Bug 20414 - RH 6.1 to 7.0 upgrade: Can not start syslogger
Summary: RH 6.1 to 7.0 upgrade: Can not start syslogger
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: installer
Version: 7.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Brock Organ
QA Contact: Brock Organ
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-11-06 11:23 UTC by stuart boreen
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:29 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2000-11-15 16:56:03 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
/tmp/upgrade.log (132.66 KB, text/plain)
2000-11-06 11:24 UTC, stuart boreen
no flags Details
result of "ls -oc" in the bad /usr/lib directory (74.14 KB, text/plain)
2000-11-06 11:27 UTC, stuart boreen
no flags Details
contents of /var/spool/up2date (1.50 KB, text/plain)
2000-11-08 02:07 UTC, stuart boreen
no flags Details
the last /var/log/dmesg (4.50 KB, text/plain)
2000-11-08 02:09 UTC, stuart boreen
no flags Details
/var/log/messages (18.36 KB, text/plain)
2000-11-08 02:10 UTC, stuart boreen
no flags Details

Description stuart boreen 2000-11-06 11:23:31 UTC
I did an upgrade from 6.1 to 7.0 
I used a cd from your web site -- iso image.
I asked to install what was needed to satisfy package dependencies.
On rebooting, at startup, it says: starting syslogger...and freezes.
After a long time out it says [failed] then locks up on mounting SMB files.
I had another version of 6.1 on an old slow disk and I am able to start it
and look at the 7.0 info: /tmp/upgrade.log is full of "/usr/lib/*** not
found"
Also there are broken symlinks in /usr/lib
This does not seem to be a duplicate of other install bugs.

Comment 1 stuart boreen 2000-11-06 11:24:58 UTC
Created attachment 5059 [details]
/tmp/upgrade.log

Comment 2 stuart boreen 2000-11-06 11:27:16 UTC
Created attachment 5060 [details]
result of "ls -oc" in the bad /usr/lib directory

Comment 3 Michael Fulbright 2000-11-07 19:23:31 UTC
What would we need to do to reproduce this problem?

Comment 4 stuart boreen 2000-11-08 02:07:35 UTC
Created attachment 5143 [details]
contents of /var/spool/up2date

Comment 5 stuart boreen 2000-11-08 02:09:04 UTC
Created attachment 5144 [details]
the last /var/log/dmesg

Comment 6 stuart boreen 2000-11-08 02:10:12 UTC
Created attachment 5145 [details]
/var/log/messages

Comment 7 stuart boreen 2000-11-08 10:50:48 UTC
I think that the problem relates to the state of the system before I tried the
upgrade. I had upgraded to some RH6.2 programs and even I think, a 7.0 program
or 2. I used update agent and ftp sites.
Try setting up a 6.1 sys updated with the updates I have in /var/spool/up2date
and see if you can reproduce it.

Comment 8 Michael Fulbright 2000-11-13 20:03:01 UTC
Passed to QA to reproduce.

Comment 9 Brock Organ 2000-11-15 16:55:59 UTC
hmmm ... I could not reproduce your problem ...

With a 6.1 Workstation install, I updated to the following packages (the closest
subset of your list that was easily available) ... after the upgrade, I was able
to boot into the 7.0 system, didn't freeze @ starting the system logger ...

apache-1.3.14-2.6.2.i386.rpm
glibc-2.1.3-21.i386.rpm
gmc-4.5.40-2.i386.rpm
gnumeric-0.38-8.i386.rpm
gpm-1.19.3-0.6.x.i386.rpm
gpm-devel-1.19.3-0.6.x.i386.rpm
groff-1.15-1.i386.rpm
groff-gxditview-1.15-1.i386.rpm
gtop-1.0.5-1.i386.rpm
libghttp-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm
libtiff-3.5.4-1.i386.rpm
libxml-1.7.3-1.i386.rpm
libxml-devel-1.7.3-1.i386.rpm
nmh-1.0.3-6x.i386.rpm
pam-0.72-20.i386.rpm
perl-5.00503-12.i386.rpm
samba-2.0.7-4.i386.rpm
samba-client-2.0.7-4.i386.rpm
samba-common-2.0.7-4.i386.rpm
sysklogd-1.3.31-17.i386.rpm
SysVinit-2.78-5.i386.rpm
wu-ftpd-2.6.0-14.6x.i386.rpm

please reopen if you have any other info you can provide to help reproduce this
... thanks for your report!


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