[96700] in RedHat Linux List
Problems upgrading RH5.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Goforth)
Wed Oct 28 21:04:27 1998
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 21:02:43 -0500
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From: Eric Goforth <ericgoforth@csi.com>
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I tried various upgrades to my RH 5.0 system as suggested in the errata. I
seemed to have screwed up my system pretty bad, I can no longer get online
with Linux. Here are the messages that I got when I tried the various
rpm's, I downloaded a bit more than half of the available ones. I was
going to finish up today.
[root@localhost errata]# rpm -U XFree86-libs-3.3.2.3-18.i386.rpm
fg: no job
control
Looking for /usr/X11R6/lib in /etc/ld.so.conf...
found
[root@localhost errata]# rpm -U
XFree86-3.3.2.3-18.i386.rpm
/usr/X11R6/bin/X conflicts with file from
xserver-wrapper-1.0-1
error: XFree86-3.3.2.3-18.i386.rpm cannot be
installed
[root@localhost errata]# rpm -U
Xconfigurator-3.26.1-1.i386.rpm
failed dependencies:
XFree86 >=
3.3.2 is needed by Xconfigurator-3.26.1-1
[root@localhost errata]# rpm -U
apache-1.2.6-5.i386.rpm
[root@localhost errata]# rpm -U
bash-1.14.7-11.i386.rpm
[root@localhost errata]# rpm -U
imap-4.1.final-1.i386.rpm
[root@localhost errata]# rpm -U
initscripts-3.67-1.i386.rpm
[root@localhost errata]# rpm -U
lpr-0.31-1.i386.rpm
[root@localhost errata]# rpm -U
minicom-1.81-3.1.i386.rpm
[root@localhost errata]# rpm -U
mutt-0.91.1-5.i386.rpm
[root@localhost errata]# rpm -U
ncurses-1.9.9e-9.i386.rpm
[root@localhost errata]# rpm -U
nfs-server-clients-2.2beta29-7.i386.rpm
[root@localhost errata]# rpm -U
rpm-2.5.3-5.0.i386.rpm
failed dependencies:
patch < 2.5 conflicts
with rpm-2.5.3-5.0
minicom no longer works correctly. The Ctrl-A-P formerly would allow me to
adjust my connection parameters ie. change from 7E1 to 8N1. None of the
previous key combinations work. On its own, this would suck, but on top of
it the key combination that's now supposed to give the online help, Alt-h
from what I recall, doesn't do anything except type weird characters on the
screen.
I now get the following messages when I try to establish a ppp connection
as root:
[root@localhost eric]# ppp
[root@localhost eric]# /usr/sbin/pppd: This system lacks kernel support for
PPP. This could be because
the PPP kernel module is not loaded, or because the kernel is
not configured for PPP. See the README.linux file in the
ppp-2.3.3 distribution.
I've also tried using KDE KPPP to log on, which formerly worked, but it
gives a message rather similar to the above.
Since I needed to post these various "screenshots" Win95 I needed to mount
a floppy drive as Win95 can't read my Linux partitions. I tried running a
script that I've written, /usr/local/bin/mfd, that mounts a floppy drive.
I was formerly able to run this when not root, but now get a message that I
must be root. I then logged out to root and tried to run it with the
following results:
[root@localhost /root]# /usr/local/bin/mfd
Unable to load NLS charset
cp437(nls_cp437)
[root@localhost /root]# cat /usr/local/bin/mfd
mount -t
msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
[root@localhost /root]# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0
/mnt
mount: /dev/fd0 already mounted or /mnt busy
mount: according to mtab,
/dev/fd0 is already mounted on /mnt
Several months ago I had upgraded my kernel from 2.0.32 to 2.0.34 without
any serious problems.
I want to go home... If I bought the Redhat 5.1 CD-ROM and installed it
would it be likely to fix my problems, or would it just screw things up
worse?
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