Hi all, I am still having problems with my desktop system. Having updated it from 4 to 5, I now have problems with the logs. Neither boot.log nor dmesg has any data post the update. syslog appears to be normal in that it starts when it should but does not show any errors. It looks like whatever is supposed to write to the logs during initial boot is not doing so, but I am not sure where to look to see what is wrong. The other problem I have may or may not be related it is not notifying me when updates are available although Yum etc appear to be working correctly. I have all the data backed up and I could do a fresh install, but I am trying to avoid this as I would have to spend a lot of time reinstalling software etc. Any suggestions? Thanks Rob
On Nov 11, 2007 9:32 AM, Robert Slade <centos at likley.co.uk> wrote:> Hi all, > > I am still having problems with my desktop system. Having updated it > from 4 to 5, I now have problems with the logs. Neither boot.log nor > dmesg has any data post the update. syslog appears to be normal in that > it starts when it should but does not show any errors. It looks like > whatever is supposed to write to the logs during initial boot is not > doing so, but I am not sure where to look to see what is wrong.Look for some "*.rpmsave" files and specialy in /etc. Check the integrity of related packages: rpm -V sysklogd initscripts Regards> > The other problem I have may or may not be related it is not notifying > me when updates are available although Yum etc appear to be working > correctly. > > I have all the data backed up and I could do a fresh install, but I am > trying to avoid this as I would have to spend a lot of time reinstalling > software etc. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks Rob > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >-- Alain Spineux aspineux gmail com May the sources be with you
Robert Slade a ?crit :> > I have all the data backed up and I could do a fresh install, but I am > trying to avoid this as I would have to spend a lot of time reinstalling > software etc. > > Any suggestions?Yes. IMHO, it always turns out to be less of a hassle to do a fresh install than trying to jump through burning loops and upgrade from one major version to the next. I always carefully document every install I do, step by step, the more so since I have to install identical systems on many machines. I keep an SVN tree with my own documentation and configuration files. When a new release (of CentOS, Slackware, Debian, whatever) comes out, I try a manual install on a sandbox partition, and then try to automate things as much as possible. cheers, Niki Kovacs