Upgrade from 8.0 to 8.2 gone very badly....need help!
I tried sending this Friday night, but found this morning it kicked back to me because it was too large of an email. I upgraded my work system from 8.0 to 8.2 and everything went perfectly!! Now, being Friday night and 2 Long Island Ice Teas in me, I decided to upgrade my home system. Firstly, let me say, that this was my "tester" machine. When I screwed things up and figured out how to fix them, I did it the right way on my work system. I had dependency problems all over the place. Rather than explain everything, here's my boot log. I'm sure in a heartbeat you'll see the problem. I can see it, I just don't know how to fix it. Here it goes (the part I think where things go south is in RED): Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.4.20-4GB Loaded 20952 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.4.20-4GB. Symbols match kernel version 2.4.20. Loaded 202 symbols from 11 modules. klogd 1.4.1, log source = ksyslog started. *********had to cut everything else out because the email was too large for the server. If you want, I can send as attachment.************ <notice>'/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S13nscd start' exits with status 0 <notice>/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S13rpmconfigcheck start Searching for unresolved configuration files done (This is where things start to get bad...) Please check the following files (see /var/adm/rpmconfigcheck): /etc/HOSTNAME.rpmnew /etc/X11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc.rpmsave /etc/X11/qtrc.rpmnew /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/cs.rpmsave /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/cs_qwerty.rpmsave /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/gr.rpmsave /etc/aliases.rpmnew /etc/apt/apt.conf.rpmsave /etc/apt/sources.list.rpmnew /etc/apt/sources.list.rpmsave /etc/cups/classes.conf.rpmnew /etc/cups/classes.conf.rpmsave /etc/cups/client.conf.rpmnew /etc/cups/client.conf.rpmsave /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.rpmnew /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.rpmsave /etc/cups/printers.conf.rpmnew /etc/cups/printers.conf.rpmsave /etc/hosts.allow.rpmnew /etc/httpd/httpd.conf.rpmnew /etc/httpd/suse_addmodule.conf.rpmsave /etc/httpd/suse_loadmodule.conf.rpmsave /etc/inetd.conf.rpmnew /etc/init.d/postfix.rpmsave /etc/init.d/xntpd.rpmsave /etc/inittab.rpmnew /etc/isdn/isdn.conf.rpmsave /etc/mailcap.rpmsave /etc/mime.types.rpmsave /etc/postfix/main.cf.rpmnew /etc/postfix/master.cf.rpmnew /etc/profile.rpmsave /etc/samba/smb.conf.rpmnew /etc/samba/smb.conf.rpmsave /etc/ssh/ssh_config.rpmnew /etc/ssh/sshd_config.rpmnew /etc/sudoers.rpmnew /etc/sysconfig/network/config.rpmnew /etc/syslog.conf.rpmsave /etc/wvdial.conf.rpmnew /usr/share/info/dir.rpmnew <notice>'/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S13rpmconfigcheck start' exits with status 0 <notice>/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S13sshd start Starting SSH daemon<notice>startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/sshd) [ /usr/sbin/sshd -o PidFile=/var/run/sshd.init.pid ], [ CONSOLE=/dev/console TERM=linux SHELL=/bin/sh progress=36 INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.82 REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 AUTOBOOT=YES COLUMNS=118 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ PREVLEVEL=N LINES=38 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 BOOT_IMAGE=linux splash=silent sscripts=43 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/sshd ] done <notice>'/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S13sshd start' exits with status 0 <notice>/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S13yiff start Starting yiff done <notice>'/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S13yiff start' exits with status 0 <notice>/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S14joystick start Starting joystick driver/lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB/kernel/drivers/char/joystick/ns558.o: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg /lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB/kernel/drivers/char/joystick/ns558.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB/kernel/drivers/char/joystick/ns558.o failed /lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB/kernel/drivers/char/joystick/ns558.o: insmod ns558 failed done <notice>'/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S14joystick start' exits with status 0 <notice>/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S14kbd start /dev/dsp: Cannot open for playing. Loading keymap qwerty/us.map.gz doneLoading compose table winkeys shiftctrl latin1.add done Loading console font lat1-16.psfu doneLoading screenmap none doneSetting up console ttys done<notice>'/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S14kbd start' exits with status 0 <notice>/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S14splash start <notice>'/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S14splash start' exits with status 0 <notice>/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S15hwscan start Starting hardware scan on boot<notice>'/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S15hwscan start' exits with status 0 <notice>/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S16xdm start Starting service xdm<notice>startproc: execve (/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm) [ /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm ], [ LC_MONETARY= CONSOLE=/dev/console TERM=linux SHELL=/bin/sh LC_NUMERIC= QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3 LC_ALL= progress=42 INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.82 