Problem booting after Yum update of FC4

[Tony Foster]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Wilkinson [mailto:fedora at westexe.demon.co.uk]
> Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 1:27 PM
> To: Tony Foster
> Cc: 'For users of Fedora Core releases'
> Subject: Re: Problem booting after Yum update of FC4
> 
> Tony Foster wrote:
> > I was Running FC3 on a PC platform ( 64 bit Intel P4 Prescott 630 in
> Foxconn
> > mother board). When I tried to upgrade the FC with rpm I had trouble
> with my
> > network timing out.
> > Disc is a SATA drive
> > Root file system is LVM
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > I tried to update with RPM but the network timed out. I  am having the
> same
> > network time outs on my wife's Mac and a new wintel XP laptop.
> 
> What sort of Internet connection do you have? As I'd look into issues
> there...
> 
> Is there any sort of wireless involved? If it's DSL, how fast is it, and
> how far from the exchange are you?
> 
> Try "ping google.com" for several hours, and see how many packets you
> drop.
> 
> If you lose 1% or more, try traceroute google.com, and ping some of the
> first hosts on the list.

[Tony Foster] 
DSL provider is the problem. Old DSL modem (384Mbits) that they would like
me to go for a 10Mbit service and get a new modem. All machines in the house
go through these time outs. (win XP; MAC OSX; ) 
the linux machine does better then any of the others. Right around 20Mbytes
the network hits a wall and slows way down. I will try your suggestions to
get documentation to push on the ISP to replace old modem or upgrade me for
free. 
> 
> > I switched to Yum and the update proceeded smoothly but took 3 hours.
> >
> > Here is where the problems start.
> > I was searching for HelixPlayer to see if it was on the system.
> > Find returned an error
> > 	" incorrect hard link count in /proc usually a disc driver problem"
> 
> Firstly, /proc isn't on the hard disk. It's a virtual filesystem, not
> ext3. There's no way (and no point) to fsck it.
> 
[Tony Foster] 
I used to be a strong user of UNIX when I did real software devel. 
I suspect that Proc was a special case directory. The pre 7.0 unix did not
use this model. 

> This is an incompatibility between the proc filesystem and find. It's a
> known issue.
> 
> Dave Jones (Red Hat kernel guy) says an upgraded kernel should help:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-August/msg04746.html
> 
[Tony Foster] 
I let Yum grab the most recent released kernel. 
I will investigate the pointer to new kernels. I bailed since I had not seen
any responses and reloaded the system from FC4 install. I am in the process
of updating again. 
Thanks for the info on "find"  problem. Again I will investigate the
pointers. 

> You should try to get a recent kernel working. Since you say you're on
> x86-64, try
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/x86_64/
> Download and rpm -i some of the recent kernel-* packages, and see if you
> can find one that works. Presumably you've got hyperthreading on that
> CPU, so you should really use the kernel-smp-* packages, but you may
> find a non-SMP version works better.
[Tony Foster] 
Yes this CPU is a hyper threading unit.  I did have to go back to a non SMP
kernel to get the system through boot and stable.  
 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> James.
> 
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[Tony Foster] 

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