[TriLUG] up2date

[Roy Vestal]

Can you send the list a copy of your hardware? Are you using an NVidia card?
What HDD controller? Intel? AMD? SIS?  Have you tried building your own
kernel and then running up2date -nox -p to verify it works? Have you
removed/replaced up2date?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Kojetin" <djkojeti at unity.ncsu.edu>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] up2date


Hi Jeremy-

Thanks for your response --

The computer is locking up -- flashing lights on the keyboard and all.  I'm
really not sure what the problem is.  It started when I upgraded from 7.2 to
8.0.  From what I've read from searching google, there's something weird
with semi-current SMP kernels, SMP systems, and ext3 file systems.

Regardless, the failed install was thought to be a hard drive issue.  Intrex
computers (where we purchased our systems) replaced the old hard drive with
a new one -- they even check it for consistency and it was OK.

To sum up the new problem (I've done this reproducibly 5 times), I installed
RedHat 8.0 from scratch (reformat all except a /home partition), the install
goes well (provided that I use linux ide=nodma at the beginning), restart
after install, register and run up2date -- and the system crashes on package
install and I get the inode inconsistency on reboot (which trashes
everything when I run fsck manually).

I've tried various things ...
1. turning off APM (I think it's called ACPI for my MSI mobo)
2. upgrading the BIOS to the current version
3. installing the updated kernel first (which installs fine, but when I
reboot and run up2date again I get the same lockups on package install)
4. running up2date in and out of SMP kernels
5. installing subsets of packages instead of all at once
6. formatting with ext2 instead of ext3 at install
7. running command-line version of up2date instead of the GUI

The only think I can think of that I have not tried is out of GNOME/KDE.

I'm ready to give up, but we need the box for data analysis.

I'm all eyes if you have any info to pass along.  Thanks-
Doug


> Message: 31
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] up2date
> From: Jeremy Portzer <jeremyp at pobox.com>
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Date: 30 Jan 2003 10:46:10 -0500
> Reply-To: trilug at trilug.org
>
> On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 10:31, Chris Knowles wrote:
> > >From the man page:
> >=20
> >       =E2=80=90d, =E2=80=90=E2=80=90download
> >         download  packages  only,  do  not install them.  This option is
> > provided so that you can override the configuration  option
> "Do not
> > install packages after retrieval."  It is mutually exclusive
> with the
> > =E2=80=90=E2=80=90install option.
>
> Also useful to note is that when packages are downloaded, but not
> installed, they go into /var/spool/up2date .
>
> Also, are you sure your whole computer is locking up?  Or just up2date
> and rpm?   You really shouldn't have to reboot your whole computer just
> because of something with up2date.
>
> --Jeremy

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