On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Larry K <lunchtimela...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, guys. I bumped it up to fc15 and the problem went away. > > As for CentOS, I like the idea of a more stable platform. I;d prefer not to > be upgrading all the time. I tried a test install of CentOS on a spare > machine and it seems to be picky about my older motherboard, or something in > my BIOS. The install finally went through, but the subsequent reboot never > finished, and I got a stack trace...Oh well. > > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 9:53 AM, John Pilkington <j.p...@tesco.net> wrote: >> >> On 22/02/12 14:25, George Galt wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Larry K<lunchtimela...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> I just used yum upgrade to go from fc12 to fc14, and mostly, it went >>>> well. >>>> I have the system up, and was able to install the latest >>>> nvidia-graphics >>>> package using yum. now, when I try to install mythtv, I get these >>>> errors: >> >> >>> I'm surprised Axel still has Fedora 14 files around. Fedora 14 went >>> EOL in December >>> >>> (http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-November/003010.html). >>> Fedora 15 works fine. You really should move up -- or if you want a >>> more stable platform, move to CentOS 6. >>> >>> As for your problem, my guess is that you are running into a problem >>> some of us experienced a few weeks back regarding an ABI change to >>> some of the Fedora updates files. It was fixed for FC15 and FC16, but >>> since FC14 is EOL, it probably won't get fixed there. >> >> >> In fact there are newly updated f14 packages there, but I don't imagine >> that will go on for much longer. >> >> I haven't seen any other comments about this news item, which reinforces >> your comment. >> >>> http://nl.zdnet.co.uk/qGne3BDaic/GqDpG >> >> >> By Ben Woods , 1 February, 2012 12:23 >> Daily Newsletters >> >> Open-source software provider Red Hat has said it will support its current >> generation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 for 10 years, adding three years to >> the platform's lifecycle. >> >> Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 will also now have a 10-year lifecycle, >> the company said in a blog post on Tuesday. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> atrpms-users mailing list >> atrpms-users@atrpms.net >> http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/atrpms-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > atrpms-users mailing list > atrpms-users@atrpms.net > http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/atrpms-users
Make sure the "spare machine" has enough for the specs. I believe CentOS 6 requires 1GB RAM for a GUI install, but doesn't warn you of this during the install process -- it just dies after a while. _______________________________________________ atrpms-users mailing list atrpms-users@atrpms.net http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/atrpms-users
