severn up2date oddities (was RE: cyclical dependencies?)

[Vanco, Donald]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
>  Vanco, Donald (VANCOD(a)PIOS.com) said:
> > [root@localhost up2date]# rpm -ivh
> > redhat-config-securitylevel-tui-1.2.3-1.i386.rpm
> > Preparing...
>  ###########################################
> > [100%]
> >         file /usr/sbin/lokkit from install of
> > redhat-config-securitylevel-tui-1.2.3-1 conflicts with file from
> > package lokkit-0.50-24.1
>  
>  Upgrade, not install. r-c-s-tui obsoletes lokkit. 
	Ah - makes sense.

	So - after upgrading 264 packages I rebooted.  

Interesting things of note:

In GRUB menu, the UP kernel is now first with the SMP kernel second - they
were reversed prior to up2date.

Upon first boot kudzu hung the system (as far as I could tell - console not
responsive for many minutes) so I (hard) rebooted with "interactive" mode
skipping kudzu.  This got me into the system.

Upon second boot I got
INIT: Entering runlevel: 3
followed immediately by:
open (/dev/console) Input/output error
...and init quits.  ctrl-alt-del functions to reboot system

(methinks kb/mouse config got garbled somehow?)

Third boot - kudzu now wants to remove "keyboard unknown".....

Fourth boot - back to "normal"


I did not move the positions of any USB devices in this process.

System:
Shuttle i865 based "XPC" system (includes graphics and AC97 sound)
2.4GHz P4 (800MHz FSB, HT enabled)
1/2GB 400MHz DDR
Serial ATA HD (with 8MB buffer - syncs seem to take a long time; for some
reason smartd does not do anything to this drive - just the floppy?)
USB KB & Mouse
USB digital media reader
USB floppy (not attached during any of this)

	...don't know that anything here is particularly noteworthy, just
passing this on as it seems a bit messy..

Don

[Paul Morgan]

On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 16:20, Vanco, Donald wrote:
>  Shuttle i865 based "XPC" system (includes graphics and AC97
> sound)
>  2.4GHz P4 (800MHz FSB, HT enabled)
>  1/2GB 400MHz DDR
>  Serial ATA HD (with 8MB buffer - syncs seem to take a long time; for some
>  reason smartd does not do anything to this drive - just the floppy?)
>  USB KB & Mouse
>  USB digital media reader
>  USB floppy (not attached during any of this)
>  
>  	...don't know that anything here is particularly noteworthy, just
>  passing this on as it seems a bit messy.. 
FYI...

I have a Shuttle SN41G2 Athlon XP, ps/2 keyboard and mouse, no floppy.

Booting from the Severn Beta 1 iso hangs at /sbin/loader
I had previously been running RH9.

Installing from Taroon Beta2 iso went fine but cannot get X running
reliably...keeps dying. I first tried the generic nvidia gforce 4 mx
driver from the iso and then tried the nvidia-4363 driver from nvidia's
website. The nvidia driver was absolutely no good...locks up the whole
machine. 

I am using an nvnet driver rpm that I had downloaded from nvidia a few
months ago to enable the built-in ethernet nic. Glad I kept that rpm
around.