[Aurora-sparc-user] Problems with yum upgrade has left my machine

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 01:44:51PM +0100, Dave Barton wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
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> 
> I’ve been running Aurora Beta2.0 on my Ultra 10 (333MHz UltraSPARCIIi
> with 128MB RAM and 20GB HDD) for around 6 months now. It’s been working
> as my mail and web server as well as my network router and development
> platform. Lots of work for a little box, but once I got past the
> prelinking issues it’s been plain sailing.
> 
> I decided to take the plunge and upgrade to the final release of 2.0 so
> I used yum to upgrade the system. All the downloads and transaction tests
> went through fine, but when it came to the installs, I got this;
> 
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> Updating: redhat-menus 100 % done 1/384
> 
> Updating: hwdata 100 % done 2/384
> 
> Updating: fonts-xorg-75dpi 100 % done 3/384
> 
> Updating: glibc-common 100 % done 4/384
> 
> warning: /etc/localtime created as /etc/localtime.rpmnew
> 
> Updating: glibc 100 % done 5/384
> 
> /usr/sbin/glibc_post_upgrade: While trying to execute /usr/sbin/iconvconfig.sparc child terminated abnormally
> 
> error: %post(glibc-2.3.6-0.fc3.1.sparc) scriptlet failed, exit status 115
[...] 
> error: %post(kdepim-3.4.2-0.al2.1.sparc) scriptlet failed, exit status 0
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> At this point I killed the Yum process, but any commands result in either
> a “Bus Error” or a segfault. I can’t make new SSH connections but old ones
> are still up.

Heh. I had the same problem, but I let it run anyway and after it was complete,
the system was operational again.

> I have most of my data backed up, but I have email on the system I’d like to
> retrieve and also a lot of work has gone into configuring things like webmail,
> VPN and routing. Is this system fixable? I’m okay with Linux, but not an expert.
> Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> If I have to flatline the box and reinstall using the new 2.0 isos, would it
> be better to install to another HDD and then mount this one and copy the
> data/configs off to the new disk?

It'll probably be enough to take that disk, put it into another sparc and reinstall
all the packages from 2.0.

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Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <rathann*at*icm.edu.pl>
Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling
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