> -----Original Message----- > From: James Wilkinson [mailto:fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 1:27 PM > To: Tony Foster > Cc: 'For users of Fedora Core releases' > Subject: Re: Problem booting after Yum update of FC4 > > Tony Foster wrote: > > I was Running FC3 on a PC platform ( 64 bit Intel P4 Prescott 630 in > Foxconn > > mother board). When I tried to upgrade the FC with rpm I had trouble > with my > > network timing out. > > Disc is a SATA drive > > Root file system is LVM > > <snip> > > > I tried to update with RPM but the network timed out. I am having the > same > > network time outs on my wife's Mac and a new wintel XP laptop. > > What sort of Internet connection do you have? As I'd look into issues > there... > > Is there any sort of wireless involved? If it's DSL, how fast is it, and > how far from the exchange are you? > > Try "ping google.com" for several hours, and see how many packets you > drop. > > If you lose 1% or more, try traceroute google.com, and ping some of the > first hosts on the list. [Tony Foster] DSL provider is the problem. Old DSL modem (384Mbits) that they would like me to go for a 10Mbit service and get a new modem. All machines in the house go through these time outs. (win XP; MAC OSX; ) the linux machine does better then any of the others. Right around 20Mbytes the network hits a wall and slows way down. I will try your suggestions to get documentation to push on the ISP to replace old modem or upgrade me for free. > > > I switched to Yum and the update proceeded smoothly but took 3 hours. > > > > Here is where the problems start. > > I was searching for HelixPlayer to see if it was on the system. > > Find returned an error > > " incorrect hard link count in /proc usually a disc driver problem" > > Firstly, /proc isn't on the hard disk. It's a virtual filesystem, not > ext3. There's no way (and no point) to fsck it. > [Tony Foster] I used to be a strong user of UNIX when I did real software devel. I suspect that Proc was a special case directory. The pre 7.0 unix did not use this model. > This is an incompatibility between the proc filesystem and find. It's a > known issue. > > Dave Jones (Red Hat kernel guy) says an upgraded kernel should help: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-August/msg04746.html > [Tony Foster] I let Yum grab the most recent released kernel. I will investigate the pointer to new kernels. I bailed since I had not seen any responses and reloaded the system from FC4 install. I am in the process of updating again. Thanks for the info on "find" problem. Again I will investigate the pointers. > You should try to get a recent kernel working. Since you say you're on > x86-64, try > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/x86_64/ > Download and rpm -i some of the recent kernel-* packages, and see if you > can find one that works. Presumably you've got hyperthreading on that > CPU, so you should really use the kernel-smp-* packages, but you may > find a non-SMP version works better. [Tony Foster] Yes this CPU is a hyper threading unit. I did have to go back to a non SMP kernel to get the system through boot and stable. > Hope this helps, > > James. > > -- > E-mail address: james | In the Royal Air Force a landing's OK, > @westexe.demon.co.uk | If the pilot gets out and can still walk away. > | But in the Fleet Air Arm the outlook is grim, > | If your landings are duff and you've not learnt to > swim. [Tony Foster] Tony Foster Tony_Foster@xxxxxxxxxxxx "Any sufficiently advanced technology is virtually indistinguishable from magic." (Arthur C. Clarke)
