[ale] Mandriva upgrade problem

[Michael Hirsch]

It is clear that something is majorly hosed on your system. Working your way
thorugh the startup and canceling one service after another is not really a
good solution. It is barely possible that you'll end up with a working
system, but it is much more likely that you'll end up turning everything off
and have a system that "runs" but provides nothing for the user.

I would recommend a fresh install, but since several live CDs can't boot, I
wonder if that will do any good. You say it runs Mandrake 9.2, so it doesn't
sound like new hardware.,. This confuses me.

If you have a spare HD, I'd recommend removing your current drive and doing
a fresh install on the spare drive. If that works, try a fresh install on
the old drive, or just use the old drive to hold your user files and boot
off the spare drive.

Michael

On 9/25/05, Mark Wright <mpwright at speedfactory.net> wrote:
>
>
> I feel like I am trying to get to the north pole by walking south. The
> earth is round and I'll get there but there is an easier way to proceed.
>
> After chkconfig-ing YP off too, the next stop the boot process makes is
> starting numlock! How do you hang starting numlock?
>
> I started browsing the config files in etc looking for the boot
> script that Geoffery suggested that I find. /etc/rc.d/init.d/ has all
> the scripts in it that keep failing. I don't know which script is the
> boot script that calls the others.
>
> Anyway... numlock is such a simple script I can read it and it is
> failing then something pretty fundamental is out of place. So I am
> going to conclude that going from 9.2 to 10.2 is not practical and it's
> time to install and just make sure /home is left alone during the
> install.
>
> Thanks for the help. That chkconfig command is cool and I am not so
> afraid of /etc/fstab anymore.
>
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 20:39:56 -0400
> Joe Steele <joe at madewell.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 19:19 -0400, Mark Wright wrote:
> > > Hey Joe! You da man!
> > >
> > > chkconfig command got me past the mounting other file systems bug.
> > >
> > > However this upgrade is still eating my lunch. It now stops a few
> > > lines down at "starting YP map server".
> > >
> > > I guess I can keep shutting things off till it comes up.
> > >
> > > Do you know how to get past this one?
> > >
> >
> > The problem now is ypxfrd. It's part of the ypserv package (which I
> > don't use). 'chkconfig ypxfrd off' would kill it. If you don't
> > need/use NIS, then you could just uninstall the ypserv package (rpm -e
> > ypserv).
> >
> > In general, you can frequently identify the problematic service by
> > grepping for its start-up message, e.g.:
> >
> > grep 'starting YP map server' /etc/rc.d/init.d/*
> >
> > --Joe
> >
> >
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