S.W. Bobcat wrote:
Yep, been there and done that. There seems to be a problem with the
2.6.16 series of kernels. In my case certain apps simply stopped
working, and could no longer be installed. I found a clunky but
workable work around. You need to reinstall your system, BUT...
1) When you get to INSTALL select CUSTOM
2) EDIT your pations however:
3) DO NOT format a) your / [root] partiton b) your /home partition
, Leave data unchanged.
4) IF you have seperate /var and /tmp patitions, format only those.
5) When the screen comes up asking for software to be installed. a)
Slect all the GUIs KDE, GNOME, etc. b) Select all System Tools, and
Admin Tools there might be one more I can't think of at the mpoment
but it might be under the graphics. c) UNMARK EVERYTHING ELSE
6) continue with the reinstall.
This will bring you back to the original config with the original
setup, but you origial data will be preserved and only the corupted
files will be overwritten. There are two areas that you may or may
not want to update they are the kernel 2.6.16 series, and the
xorg-x11 files. I know the kernal is a problem, because, after a
seperate install of the rpm using the rpm -ivh ... .rpm command which
installed the kernel, but left the other kernals in place, when I
boot into the 2.6.16 series of kernals, someof my software stopped
working, but if i dropped back to the 2.6.15 series the same software
that did not run under the 2.6.6 kernal ran just fine. Go figure. The
best way to figure out where your problems lie is to use konquer and
go back to the last previous date of yout last update, then check the
date of your newest update and see what packages have been updated. I
would again be careful about updating and installing the kernal and
xorg-x11 files ; or slect one or the other and then do the update, if
it then fails you can then say "Ah-Ha!!
Hope this helps
Bob
Did a normal yum update - enabled repos were core, updates,
extras, kde-redhat-stable, and kde-redhat-testing (both
kde-redhat include the 'all')
I didn't make a list but the major stuff updated was gnome and
evolution.
The machine won't boot into current or previous kernel. It gets
to just before the log-in screen and locks up with a blue screen
and a frozen pointer. If I boot into run-level 3, I get a log in
prompt, but it won't accept a user name - it just returns the
same prompt after entering the user.
On start-up, I see failures to start crond, sshd, cupsd, and
atd -
I've been on location in Washington for the past two days. Thanks for
yours, and the other response(s). Last night, I was able to boot a
couple of rescue cd's, and it appears that I may have a bad sector on my
system drive. I can't mount my / partition, which is separate from the
/boot partition, so maybe that explains all the errors. More diagnostics
tonight...
