YUM problems...¿?¿?¿
by Miguel Angel Morales García
Hi.
After upgrade my Fedora at release 1 (Yarrow), yum show this message:
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will do the following:
[install: kernel 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.i686]
[update: yum 2.0.4-2.noarch]
[update: indexhtml 2:1-1.noarch]
[update: kernel-source 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.i386]
[update: up2date 4.1.14-2.i386]
[update: desktop-backgrounds-basic 2.0-17.noarch]
[update: fedora-release 1-2.i386]
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Damaged RPM /var/cache/yum/base/packages/yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm,
removing.
Getting yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm
yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm 100% |=========================| 5.8 kB
00:00
yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm 100% |=========================| 5.8 kB
00:00
yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm 100% |=========================| 5.8 kB
00:00
yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm 100% |=========================| 5.8 kB
00:00
yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm 100% |=========================| 5.8 kB
00:00
yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm 100% |=========================| 5.8 kB
00:00
retrygrab() failed for:
http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/s390x/Fedora/RPMS/yum-2.0....
Executing failover method
failover: out of servers to try
Error getting file
http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/s390x/Fedora/RPMS/yum-2.0....
[Errno -1] RPM /var/cache/yum/base/packages/yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm fails
md5 check
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My question is.... i need modify my yum.conf file after upgrade at
Release 1 or is correct with repository of Fedora 0.95???
Sorry, my english is very bad :-)
Bye.
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20 years, 6 months
KDE 3.2
by Greg Mitchell
If anyone knows where I can get binary rpms for KDE 3.2 test, let me know. I'm
not interested in installing all the needed libraries and spending the next 3
days compiling. But, if I can find RPMs, I'd like to test them out.
They will need to work with Fedora.
Thanks.
Greg
20 years, 6 months
Re: Redhat to Fedora - up2date/RHN
by Damian Donnelly
Thanks, this addresses a fair few doubts that I had. Something like that
should be on the Fedora website.
----Original Message Follows----
From: Peter Boy <pboy(a)barkhof.uni-bremen.de>
Reply-To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
Subject: Re: Redhat to Fedora - up2date/RHN
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 11:07:47 +0100
Hello,
Am Di, den 04.11.2003 schrieb Charles Gregory um 06:41:
> Now, less than a year later, Red Hat (basic) is being dropped, the RH
> "Enterprise Edition" is ridiculously expensive (for a small
not-for-profit
> community net, anyways),
You may be one of those who will suffer from that change in Red Hats
marketing strategie. There are a lot of similiar fears, here. But things
are really not as worse as they some people consider it to be. You may
check out Red Hat Professional Workstation (about $ 100), which should
fullfill your criteria well. You will benefit from a prolonged RHN
subscription. And still quite affordable.
> and while everyone seems to think that this
> 'Fedora' project is an adeqaute replacement, there are no real documents
> on *how* to make this migration/transition,
It's just an update, just as any previous RH version
> and whether 'up2date' will
> continue to work in the same way. Or how it *will* work if it is
> different.
It will, using it's own fedora repository
> There is also no clear indication in the downloads page of which versions
> are 'stable' and suitable for a production server environment, and which
> ones are 'test' versions. Or I'm looking in the wrong place.
You are :-) Using the software you will see repositories fedora-core
and fedura-updates-released (and perhaps fedora-updates-testing in the
future). And there will be rawhide for testing / beta / alpha stuff.
> To me there
> is a much stronger flavour of Fedora being a 'test' or 'development' site
> that than a place to obtain stable Linux distributions. But this can't be
> right, can it?
Fedora is meant to be as stable as Red Hat Linux has been. But its life
time will be shorter (about 8-9 months). So you will have to update your
machines more ffrequently. Might be not a good idea for servers.
Another difference is support. There is no "guranteered" support for
Fedora, but there will be a "de facto" support. Might be sufficient for
some environements but will definitely not for a lot of others.
