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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