FWIW:
A yum upgrade on my main server (no pre-loading kernel, yum, etc),
caused a hiccup. I didn't see the x86_64 release notes until too late.
I did see the useradd chomping down CPU time. I ignored it as long as
possible, but then the install wound up hanging the machine. Rebooted,
and had to do some fancy tweaking using yum to restore the system to a
stable state. Not difficult, just a minor annoyance.
I am not sure if others are having issues with the 4.2 upgrade, but
it might be a good idea to avoid upgrading the package (I think it was
mysql) to avoid hitting that.
That said, apart from a missing firewire driver, I am quite happy
with Centos (and that is an upstream provider issue, addressed for the
most part in centosplus). The minor pain I went through with this is
nothing compared to the days of sheer abject terror I went through using
other distributions "upgrade" system.
Good work folks!
joe
Robert wrote:
> Karanbir Singh wrote:
>
>> Robert wrote:
>>
>>> I did a yum upgrade AFTER first manually installing the new kernel.
>>
>>
>> why did you manually need to install the kernel ?
>
> Because a "yum update kernel" offered to install the -SMP kernel. This
> is, no doubt, an artifact of anaconda & associates deciding at the time
> CentOS4 was first installed that an SMP kernel was appropriate for an
> Athlon XP in an ASUS A7NX8 ver.2 deluxe m/b, compounded by my packrat
> reluctance to throw it away at the outset.
>> you can / should use yum to do that for you. perhaps go with a 'yum
>> update yum' before you kick everything off with a 'yum update'.
>
> THAT is what I would definitely do different.
>
>> if you really want the kernel in and running before you do the yum
>> update, then do a yum update yum; yum update kernel; reboot; yum update
>
> No. I didn't want -- or have -- the new kernel running before the
> update. I simply wanted it to be available.
>
> I'm reasonably sure everything is gonna be O.K. Yum is one of the
> packages that gets reported twice:
>
> [root@mavis yum.repos.d]# rpm -q yum
> yum-2.2.1-1.centos4
> yum-2.4.0-1.centos4
>
> The correct version gets executed:
>
> [root@mavis yum.repos.d]# yum --version
> 2.4.0
>
> ...but the list of files installed is screwy. So, it looks like my work
> is cut out for me:
>
> [root@mavis yum]# rpm -qa | gawk -F-[0123456789] '{ print $1 }' | sort |
> uniq | wc -l
> 1433
> [root@mavis yum]# rpm -qa | gawk -F-[0123456789] '{ print $1 }' | sort |
> wc -l
> 1655
>
> I'm not overwhelmed by brilliant ideas for scripting the obvious. :-(
>
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