Again, check Red Hat Professional Workstation as an alternative.
Peter
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RE: Several questions
by David.Pawson@rnib.org.uk
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thaddeus Nielsen
> My fedora 1 up2date uses yum and has worked much more smoothly
> than the beta versions. Have you downloaded the latest up2date
> (4.1.14-2)?
For my education, does up2date act as a front end to yum please?
I.e. its yum that retrieves packages from redhat, then hands off to rpm?
I found the repeated mentions of yum confusing till this message
gave a clue.
TIA, DaveP
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20 years, 6 months
Re: info on installing, rather confused
by anthony crage
Thanks for the info, but going to that page about disk partitioning led me
to another question:
It mentions issues with "EZ-BIOS" being present... and I am pretty sure that
is used somewhere, but due to not having complete control (and thus the
ability to know what is going on when it goes on), I have no idea what it is
or what it does... or why it may or may not cause a problem.
So should I be worried about it? Or will it most likely not cause a problem?
>From: Timothy John Giese <giese025(a)tc.umn.edu>
>Reply-To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
>To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
>Subject: Re: info on installing, rather confused
>Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 22:18:27 -0600
>
>anthony crage wrote:
>
>>
>>After the tech reformatted the HDD, he split our 45 gig HDD into 2
>>partitions: a 30 gig and a 15. So, it registers as this in windows:
>>A:\ floppy
>>C:\ 30 gig partition
>>D:\ a second 6 gig HDD
>>E:\ 15 gig partition
>>F:\ cd-rw
>>G:\ cd-rom
>
>Here is a guide to installing RedHat 9... unless there have been major
>changes to anaconda (the program that guides you through the installation),
>the guide should be fairly applicable to Fedora.
>
>http://linux.about.com/library/bl/dist/redhat/bldist_redhat_inst.htm
>
>The two things that you should focus your reading on is:
>1. disk partitioning
>2. boot loader configuration
>
>Anaconda should recognize that windows is installed on the computer.
>If your E:\ drive is formatted (if you can actually use it), then you may
>need to manually setup your partitions with Disk Druid.
>If your E:\ drive is unformatted free space, then you can have anaconda
>automatically partition the remaining space.
>
>If you manually partition your drive with Disk Druid, then
>1. Make sure you are not deleting one of the windows partitions! :) Look
>at the sizes of the partitions... you should be able to see which one is
>the 16GB partition.
>2. You will need to break that partition up into two partitions:
> A) Swap partition (the size should be 2x the memory of your system)
> B) A parition with a mount point of "/". I suggest using the ext3
>filesystem for this.
>
>You can create other partitions, but I don't want to confuse you here.
>
>If windows is already installed, then the boot loader configuration will
>likely see that windows is there and you probably not have to do anything
>special.
>(The boot loader is a piece of software that starts when the computer is
>booted before an operating system is started. The boot loader lets you
>choose what operating system the computer should boot.)
>
>-Tim
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20 years, 6 months
Re: Update RedHat 9
by Ben Russo
Ben Russo wrote:
> Jeff Allison wrote:
>
>> Antonio Montagnani wrote:
>>
>>> Ben Russo wrote:
>>>
>>>> Nowhereman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I essentially did it by adding the RedHat rawhide channel to a
>>>> RedHat 9 box,
>>>> eventually the redhat-release package got updated and my universe
>>>> suddenly
>>>> transformed from REDHAT to FEDORA.
>>>>
>>>> Ben
>>>
>>>
>>> How did you go through procedure?? please will you post step-by-step
>>> instructions??
>>>
>>> Tnx
>>>
>>> Antonio
>>>
>> Or at least some hints
>>
>> Jeff
>
>
>
> Well, it is a little diffferent now then it was when I did it several
> weeks ago
> because the packages have changed and the redhat ftp site paths have
> changed.
>
> But, I have an RH9 box here, so what the heck....
>
> wget
> http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-re...
