Re: network has gone down again, and I cannot figure out why

Ric Moore <wayward4now@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Sort of responding to my own post... Given the above, I found the

following output from yum today to be quite amusing:

Added 63 new packages, deleted 51 old in 28.11 seconds
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for bind-config to pack into transaction set.

bind-config-9.3.2-20.FC5. 100% |=========================| 35 kB 00:00 ---> Package bind-config.i386 30:9.3.2-20.FC5 set to be updated

--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: bind = 30:9.3.2-20.FC5 for package: bind-config
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Error: Missing Dependency: bind = 30:9.3.2-20.FC5 is needed by package bind-config

Thu Sep 28 12:50:31 MDT 2006
[root@spindle ~]# rpm -q bind
bind-9.3.2-33.fc5
[root@spindle ~]# rpm -q bind-config
package bind-config is not installed

Looks like some part of FC5 still thinks bind-config is needed. I have a funny feeling I'll have to figure out why or yum updates will fail on bind-config dependencies until I do.

I went for broke, as I posted earlier in the week, and installed the FC6
bind rpms and the system-setup* rpms and this crate runs smooth. I would
hazard a guess that any one with weirdness going on, on their network,
network printers, file sharing, you name it, might be in those packages.
I notice that it tried to update you from 30:9.3.2-20 and it would have
taken you to 2-35 I think it was. That's where it went to Hell. I'm
using 2.41 from FC6 and it's great. No more strange stuff in hosts,
either. All weirdness gone. Ric

Cheers,
Dave

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