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From: Matt Giwer on 25 Jun 2008 21:37 I have noticed having and have red others having an unusual number of yum problems. It started for me with release 8 with the mix of 32 and 64 bit packages, libraries and who knows what else. When I upgraded to 9 some problems ended but new ones appeared. After noticing that all I found after a reasonable search that all the apps appeared to be 64 I took a flyer and did a fresh install last night. I can't swear to anything this soon but overnight I did # yum -y upgrade and in the morning it all went without a problem but that happened on the 9 upgrade also. If I forget to post again in a week someone ask if it did solve the problem. -- It is said just before you die your life flashes before your eyes. What if this is the flash? -- The Iron Webmaster, 4022 http://www.giwersworld.org/disinfo/occupied-2.phtml a6
From: Jean-David Beyer on 25 Jun 2008 21:48 Matt Giwer wrote: > I have noticed having and have red others having an unusual number of yum > problems. > > It started for me with release 8 with the mix of 32 and 64 bit packages, > libraries and who knows what else. What are you talking about. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is only up to RHEL 5.2 and I have no update problems with that. Red Hat Linux was discontinued some years ago at RHL 9. > > When I upgraded to 9 some problems ended but new ones appeared. > > After noticing that all I found after a reasonable search that all the apps > appeared to be 64 I took a flyer and did a fresh install last night. > > I can't swear to anything this soon but overnight I did > # yum -y upgrade and in the morning it all went without a problem but that > happened on the 9 upgrade also. I never specifically run yum or anything, since Red Hat does this automatically. > > If I forget to post again in a week someone ask if it did solve the problem. > -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 21:45:01 up 7:05, 4 users, load average: 4.11, 4.26, 4.27
From: Nico Kadel-Garcia on 26 Jun 2008 15:00 On 26 Jun, 02:48, Jean-David Beyer <jeandav...(a)verizon.net> wrote: > Matt Giwer wrote: > > I have noticed having and have red others having an unusual number of yum > > problems. > > > It started for me with release 8 with the mix of 32 and 64 bit packages, > > libraries and who knows what else. > > What are you talking about. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is only up to RHEL 5..2 > and I have no update problems with that. > > Red Hat Linux was discontinued some years ago at RHL 9. He's talking about Fedora, not RHEL.
From: Jean-David Beyer on 26 Jun 2008 17:37 Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On 26 Jun, 02:48, Jean-David Beyer <jeandav...(a)verizon.net> wrote: >> Matt Giwer wrote: >>> I have noticed having and have red others having an unusual number of yum >>> problems. >>> It started for me with release 8 with the mix of 32 and 64 bit packages, >>> libraries and who knows what else. >> What are you talking about. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is only up to RHEL 5.2 >> and I have no update problems with that. >> >> Red Hat Linux was discontinued some years ago at RHL 9. > > He's talking about Fedora, not RHEL. Should have said Fedora instead of Red Hat, then. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 17:35:01 up 1 day, 2:55, 3 users, load average: 4.09, 4.15, 4.15
From: General Schvantzkopf on 26 Jun 2008 17:38
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:37:35 -0400, Matt Giwer wrote: > I have noticed having and have red others having an unusual number of > yum problems. > > It started for me with release 8 with the mix of 32 and 64 bit > packages, > libraries and who knows what else. > > When I upgraded to 9 some problems ended but new ones appeared. > > After noticing that all I found after a reasonable search that all the > apps > appeared to be 64 I took a flyer and did a fresh install last night. > > I can't swear to anything this soon but overnight I did > # yum -y upgrade and in the morning it all went without a problem but > that happened on the 9 upgrade also. > > If I forget to post again in a week someone ask if it did solve the > problem. Fedora upgrades have always been problematic, even ordinary updates break every now and then. I always do clean installs to a different partition so that I still have my working version in place. With Fedora you want to keep testing the waters before you decide to jump into in new version. By keeping the older version in place you can keep going back until you are happy with the newer version. CentOS is a different story, upgrades will just work. However a RHEL/ CentOS upgrade is really just an update, it's not an true upgrade because all of the components are just bug fixed version of the older components. Each revision of Fedora is a major departure from the previous version so you can't really expect an upgrade to work. |