On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 09:36:11AM -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > Yes, I understand that we are the apes or monkeys or whatever > that uses knuckles instead of feet to walk :-) I went to bed > at 4AM (was up at 7am on this project) and discovered that it > may be a no-no to choose 'everything' when choosing the installation > of software because I discovered why I was not able to yum update. > > Turns out that installing everything also includes things like > GFP-kernel, gnbd-kernel, cman-1.0 and so forth that as it turns > out that updates fail because there are dependenencies which I > cannot remove or update - specifically the cman-1.0-0.pre33.i386 > of which a scriptlet (%preun) refuses to remove cman due to a > "failure". I tried everything I could to remove it - and failed. > > It appears that there are too many 'gotchas' in FC4 release. In > FC3 I chosed 'everything' and to my knowledge did not run into > any known problems. Guess this is not the case with FC4. > > So - today - I will format the disk and start over with FC4 and > chose the workstation-defaults installation and select the software > that I want, manually and avoid things like 'cluster' software and > others that caused my update problem. > > BTW I was able to run Yum from within the Fedora Rescue steps and > there was a step for setting up Network Parameters before continuing > to the chroot /mnt/sysimage step. My negative about this mode is that > seem there are no means to interupt a running program once started > such as 'find' or if Yum hangs; you are forced to reboot and get > back to rescue mode again and pick up the slack where you left off. > > So far, working with FC4 as it is has been a royal pain in the a** > and I can understand it is not for the faint of heart. > > Dan Except I have machines that have been installed with everything and I can run yum update open them without any problem. I agree that the GFP-kernel, gnbd-kernel, cman-1.0 are an annoying problem. The thing I did that you did not was include extras repo in the update system. You can also use the --exclude clause to not update things you don't want to update, In addition yum remove will remove any rpms you want to remove and their dependencies. I honestly believe that the install everything was not the real problem but I admit I can't pin down what went wrong for you. -- ======================================================================= The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
