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PostPosted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 6:29 pm 
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Hi,
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CentOS 5.4 is on the read... Have you just
yum update
you old distro?


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PostPosted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:04 pm 
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I did yum update on one of my nodes and it's now at 5.4. I rebooted, too. Looks good so far.


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PostPosted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:05 pm 
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BarkerJr wrote:
I did yum update on one of my nodes and it's now at 5.4. I rebooted, too. Looks good so far.


what kind of services are you running on your linode?
it's all ok? no conflicts? no problem?


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PostPosted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:13 pm 
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Why don't you clone your Linode to a new one, update the clone, and see how it works?


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PostPosted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:27 pm 
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dub tee eff. Webmin really messed up my yum repositories on one of my nodes. My other CentOS linode upgraded to 5.4 easily.

edit: nevermind. upgrading using yum screwed everything up. fantastic

edit 2: somehow the network configurations got screwed up. all is well now :D


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 5:17 am 
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spearson wrote:
edit 2: somehow the network configurations got screwed up. all is well now :D


what's happening? what's the problem?


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 7:52 am 
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sblantipodi wrote:
spearson wrote:
edit 2: somehow the network configurations got screwed up. all is well now :D


what's happening? what's the problem?


/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 was replaced with the wrong config during the upgrade. That seems to be the only problem I had.


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 11:07 am 
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yum clean all; yum update;

this is the final output when it finished to download package:
Total 2.0 MB/s | 176 MB 01:29
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test


Transaction Check Error:
package gnutls-1.4.1-3.el5_3.5.x86_64 (which is newer than gnutls-1.4.1-3.el5_2.1.i386) is already installed

Error Summary
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Please help.


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 2:29 pm 
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sblantipodi wrote:
yum clean all; yum update;

this is the final output when it finished to download package:
Total 2.0 MB/s | 176 MB 01:29
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test


Transaction Check Error:
package gnutls-1.4.1-3.el5_3.5.x86_64 (which is newer than gnutls-1.4.1-3.el5_2.1.i386) is already installed

Error Summary
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Please help.


Not sure what to tell you to be honest.

I did:
yum upgrade -- it installed some stuff (I forget)

and then (again):
yum upgrade -- it upgraded/installed a bunch of stuff including CentOS 5.4

Rebooting caused me to have my network config problems that I fixed... Working well so far. Just throwing my experience out there


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how do you fixed the network problem?
what kind of problem you got?


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sblantipodi wrote:
how do you fixed the network problem?
what kind of problem you got?


see 4 posts up.


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I just upgraded my three nodes no problem. Just did 'yum update' and rebooted. Everything looks good!


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PostPosted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 4:28 pm 
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Why reboot? After updating to 5.4 we're still using the same Linode-provided kernel. Of course a reboot is a good idea to test that everything comes up OK, but strictly speaking it isn't necessary, is it? Someone correct me if I'm wrong :)


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PostPosted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 6:39 pm 
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You're probably right. I mean the only reason you should ever need to reboot Linux is when Linode updates your kernel, right? Otherwise you should be able to just restart (after recompiling if applicable) your services using the libraries you updated.


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Being new to Linode - how do we get notified if a kernel is upgraded for us?


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