Re: Force to update to f10, but yum can't bring it into synch.

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On Thursday 26 February 2009, Craig White wrote:
>On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 23:19 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> The initial, commented /dev/sdb is correct, /dev/sda is the master drive
>> on this mobo's only PATA interface, and is not normally mounted. /dev/sdb
>> is the first SATA drive, and is selected as the first bootable hard disk
>> in the bios. So I assume then that my command line to install grub again
>> would then be: grub-install /dev/sdb ?
>
>----
>it seems odd that you would have it set to /dev/sdb and grub as (hd0,0).

Apparently that is just one of the gotcha's of running a very high priced 
(nearly 300 bucks bare) ASUS motherboard.  It does damned little as you would 
expect it to do.  If I had known that ASUS was on the ropes, and that their 
support sucked dead toads through soda straws, I wouldn't have touched it with 
your credit card let alone mine.

>It shouldn't hurt I would think if you did grub-install to both /dev/sda
>and /dev/sdb. Most modern BIOS allows you to pick the boot order of the
>various drive types.

# this device map was generated by anaconda
(hd0)     /dev/sda
(hd1)	  /dev/sdb
And that file is dated back on the 15th of feb 2009.  And I was NOT screwing 
with it then.  So, based on that I did another grub-install on /dev/sda.

Here is a df report
[root@coyote ~]# df                                                          
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on           
/dev/sda3            468832020  87577712 357054796  20% /                    
/dev/sda1               194442    121466     62937  66% /boot
/dev/sdc1            961432072 293643964 618950108  33% /amandatapes
tmpfs                  2074712         0   2074712   0% /dev/shm
//goat.coyote.den/goat
                      58134488   4302672  50901964   8% /mnt/goat
//shop.coyote.den/shop-slash
                      37800748   4647876  31232708  13% /mnt/shop
/dev/sde1             38456308  30008496   6494312  83% /media/d


and I did some poking around with smartctl and that PATA drive, a 320Gb 
Maxtor, is actually registered into F10 as /dev/sdd.  Go figure, it makes zero 
sense to me.

>----
>
>> >> 2. Yum wants to update 435 packages, but many dependencies stop it. 
>> >> What is the f10 procedure to bring that up to speed now?
>> >
>> >----
>> >you probably have some packages that have to be manually removed that
>> >are blocking the update.
>>
>> I will probably hit a package that does this eventually, I have it
>> processing the updates displayed about 1 yumex screen full at a time, and
>> so far that hasn't triggered a dependency storm.  That knocking sound,
>> yeah, you know what it is.
>
>----
>package-cleanup --orphans will give you a lot of guidance on packages
>that it can't update.
>----
>
>> I have tons of self compiled stuff here, and will again shortly.  The
>> radeonhd driver supplied with the dvd is so slow I can repaint the screen
>> with a 2" wide paint brush faster.
>
>----
>in theory, that shouldn't have any impact on upgrades IF you put the
>compiled stuff in /usr/local

Often that is not the case, cuz identically named stuff is searched for in 
/usr/lib well before /usr/local/lib.  This would be a great way to just update 
what we needed locally, but the search order makes sure it finds version 1.2.4 
when we've been running 2.2.8 for a year.  So we give up trying to bend it, 
and just build it with a --prefix=/usr and be done with it.  Of course the 
rpms get overwritten and the system eventually goes tits up.

Now, if someone could tell me how to make it search /usr/local/* first, I'd be 
glad to follow those guidelines.  I'd step into my src dir and rebuild and 
reinstall everything there to put itself into /usr/local then.
[...]
>get the updates installed first. You might find that the rpmfusion fglrx
>package is more to your liking though I wouldn't think that there would
>much of a performance difference between F9 and F10 w/r/t radeonhd but
>then again, I'm not using it.

The problem with that is that the fglrx is married to the kernel version.
radeonhd at least, is only married to the x server version, and that is what I 
broke when I built the git pull of it.  Besides that, I have yet to get fps 
out of fglrx that I get from radeonhd.  That is one of the first things I had 
yumex update, but I haven't rebooted to try it yet.  I'm just happier than a 
pig in it that the new kmail picked right up where the old one left off, it 
all works and I haven't touched a thing yet.

Thanks Craig.

>Craig

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