>
> rpm -Uvh fedora-release-1-1.i386.rpm
> [root@loon root]# rpm -qa | grep release
> fedora-release-1-1
> ################## NOTE, "redhat-release" isn't
> there any more.
>
>
> [root@loon root]# wget
> http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/Fedora/RPMS/up2date-4...
>
> [root@loon root]# wget
> http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/Fedora/RPMS/rhnlib-1....
>
> [root@loon root]# rpm -Uvh rhnlib-1.4-1.noarch.rpm
> up2date-4.1.14-2.i386.rpm
> [root@loon root]# rpm --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY
>
> I don't know if you will have to re-do this on your
> machine, but I had to do it on mine...
> rhnreg_ks --force --username=MYRHNID --profilename=Bens-Home-WS
> --password=RHNPASS --useNoSSLForPackages --email=ben(a)e-mail.domain.com
>
> [root@loon root]# wget
> http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/Fedora/RPMS/rpm-build...
>
> [root@loon root]# wget
> http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/Fedora/RPMS/rpm-devel...
>
> [root@loon root]# wget
> http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/Fedora/RPMS/rpm-pytho...
>
> [root@loon root]# wget
> http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/Fedora/RPMS/beecrypt-...
>
> [root@loon root]# wget
> http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/Fedora/RPMS/popt-1.8....
>
> [root@loon root]# rpm -Uvh rpm-4.2.1-0.30.i386.rpm
> rpm-build-4.2.1-0.30.i386.rpm rpm-devel-4.2.1-0.30.i386.rpm
> rpm-python-4.2.1-0.30.i386.rpm beecrypt-3.0.1-0.20030630.1.i386.rpm
> popt-1.8.1-0.30.i386.rpm
>
>
> No matter what I did up2date said I had to rpm --import
> /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY
> I also did /usr/bin/gpg --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY
> That didn't completely solve the problem.
> first, edited /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date and set usegpg=0
> even on clean installs of Fedora I have found that the up2date
> processes
> seem to have lot's of problems with package signatures.
> and I also set the gpgKeyRing=/root/.gnupg/pubring.gpg
>
> Then I went to init 3, shutdown xfs, xinetd, portmap, sendmail, gpm,
> syslog...
> basically everything that isn't necessary for up2date.
>
> Then I ran "up2date -u"
>
> [root@loon root]# up2date -u
>
> Fetching package list for channel: fedora-core-1...
>
> Fetching
> http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1/headers/header.info...
> ########################################
>
> Fetching package list for channel: updates-released...
>
> Fetching
> http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/released/fedora-core-1/headers/header.
> info...
> ########################################
>
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: fedora-core-1...
>
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: updates-released...
>
> Fetching rpm headers...
> ########################################
>
> ....
> (((( and it went on and on for HOURS )))).
>
20 years, 6 months
info on installing, rather confused
by anthony crage
I was a bit more confident when approaching the idea of installing fedora,
but after reading about... I'm a bit more unsure of my talent in relation to
being able to do this. So I'm trying to build a better understanding.
Anyway, I'm a bit above average as far as computer users go (I make well
formatted XHTML 1.0 strict, use CSS to format, have set up a couple
DAW/HDR's and can generally work my way out of most problems).. But not that
much when it comes to anything like this. I've been wanting to move to Linux
for a while, but lack of HDD space and heavily authoritarian parents have
kept me from it. We recently had our whole HDD reformatted by an idiot tech
who didn't listen to a word I said. The silver lining is that I now can
install Linux.
After the tech reformatted the HDD, he split our 45 gig HDD into 2
partitions: a 30 gig and a 15. So, it registers as this in windows:
A:\ floppy
C:\ 30 gig partition
D:\ a second 6 gig HDD
E:\ 15 gig partition
F:\ cd-rw
G:\ cd-rom
What I'd like to do is throw fedora onto the 15 gig and have it coexist (as
in, not harm) the windows 98 that is currently running on the C:\ drive (we
havn't upgraded to XP due to a lack of funds). Not knowing as much dealing
with hardware as I should, I'm utterly confused what I am supposed to do.
