On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, MKlinke wrote: > On Thursday 13 November 2003 17:29, HaJo Schatz wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 23:39, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > On 13 Nov 2003 20:58:02 +0800, HaJo Schatz wrote: > > > > FYI, I just downloaded & installed above through Up2Date on a > > > > more-or-less stock RH9 installation. After that, GNOME login > > > > wasn't possible > > > > > > You're not running RHL kernels, right? > > > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109904 > > > > Got me there ;-) I admit, once my system was unstable I didn't bother > > fiddling with lynx & after reverting, I considered it a "bad > > experience of the past" without googling further. > > > > Quite troublesome though if up2date simply installs without warning > > me -- and then breaks rpm so I can't roll back. > > > > TNx, > > HaJo > > up2date has a test switch, --dry-run I think, that you can use to see > what's coming your way. I know it won't help this time but you can > also add package names to the skip list in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date > so they won't get downloaded unless you force the issue. > > Regards, Mike Klinke "up2date -l" lists the RPMs that are to be installed, but that doesn't really address the question of how to know if something like a glibc install is going to break something. Thus, always keep a bootable stock kernel handy. In the thread on this issue in fedora-list (IIRC), Jakub pointed out that QA was done with stock RH kernels. Seems reasonable that that would be the extent of RH's QA responsibility. Nevertheless, Jakub has a fix in the works. I think you can grab it to test from his area at ftp://people.redhat.com. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
