From: dan@mudhosts.net
Date: Mon May 17 1999 - 19:09:52 EDT
I did the full update program. I suppose I could down the system and
reformat and reinstall redhat, but thats kind of a pain. I didn't just do
the rpm -U (rpm list) I booted from a redhat CD and ran the CD's upgrade
routine. Is this still a bad idea?
On Mon, 17 May 1999, Brian Bruns wrote:
> Upgrading 5.2 to 6.0 via rpms without erasing the whole system is a really
> bad idea. The changes to the core setup of RH 6.0 are way to big to just
> do an rpm update. Trust me, I tried, and lost a system that way. After I
> did the package updates, everything cored and died.
>
>
> -------------------
> Brian Bruns
> Valley Of The Mage Consulting
> http://www.magenet.com/~bruns
> ICQ: 8077511
>
> On Mon, 17 May 1999 dan@mudhosts.net wrote:
>
> > I just upgraded to RedHat 6 from 5.2, and now all of a sudden, RPM2HTML
> > crashes on me. I ran it to parse the latest RPM files I'd added, and I got
> > this output:
> >
> > Scanning directory /home/ftp/pub/updates for RPMs
> > Created directory
> > "/home/httpd/html/repository/incoming/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
> > Created directory
> > "/home/httpd/html/repository/incoming/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
> > Segmentation fault
> >
> > I have no foggy idea what the heck happened, but it really does what it's
> > saying. It worked fine until I installed 6.0
> >
> > Anyone else had these problems?
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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