KDEROOTHOME=/root/.kdm REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 AUTOBOOT=YES COLUMNS=118 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin LC_MESSAGES= RUNLEVEL=5 LC_COLLATE=POSIX PWD=/ LANG=en_US PREVLEVEL=N LINES=38 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 BOOT_IMAGE=linux no_proxy=localhost RC_LC_COLLATE=POSIX WINDOWMANAGER=/usr/X11R6/bin/kde PRINTER=lp RC_LANG=en_US LC_CTYPE=en_US splash=silent sscripts=43 LC_TIME= _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm ] done <notice>'/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S16xdm start' exits with status 0 <notice>/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S20inetd start Starting inetd<notice> done startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/inetd) [ /usr/sbin/inetd ], [ CONSOLE=/dev/console TERM=linux SHELL=/bin/sh progress=43 INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.82 REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 AUTOBOOT=YES COLUMNS=118 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ PREVLEVEL=N LINES=38 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 BOOT_IMAGE=linux splash=silent sscripts=43 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/inetd ] <notice>'/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S20inetd start' exits with status 0 <notice>/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S21splash_late start <notice>'/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S21splash_late start' exits with status 0 Master Resource Control: runlevel 5 has been reached Skipped services in runlevel 5: smbfs nfs <notice>killproc: kill(686,3) <The End> Maybe I should have had 3 Long Islands??? Right now I'm using fvwm window manager. Any help would be great! If I wanted to do a fresh install, but still keep my /home/tom files in tact, how can I do it? I'd like to clean this computer up. Thanks!! Tom P.S. It's almost 12:00am California time and I don't know how much longer I can stay up, so don't expect me to respond too quickly. :-) --- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems, Inc. 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com
While that is an option, I prefer not to lose my /home directory. Tom On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 08:29, Landy wrote:
Thanks!! Tom P.S. It's almost 12:00am California time and I don't know how much longer I can stay up, so don't expect me to respond too quickly. :-)
how about a ms response.
do a clean install
--- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems, Inc. 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com
On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 10:38, Tom Nielsen wrote:
While that is an option, I prefer not to lose my /home directory.
Is your /home directory on a separate partition? If it is, why not format all the other partitions and leave /home as it is? dj tuchler
Tom
On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 08:29, Landy wrote:
Thanks!! Tom P.S. It's almost 12:00am California time and I don't know how much longer I can stay up, so don't expect me to respond too quickly. :-)
how about a ms response.
do a clean install
---
Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems, Inc. 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com
--
Dennis Tuchler
How do I check? What's the line command since nothing else works? Tom On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 08:51, Dennis Tuchler wrote:
On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 10:38, Tom Nielsen wrote:
While that is an option, I prefer not to lose my /home directory.
Is your /home directory on a separate partition? If it is, why not format all the other partitions and leave /home as it is?
dj tuchler
Tom
On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 08:29, Landy wrote:
Thanks!! Tom P.S. It's almost 12:00am California time and I don't know how much longer I can stay up, so don't expect me to respond too quickly. :-)
how about a ms response.
do a clean install
---
Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems, Inc. 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com
--- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems, Inc. 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com
On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 12:21, Tom Nielsen wrote:
How do I check? What's the line command since nothing else works?
cat /etc/fstab This gives you a list of devices and shows where they are mounted. For example, the line /dev/hda3 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2 tells me that one of the partitions is mounted at /home. hda1 is mounted at /, and hda2 is a swap-formatted partition. good luck dj tuchler
Tom
On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 08:51, Dennis Tuchler wrote:
On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 10:38, Tom Nielsen wrote:
While that is an option, I prefer not to lose my /home directory.
Is your /home directory on a separate partition? If it is, why not format all the other partitions and leave /home as it is?
dj tuchler
Tom
On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 08:29, Landy wrote:
Thanks!! Tom P.S. It's almost 12:00am California time and I don't know how much longer I can stay up, so don't expect me to respond too quickly. :-)
how about a ms response.
do a clean install
---
Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems, Inc. 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com
---
Tom Nielsen
Neuro Logic Systems, Inc.
805.389.5435 x18
www.neuro-logic.com
--
Dennis Tuchler
On Saturday 26 April 2003 08:38, Tom Nielsen wrote:
While that is an option, I prefer not to lose my /home directory.