Several bits about the BIOS only being able to see so much of the HDD and
such just left me confused and unconfident. So in other words, how do I go
about this? Will I have any issues with how the HDD is split up? Is there
anything I should worry about and watch out for? Anything I should learn
beforehand?
Thanks for any help and I'm sorry for having to result to this. I know there
was that whole document that probably answered most of my questions... But
like I said, it just left me confused and unconfident.
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20 years, 6 months
MySQL user 'root' without password is fine?!
by Robert Scheck
Hello,
playing around with the latest MySQL from Rawhide, I noticed, that there is
a bug or a problem in the new MySQL init script.
My "problem" was, that I set a password to the MySQL user 'root' and so the
original new init script fails.
I posted that at bugzilla, my posting is closed now, because supposedly all
works fine and it isn't a problem...
I personally think that's a brashness!
It is a pity, that the bugzilla report only can be read by the group
'rhnpm', so I was so free to post it here again ;-)
BTW: The original report was: #108779
If I read all correctly you don't need a password for the MySQL user 'root'
- that's fine and it's no security hole - really nice! :-/
On a test system installed Fedora Core 1 with the actual mysql - NOTHING
changed:
mysql> SELECT HOST,USER,PASSWORD FROM user;
+-------------+------+----------+
| HOST | USER | PASSWORD |
+-------------+------+----------+
| localhost | root | |
| sirendipity | root | |
| localhost | | |
| sirendipity | | |
+-------------+------+----------+
4 rows in set (0.01 sec)
$ netstat -alpen | grep mysql
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:3306 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 0 346662 19079/mysqld
It's good to know, that here isn't any security problem, too.
10.0.0.2 = sirendipity
# mysql -h 10.0.0.2 -u root
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 2 to server version: 3.23.58
So root has still to set a password as you can read it at SecurityFocus:
http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1726
I actually interpret the current default configuration of mysql and the
init script absolutely as misconfiguration.
In my eyes NOTHING is okay - that doesn't fit to the other Red Hat security
patches and settings!
So what's up?! Could someone explain me, why with my message so wrongly did
to me?
--- snipp from Bugzilla #108779 ---
Opened by (Robert Scheck) on 2003-11-01 16:56
Description of problem, how reproducible and steps to reproduce:
# service mysqld restart
Stopping MySQL: [ OK ]
Timeout error occurred trying to start MySQL Daemon.
Starting MySQL: [FAILED]
#
It displays only an error, but mysqld lives!
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mysql-3.23.58-4
Actual results:
If I do a mysqladmin ping at my system I get the following:
# mysqladmin ping
mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using password: NO)'
#
I've to use a password:
# mysqladmin -u root -p ping
Enter password:
mysqld is alive
#
Or I've to use the MySQL user:
# mysqladmin -u mysqld ping
mysqld is alive
#
Expected results and additional info:
The error is caused by that section:
> # Spin for a maximum of ten seconds waiting for the server to come up
> if [ $ret -eq 0 ]; then
> for x in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10; do
> if [ -n "`/usr/bin/mysqladmin ping 2> /dev/null`" ]; then
> break;
> else
> sleep 1;
> fi
> done
> if !([ -n "`/usr/bin/mysqladmin ping 2> /dev/null`" ]); then
> echo "Timeout error occurred trying to start MySQL Daemon."
> action $"Starting $prog: " /bin/false
> else
> action $"Starting $prog: " /bin/true
> fi
> else
> action $"Starting $prog: " /bin/false
> fi
You can't do that so - you've seen it above!
I added a new init script solving that problem.
And I think it's ugly to use "2> /dev/null" at a Bash script...
