[apologies to seth, this accidentally went straight to you instead of the list] On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 23:23:03 -0500, seth vidal skvidal@phy.duke.edu wrote:
- What specific error messages are you getting? Can you cut and paste
them? It makes debugging much simpler.
"yum update" gets Cannot find any conf file
"yum -c /etc/yum.conf update" gets Error accesing File: /etc/yum.conf
"yum -c /etc/centos-yum.conf update" gets ... Downloading Packages Getting php-mysql-4.3.2-19.ent.i386.rpm php-mysql-4.3.2-19.ent.i3 100% |=========================| 28 kB 00:00 warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 025e513b Error: Could not find the GPG Key necessary to validate pkg /var/cache/yum/update/packages/php-mysql-4.3.2-19.ent.i386. rpm Error: You may want to run yum clean or remove the file: /var/cache/yum/update/packages/php-mysql-4.3.2-19.ent.i386.rpm Error: You may also check that you have the correct GPG keys installed
- output of ls -la /etc/yum.conf shows what?
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 25 Oct 28 08:01 /etc/yum.conf -> /etc/centos-base-yum.conf
- why had you rebuilt your kernel before? Do you have an odd video card
that needed some special love from the kernel?
Studying for RHCE, rebuilding a kernel was a suggested exercise. Here's the timeline: I install centos, rebuild the kernel, life is fine. I later run yum update, get a new vmlinuz-2.4.21-20.0.1.EL which, when booted, chokes on X. If I use grub to boot to the pre-update kernel all is well.
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 23:59:43 -0500, Rob Patrick rob@rpatrick.com wrote:
This is a big issue a lot of folks are having.
Thanks for that; sometimes I wonder if it's just me. I'm trying hard to make the move from dilettante looser to adequate user; somedays I feel I'm doing better than others.
You can either go back to your old kernel, or move up to a newer kernel.
Roger. Using old kernel works just fine.
I've seen a lot of this discussion over the past two days on the White Box Enterpise Linux mailing lists (which are very much like CentOS).
White Box was the first rebuild I heard of. Went with Centos because the author of the RHCE prep book I'm using says he's most familiar with it and so it should be a good choice for working through his book. Turns out I'm much happier with Centos than I am with that book. :)