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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 194 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090402/e4f2c2e3/attachment-0003.sig>
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.