---
Additional Comment #1 From Robert Scheck on 2003-11-01 17:02
Created an attachment (id=95652)
Fix for mysqld for /etc/init.d
---
Additional Comment #2 From Kim Ho on 2003-11-03 11:20
I am having problems reproducing this problem.
[root@tomaluk init.d]# service mysqld start
Initializing MySQL database: [ OK ]
Starting MySQL: [ OK ]
[root@tomaluk init.d]# mysqladmin ping
mysqld is alive
[root@tomaluk init.d]#
[root@tomaluk init.d]# service mysqld restart
Stopping MySQL: [ OK ]
Starting MySQL: [ OK ]
[root@tomaluk init.d]# service mysqld stop
Stopping MySQL: [ OK ]
[root@tomaluk init.d]#
The only way I was able to reproduce it was:
mysql> select user,host from user;
+------+----------------------------+
| user | host |
+------+----------------------------+
| | localhost |
| root | localhost |
| | tomaluk.toronto.redhat.com |
| root | tomaluk.toronto.redhat.com |
+------+----------------------------+
4 rows in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> delete from user where user='';
Query OK, 2 rows affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> \q
Bye
[root@tomaluk init.d]# mysqladmin ping
mysqld is alive
[root@tomaluk init.d]# service mysqld restart
Stopping MySQL: [ OK ]
Timeout error occurred trying to start MySQL Daemon.
Starting MySQL: [FAILED]
[root@tomaluk init.d]# mysqladmin -u root ping
mysqld is alive
Please let me know if the users in mysql have been changed. (e.g. the
removal of anonymous users)
---
Additional Comment #3 From Robert Scheck on 2003-11-03 11:37
mysql> select user,host from user;
+---------+-----------+
| user | host |
+---------+-----------+
| root | hurricane |
| | localhost |
+---------+-----------+
Well, I only gave root a password...
And it's correct to give mysql-root a password, because that is explicit
written in the mysql documentation!
---
Additional Comment #4 From Robert Scheck on 2003-11-03 11:45
Have a look to the documentation:
http://www.mysql.de/doc/en/Default_privileges.html
---
Additional Comment #5 From Kim Ho on 2003-11-03 14:05
The defaults work fine.
If you change the settings, then you will have to make the appropriate
changes in the scripts.
---
Additional Comment #6 From Robert Scheck on 2003-11-03 15:38
The default works fine, as long as the admin doesn't change the password
for the mysql root user.
But as described in the MySQL admin documentation, everybody _must_ change
this, in order to close a security hole:
> Because your installation is initially wide open, one of the first
> things you should do is specify a password for the MySQL root user.
> You can do this as follows (note that you specify the password
> using the PASSWORD() function):
> Try mysql -u root. If you are able to connect successfully to the
> server without being asked for a password, you have problems.
> Anyone can connect to your MySQL server as the MySQL root user with
> full privileges! Review the MySQL installation instructions, paying
> particular attention to the item about setting a root password.
One solution would be to create a "dummy" mysql user restricted to
localhost and with no rights.
Another solution would be to remove the new changes and to live without a
check whether the mysql server runs or not.
And could you please remove the binding in bugzilla to the group rhnpm?
Thank you very much. I think that's interesting for other users, too.
---
Additional Comment #7 From Kim Ho on 2003-11-03 15:54
No.. if everyone _HAS TO_ change this, it would have been part of
setting up MySQL.
It is not part of the defaults of MySQL and therefore, we will not be
changing it.
--- snapp from Bugzilla #108779 ---
Yours sincerly,
Robert
20 years, 6 months
Broken SMB access in Fedora Core
by Felix Miata
In Fedora Core beta3 I'm using the same /etc/samba/smb.conf I used in
shrike and that I use in SuSE and Mandrake. In all the others I
can/could both read and copy files from Linux via the samba connected
OS/2 or windoze machine. Now in FC, OS/2 can only see files on Linux, it
can't copy anything to a local destination, saying "access denied".
What's been changed for Samba 3 that broke OS/2?
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20 years, 6 months