwin
I would like to boot Fedora-20 from the Centos 6 grub. So far my efforts
have not been successful.
I've tried various thing I found via Google to no avail ...
For instance the following does not work:
[root@box10 bobg]# cat /etc/grub.conf
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
# root (hd0,2)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sdb3
# initrd /boot/initrd-[generic-]version.img
#boot=/dev/sdb
default=0
timeout=15
splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title CentOS (2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 ro
root=UUID=9f464c84-21b9-4af8-b0b7-b6b9128815bd rd_NO_LUKS
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_NO_MD SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16
rd_LVM_LV=fedora_box10/swap KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rd_NO_DM
initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64.img
title Fedora-20
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/grub/core.img
boot
Centos6.5 is on /dev/sdb3 and Fedora20 on /dev/sdb2.
Thanks,
Bob
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10 years, 2 months
packages requiring "httpd" as opposed to requiring "webserver"?
by Robert P. J. Day
currently playing with various features of rpm/yum/repoquery, and a
general philosophy question. i can see that, when i query some
packages, they officially "provide" (among other things) a generic
service name. for instance, on my f20 system, i can see that the httpd
package provides the facility of a "webserver":
$ rpm -q --provides httpd
webserver
mod_dav = 2.4.6-6.fc20
httpd-suexec = 2.4.6-6.fc20
httpd-mmn = 20120211
httpd-mmn = 20120211-x86-64
httpd = 2.4.6-6.fc20
httpd(x86-64) = 2.4.6-6.fc20
$
i can use "repoquery" to check on uninstalled packages to get the
same information, say for the "nginx" web server:
$ repoquery -q --provides nginx
config(nginx) = 1:1.4.4-1.fc20
nginx = 1:1.4.4-1.fc20
nginx(x86-64) = 1:1.4.4-1.fc20
perl(nginx) = 1.4.4
webserver <-- there it is again
$
so both of those packages provide being a webserver so, ostensibly,
another package can simply say it has a dependency of a webserver
without having to be specific, correct?
but if i check, say, the "cacti" package, i can see that it
*specifically* wants httpd:
$ rpm -qR cacti
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
/sbin/service
/usr/bin/perl
/usr/bin/php
/usr/sbin/useradd
config(cacti) = 0.8.8b-3.fc20
httpd
... snip ...
is that considered good package design? it may be that there are
some packages that absolutely need some webserver feature that is
provided only by httpd, but is it also possible that some packages are
being unnecessarily restrictive? just trying to understand the
packaging philosophy here.
rday
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10 years, 2 months
Convert windows 7 to vm using virt
by ben＠acustat.org
Hello,
I have a desktop with Windows 7 installed (using whole HD) that I wan to convert to a vm. Can virt-p2v do this?
Looking to do this operation by:
1) Install F20 on second hard drive (2 TB)
2) Windows 7 HD (250 GB) -> F20 has a vm 250 GB VM
Or would I have to reinstall Win7 in a VM and transfer everything over?
Thanks
Ben
10 years, 2 months
Good Fedora-compatible multi-monitor video card recommendation
by Digimer
Hi all,
What would be a good (as in, relatively painless) video card for driving
as many 1080p monitors as possible? I'm not concerned about 3D
performance at all... It will be to display terminals/rarely-changing
web pages only.
I know Matrox sort of specializes in multi-monitor setups, but I can't
say I've heard them recommended much.
Fedora 20, fwiw.
Thanks!
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access to education?
10 years, 2 months
RE: HELP! System keeps locking up
by bc98kinney
Lockups can come from bad memory, so I would recommend you run memtest86 before anything else. Sometimes you have to let it go for a couple days before it finds anything. A non destructive drive test like DFT wouldn't be a bad idea either.
Sent from my Galaxy SIII
-------- Original message --------
From: John Aldrich <jmaldrich(a)yahoo.com>
Date:02/20/2014 05:42 (GMT-06:00)
To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: HELP! System keeps locking up
Hello, all...
I'm running Fedora 20 on a homebrew PC It's an AMD Athlon X2 processor with an
on-board nVidia display chipset.
This is a fresh install of F20, pretty much up to date. I had to do a fresh
install since I mangled the upgrade from F18.
Every once in awhile, mainly when I'm trying to unlock the screen, the system
will freeze up. My display is a black background with "bits" of color in a
diagonal pattern.
I say "mainly when trying to unlock the screen" because I had it happen to me
this morning (third time in 24 hours) when I was thinking of trying a different
screen saver (been using Moebius Gears) on the thought that maybe the Noveau
driver doesn't like the GL screen saver for some reason.
Every time this happens I have to use the reset button on my system. This
morning when it happened, I had an SSH window from another PC logged in and it
was frozen as well.
I have checked /var/log/messages and there is nothing in there that would
indicate a problem. There was hardly anything in there since about 8PM last
night and it's locked up twice since then.
Suggestions/thoughts/theories???
I'm running XFCE, if it matters, but still using parts of KDE as well.
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10 years, 2 months
