cart before the horse - libsane-hpaio
by Jim Cornette
I had problems when trying to upgrade with hpijs and hplip
. They would not upgrade unless I selected libsane-hpaio first and
it pulled in the above mentioned packages. The also available cvs
package installed without issue. Glibc reverted but available. :-(
JIm
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17 years, 6 months
Almost everything is segfaulting after yum update
by David Hagood
I did a yum update earlier today, and somehow have totally wedged my
computer - many critical programs segfault on startu.
If I start with SELinux enabled, the system does not get its hostname set
(i.e. NIS is broken), and nobody, not even root, can log in. Only if I
disable SELinux at boot can I even log in (yes, I have allowed it to do a
security relabel).
If I disable SELinux at boot, the machine gets its hostname and I can log
in, BUT:
su segfaults for all users other than root.
sendmail immediately segfaults. By "immediately", I mean so immediately
that even "ldd /usr/sbin/sendmail" segfaults.
Logrotate segfaults if I actually ask it to do anything, though it will
run enough to show usage.
Python segfaults - so no YUM.
gdb segfaults - so I cannot get a backtrace on the offending programs.
I'm left to enter this either on my old SGI Indy or my Nokia 770 - which
by an accident of history are roughly the same in CPU power...
17 years, 6 months
docbook2pdf missing in FC6?
by Josh
I couldn't find docbook2pdf binary after installing docbook-utils on FC6 x86-64.
This was available in FC5. It is usually me and I hope it is me.
Thanks for the wonderful release. Look forward to FC7 :-D
Josh
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17 years, 6 months
Re: new problem with graphical login - FIXED
by Dwaine Garden
I double check the rpm list in /var/log/, it did have the i686 glibc package installed.
----- Original Message ----
From: Jim Cornette <fct-cornette(a)insight.rr.com>
To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases <fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 11:09:18 AM
Subject: Re: new problem with graphical login - FIXED
Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 03:00 -0800, Dwaine Garden wrote:
>> I did the same thing and even grabbed the files from the same ftp
>> When rpm was updating, there were two script failures, reboot. I'm
>> hosed.
>
> When you all are grabbing the older glibc to reinstall it, are you
> grabbing the one for your arch? As in i686 instead of the 386? Don't
> know if that is the problem but it might be.
>
The version that bombs after the upgrade is i686. As you noted though,
it would not be too difficult to grab the i386 version when downgrading
manually with rpm.
It sounds possible that the hosed systems might have i386 versions on by
mistake.
Still waiting for a glibc fix since X and sendmail are unhappy with the
latest version.
Jim
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Re: new problem with graphical login
by Dwaine Garden
I re-ran the rpm update for glibc with the -root flag. It updated the rpms and everything is working mint.
The scripts did not fail this time around. Weird...
I really appreciate your help. You saved the day. Plus I learned about the -root flag.
Thanks Michal.
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From: Michal Jaegermann <michal(a)harddata.com>
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Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 10:55:11 AM
Subject: Re: new problem with graphical login
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 02:58:10AM -0800, Dwaine Garden wrote:
>
> With the resuce disc, it's complaining about the same sort of
> thing. When I run 'chroot /mnt/sysimage' ....
Stop there and obviously _do not do that_! In your description your
system is hosed, possibly due to failed change in glibc, and chroot
will fail. You need to examine and fix your system from "outside",
i.e. from a shell on a rescue system. '--root /mnt/sysimage' option
to rpm will be helpful in this task.
Michal
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Re: new problem with graphical login - FIXED
by Dwaine Garden
I did the same thing and even grabbed the files from the same ftp
When rpm was updating, there were two script failures, reboot. I'm hosed.
----- Original Message ----
From: Mick Mearns <off_by_1(a)yahoo.com>
To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases <fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 8:24:24 PM
Subject: Re: new problem with graphical login - FIXED
--- Michal Jaegermann <michal(a)harddata.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 03:12:30PM -0700, Dwaine Garden wrote:
> > What's the command to revert back to the older version of glibc?
>
> You need rpms for packages you want to revert and then
> rpm -Uvh --oldpackage
> <list_of_rpm_files_with_packages_you_want_here>
> In a case of glibc do not foreget about 'nscd' package if you have
> that installed.
>
> In general 'rpm --help | less' and look at results.
>
> Michal
>
Thanks - that fixed it for me (OP).
FYI I went here:
ftp://limestone.uoregon.edu/fedora/6/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS
and got:
glibc-devel-2.5-3.i386.rpm nscd-2.5-3.i386.rpm
glibc-2.5-3.i386.rpm glibc-headers-2.5-3.i386.rpm
glibc-common-2.5-3.i386.rpm glibc-utils-2.5-3.i386.rpm
then:
rpm -Uvh --oldpackage glibc*.rpm nscd*.rpm
that fixed it.
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17 years, 6 months
Re: new problem with graphical login
by Dwaine Garden
I tried to boot by editting the grub entry with 'init=/bin/bash', but it did not work
The error message was 'exec of init ('/bin/bash') failed!!!! No such file or directory.
With the resuce disc, it's complaining about the same sort of thing. When I run
'chroot /mnt/sysimage' is complains it can not find /bin/sh. The rescue disc
does find all the drives and the proper files links are in mnt. But can't mount
it to make it writable.
Any other suggestions. I don't get it. Especially when there are a few people
that reverted back fine.
Dwaine
----- Original Message ----
From: Michal Jaegermann <michal(a)harddata.com>
To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases <fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 11:33:30 PM
Subject: Re: new problem with graphical login
On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 07:17:13PM -0400, Dwaine Garden wrote:
> I reverted back, I did have a copy of the rpms. rpm
> did update the box, but failed on "Script errors" for
> glibc 2.5.90.
There is an option '--noscripts' which allows you to skip
scripts in case of errors. Installing glibc does
re-execute init.
> Now the box will not boot with an init error.
How about booting with 'init=/bin/bash'?
> Any help.. Please... I tried the rescue disk, but
> not help.
Could you be more specific what "not help" means (and stop
top-posting)? Rescue disk should use its own libraries.
At least this is the case if you will boot from an installation
disk with 'linux rescue'. Mount your disks writable, i.e.
"Continue" when asked. rpm has an option '--root' which
allows you to change a tree which will be affected by operations
so you can fix things if you really have a mess on your hands.
If you cannot boot "rescue" then you likely have a hardware
problem.
Michal
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17 years, 6 months
Terrible display flickering after FC5 update today
by Neal Becker
After today's fc5 update, I now have a horrible random flickering on my
display. I only hope fc6 (when I can finally get bt to download it) will
repair it.
This is:
(--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)" (ChipID =
0x5955)
Driver "ati"
17 years, 6 months
[OT] nouveau packages for Fedora
by Dawid Gajownik
Hi!
Right now Rawhide is really boring (devel freeze). If you have a bit
more time, nVidia card and would like to test nouveau¹ driver you can
check this page → http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FedoraPackages
Compared to standard nv driver nouveau supports EXA acceleration and is
a bit deobfuscated.
I know that it's a bit off topic for this ml, but Fedora is my distro of
choice and I thought that it's a Good Thing™ to support OSS drivers.
Binary-only blobs must die ;)
BTW nouveau requires X.Org X11R7.1 so you can't test it on FC5 :/
¹ http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/
Regards,
Dawid
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17 years, 6 months