hdwr HPQ DC7700S ix86 Core Duo
I have just updated this CentOS-5.3 box to 5.4. This process was not satisfactory. While the update packages all downloaded without problem the update process itself stalled at several points. By stalled I mean that at some point the entire process stopped for hours. The packages at which it stalled included evince, evolution, totem and vinfo. There may have been others but these I seem to recall.
Restarting the update process required that the existing update be interrupted with a <ctrl>C and yum-complete-transaction run. It took five iterations to get through to completion and in the end I first installed all the remaining packages one at a time directly from the command line using yum install packagename and then ran yum-complete-transaction until all outstanding transactions were cleaned up.
Now, while the system boots I have no gnome desktops for any of the users on this host. When root logs in all that is shown is a deep blue background and a wirefram outline of the Firefox web browser, a wire frame outline of an xterm window and an analogue clock. Left clicking on teh background displays a popup menu labeled "Tvm".
The mouse and keyboard work and when one clicks on the wireframs then immediately fill with the application background, the CentOS welcome back for FireFox and a black on white scheme for xterm. All the windows have teal menu bars. Further, it seems that I cannot switch between windows. If I try to enter a command in the xterm window then what I type appears in this compose window for squirrelmail.
I would like to get my previous customised desktops back, but first I would like to get the default to display. Are there any ideas on how to proceed?
Sincerely,
On Thu, October 22, 2009 15:34, James B. Byrne wrote:
hdwr HPQ DC7700S ix86 Core Duo
I have just updated this CentOS-5.3 box to 5.4. This process was not satisfactory.
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I would like to get my previous customised desktops back, but first I would like to get the default to display. Are there any ideas on how to proceed?
On a hunch I did a 'yum list gno* | more' and discovered that gnome-session was not installed. Installing gnome-session, as you may imagine, solved the problem of the missing desktops.
Now the question is: how it is that an update can remove the gnome-session package without first installing its replacement, if indeed gnome-session was part of the update at all?
Sincerely,
On Thu, October 22, 2009 15:34, James B. Byrne wrote:
hdwr HPQ DC7700S ix86 Core Duo
I have just updated this CentOS-5.3 box to 5.4. This process was not satisfactory.
...
I would like to get my previous customised desktops back, but first I would like to get the default to display. Are there any ideas on how to proceed?
On a hunch I did a 'yum list gno* | more' and discovered that gnome-session was not installed. Installing gnome-session, as you may imagine, solved the problem of the missing desktops.
Now the question is: how it is that an update can remove the gnome-session package without first installing its replacement, if indeed gnome-session was part of the update at all?
Sincerely,
James B. Byrne wrote:
On Thu, October 22, 2009 15:34, James B. Byrne wrote:
hdwr HPQ DC7700S ix86 Core Duo
I have just updated this CentOS-5.3 box to 5.4. This process was not satisfactory.
...
I would like to get my previous customised desktops back, but first I would like to get the default to display. Are there any ideas on how to proceed?
On a hunch I did a 'yum list gno* | more' and discovered that gnome-session was not installed. Installing gnome-session, as you may imagine, solved the problem of the missing desktops.
Now the question is: how it is that an update can remove the gnome-session package without first installing its replacement, if indeed gnome-session was part of the update at all?
I can't answer your question, but out of curiosity, did you just do a simple yum update or did you follow the procedure in the release notes document?
Les Mikesell wrote:
but out of curiosity, did you just do a simple yum update or did you follow the procedure in the release notes document?
Where is this document?
Incidentally, I did a simple yum update and it seemed to work fine.
On 10/23/2009 01:31 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Where is this document?
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There's a link to it on the front page of http://www.centos.org/
Mogens
Mogens Kjaer wrote:
On 10/23/2009 01:31 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Where is this document?
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There's a link to it on the front page of http://www.centos.org/
The link was also included in the announcements that 5.4 was ready.
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
but out of curiosity, did you just do a simple yum update or did you follow the procedure in the release notes document?
Where is this document?
Incidentally, I did a simple yum update and it seemed to work fine.
On the centos.org homepage there are two links to release announcements. The "Distro Release Announcement" link says all you need to do is run "yum update". The "Release Notes: CentOS" link recommends updating glibc, yum, rpm, and python first. I did need to run "yum update yum" before the full update would succeed.
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