If /home is on a separate partition (and it should be IMHO) that won't be an issue. If you don't have /home on a separate partition, you might want to take this opportunity (if you can) to back up your /home and re-do the partitioning so that you can do clean installs in the future. Steve
On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 08:29, Landy wrote:
Thanks!! Tom P.S. It's almost 12:00am California time and I don't know how much longer I can stay up, so don't expect me to respond too quickly. :-)
how about a ms response.
do a clean install
---
Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems, Inc. 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com
Well, I only have /boot, swap and / No /home. I guess I'm kind of screwed huh? Is there a way to mount my windows drive and copy /home to there so that I can copy it back? Would that work? There's really no way for me to back it up at this point, I can't get to my cd record program. Thanks, Tom On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 09:27, Steve wrote:
On Saturday 26 April 2003 08:38, Tom Nielsen wrote:
While that is an option, I prefer not to lose my /home directory.
If /home is on a separate partition (and it should be IMHO) that won't be an issue. If you don't have /home on a separate partition, you might want to take this opportunity (if you can) to back up your /home and re-do the partitioning so that you can do clean installs in the future.
Steve
On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 08:29, Landy wrote:
Thanks!! Tom P.S. It's almost 12:00am California time and I don't know how much longer I can stay up, so don't expect me to respond too quickly. :-)
how about a ms response.
do a clean install
---
Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems, Inc. 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com
--- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems, Inc. 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com
Tom, That depends on your Windoze file system. How is it formatted? FAT32 or NTFS? I personally have a 120Gb drive with 20Gb for Linux and 20Gb for Windoze and 80 for "data" which I use as a communal drive between the two OSs. Even though I RARELY get into Windoze, it is nice. so I can move about and reinstall freely. </Jared> On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 11:33, Tom Nielsen wrote:
Well, I only have /boot, swap and / No /home. I guess I'm kind of screwed huh?
Is there a way to mount my windows drive and copy /home to there so that I can copy it back? Would that work? There's really no way for me to back it up at this point, I can't get to my cd record program.
Thanks, Tom
On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 09:27, Steve wrote:
On Saturday 26 April 2003 08:38, Tom Nielsen wrote:
While that is an option, I prefer not to lose my /home directory.
If /home is on a separate partition (and it should be IMHO) that won't be an issue. If you don't have /home on a separate partition, you might want to take this opportunity (if you can) to back up your /home and re-do the partitioning so that you can do clean installs in the future.
Steve
On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 08:29, Landy wrote:
Thanks!! Tom P.S. It's almost 12:00am California time and I don't know how much longer I can stay up, so don't expect me to respond too quickly. :-)
how about a ms response.
do a clean install
---
Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems, Inc. 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com
---
Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems, Inc. 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com -- "Turd Ferguson. Yeah, he's a funny guy." ~Burt Reynolds (As portrayed by Norm McDonald of SNL)
BTW, my "/data" part is formatted with FAT32. NTFS under, last I used it at lest, was still in alpha and will cause data loss. </Jared> On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 11:45, Turd Ferguson wrote:
Tom, That depends on your Windoze file system. How is it formatted? FAT32 or NTFS?
I personally have a 120Gb drive with 20Gb for Linux and 20Gb for Windoze and 80 for "data" which I use as a communal drive between the two OSs. Even though I RARELY get into Windoze, it is nice. so I can move about and reinstall freely.
</Jared>
On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 11:33, Tom Nielsen wrote:
Well, I only have /boot, swap and / No /home. I guess I'm kind of screwed huh?
Is there a way to mount my windows drive and copy /home to there so that I can copy it back? Would that work? There's really no way for me to back it up at this point, I can't get to my cd record program.
Thanks, Tom
On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 09:27, Steve wrote:
On Saturday 26 April 2003 08:38, Tom Nielsen wrote:
While that is an option, I prefer not to lose my /home directory.
If /home is on a separate partition (and it should be IMHO) that won't be an issue. If you don't have /home on a separate partition, you might want to take this opportunity (if you can) to back up your /home and re-do the partitioning so that you can do clean installs in the future.
Steve
On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 08:29, Landy wrote:
Thanks!! Tom P.S. It's almost 12:00am California time and I don't know how much longer I can stay up, so don't expect me to respond too quickly. :-)
how about a ms response.
do a clean install
---
Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems, Inc. 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com
---
Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems, Inc. 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com -- "Turd Ferguson. Yeah, he's a funny guy." ~Burt Reynolds (As portrayed by Norm McDonald of SNL) -- "Turd Ferguson. Yeah, he's a funny guy." ~Burt Reynolds (As portrayed by Norm McDonald of SNL)
Well, I only have /boot, swap and / No /home. I guess I'm kind of screwed huh?
