So far I have upgraded 2 test laptops (no big servers or this, my main laptop).
I am running from local repos. The OS repo is from downloading the isos and extracting them. The Update repo I get with an rsync command.
On both laptops, the update ends with a dialog panel (oh, I am using gnome):
The NetworkManager applet caould not find some required resources. It cannot continue.
I don't see anything in /var/log/messages that might shed light on this.
On both these systems, I have the NetworkManager deamon disabled. I was able to start it in a terminal window with the services command and it seems to have worked; I see the icon on the system tray.
Meanwhile, going through messages I see a message at the end of the bootup about nm-system-settings about loading plugin ifcfg-rh.
First it parses ifcfg-lo and then notifies that it is ignoring the loopback device config. It then goes on to read ifcfg-eth0 (which is set for ONBOOT=no, so nothing more happens).
So is this dialog a 'bug' or just an artifact of upgrading from 5.2 to 5.3?
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
So far I have upgraded 2 test laptops (no big servers or this, my main laptop).
I am running from local repos. The OS repo is from downloading the isos and extracting them. The Update repo I get with an rsync command.
On both laptops, the update ends with a dialog panel (oh, I am using gnome):
The NetworkManager applet caould not find some required resources. It cannot continue.
Probably a problem with an update to wpa_supplicant not being pulled in. See the release notes.
Ralph
Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
So far I have upgraded 2 test laptops (no big servers or this, my main laptop).
I am running from local repos. The OS repo is from downloading the isos and extracting them. The Update repo I get with an rsync command.
On both laptops, the update ends with a dialog panel (oh, I am using gnome):
The NetworkManager applet caould not find some required resources. It cannot continue.
Probably a problem with an update to wpa_supplicant not being pulled in. See the release notes.
Thanks for the pointer. I will read them again. But this time I know what to focus on!
Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
So far I have upgraded 2 test laptops (no big servers or this, my main laptop).
I am running from local repos. The OS repo is from downloading the isos and extracting them. The Update repo I get with an rsync command.
On both laptops, the update ends with a dialog panel (oh, I am using gnome):
The NetworkManager applet caould not find some required resources. It cannot continue.
Probably a problem with an update to wpa_supplicant not being pulled in. See the release notes.
The release notes talk about:
In the spec file of NetworkManager-0.7.0-3.el5 Requires: wpa_supplicant >= 0.5.7-21 should be Requires: wpa_supplicant >= 1:0.5.7-21
But what I see being updated is:
1:0.5.10-8.el5
So at a guess, I'd say that wpa_supplicant has been updated since this release note, and that the spec file is still wrong. But wpa_supplicant IS being updated, ergo this is just an install process error.
Thanks Ralph.
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