FWIW, I prefer to have seperate partitions for the following: / /boot swap /home /opt /usr /var Pretty much allows the most flexibility. You should be able to mount and write to your Windows partition so long as it's FAT16 or FAT32. NTFS partitions can only be read from, not written to as I understand it (no dual boot machines here). I'd use tar to create an archive file - something like: tar cf /mnt/windows-c/home.tar /home/userid ...assuming you've mounted your windows partition as /mnt/windows-c. You can filter this through bzip2 to compress it if you want: tar jcf /mnt/windows-c/home.tar.bz2 /home/userid I'm pretty sure this grabs all the hidden files in /home/userid as well. If not, I'm sure someone will correct me. -- John LeMay KC2KTH Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC | http://www.njmc.com | Phone 732-557-4848 Specializing in Microsoft and Unix based solutions
The 03.04.26 at 10:33, Tom Nielsen wrote:
Is there a way to mount my windows drive and copy /home to there so that I can copy it back? Would that work? There's really no way for me to back it up at this point, I can't get to my cd record program.
Start the rescue system from the cd or dvd. You will be able to copy anything from there; I would tar or tar.gz it. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
On Saturday 26 April 2003 16:38, Tom Nielsen wrote:
While that is an option, I prefer not to lose my /home directory.
/home should be always kept on a separate partition to avoid such problems. It is known that distro's upgrade is unreliable. It is better to backup your /home somewhere, perform a clean install using a smart partitioning scheme, and restore all the data from the backup. For my system, I usually use a /home/data partition to store data and softlink it under my home as documents folder, to avoid any possible conflict or incosistency between conf files under user's home. -- Andrea Negro andrea@alessandria.linux.it ICQ 25458773
On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, Tom just had to get this off his chest:
I tried sending this Friday night, but found this morning it kicked back to me because it was too large of an email.
I'm glad I supply my own server.
I had dependency problems all over the place. Rather than explain everything, here's my boot log. I'm sure in a heartbeat you'll see the problem. I can see it, I just don't know how to fix it.
To be honest, no, I don't see the problem. If you mean the *.rpmnew and *.rpmsave files; look at them, and if there no longer used delete them.
*********had to cut everything else out because the email was too large for the server. If you want, I can send as attachment.************
$ la -h /var/log/boot.msg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25K Apr 26 10:55 /var/log/boot.msg 25k is too large to send in an email through your ISP? What kind of anal service is that?
(This is where things start to get bad...)
Please check the following files (see /var/adm/rpmconfigcheck): [..]
Nothing bad here, just a warning.
<notice>/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S14joystick start Starting joystick driver/lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB/kernel/drivers/char/joystick/ns558.o: init_module: No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
It didn't find a joystick.
/dev/dsp: Cannot open for playing.
Sound system not configured yet?
<notice>/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S16xdm start [..] done
<notice>'/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S16xdm start' exits with status 0
X started, you should be able to login.
Master Resource Control: runlevel 5 has been reached
Done, besides some minor issues no problems.
Maybe I should have had 3 Long Islands??? Right now I'm using fvwm window manager. Any help would be great! If I wanted to do a fresh install, but still keep my /home/tom files in tact, how can I do it? I'd like to clean this computer up.
Maybe you should start telling what the fsck the problem is. Btw: please trim your lines to 72 <= chars <=78 Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 27N , 4 29 45E. SuSE 8.2 x86 Kernel k_Athlon 2.4.20-4GB See headers for PGP/GPG info.
The 03.04.26 at 08:27, Tom Nielsen wrote:
Here it goes (the part I think where things go south is in RED):
Sorry, no RED color shows anywhere, the list is supposed to be plain text only.
*********had to cut everything else out because the email was too large for the server. If you want, I can send as attachment.************
Just email the error part, not the full log.
(This is where things start to get bad...)
Please check the following files (see /var/adm/rpmconfigcheck):
/etc/HOSTNAME.rpmnew
/etc/X11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc.rpmsave
That is not an error, it is information. You should check all those configuraton files and compare with the actual files. *.rpmsave are copies of the original which were replaced. When you find *.rpmnew files it means that the original was left in place, and the new one was created for your inspection. Just edit the configuration files, compare with the listed files, and decide what you want to modify. Then, delete or move somewhere else those copies. Admin work ;-)
<notice>/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S14joystick start Starting joystick driver/lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB/kernel/drivers/char/joystick/ns558.o: init_module: No such device
Configure joystick some other time.
Maybe I should have had 3 Long Islands??? Right now I'm using fvwm window manager. Any help would be great! If I wanted to do a fresh install, but still keep my /home/tom files in tact, how can I do it? I'd like to clean this computer up.
I don't see anything wrong there... you just need some admin work to do. :-) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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