On 27/01/17 23:28, John Pilkington wrote:
On 27/01/17 22:08, Mark Stodola wrote:
On 01/27/2017 01:42 PM, John Pilkington wrote:
As I noted, my system seems to have updated happily. I started it from
yumex by enabling the rolling repos. But I've just been examining my
grandson's, which yesterday 'welcomed' him to emergency mode. I'm afraid
he doesn't fit the SL target user profile and his access time is
limited.
yum history shows 531 packages auto-updated two days ago, but clearly
the process was interrupted and I'm not familiar with enabling net
access on a broken system. I'm hoping that I shall be able to use a 7.3
installation disk to recover.
John P
Just to clarify, did you enable the 7x or the actual rolling repo? The
rolling repo is not meant for production use, but for testing packages
before posting them to the stable trees (i.e. 7.2, 7.3). To stay on the
latest release, you want to use 7x, which is a symlink to the latest
stable branch.
-Mark
I'm using yumex and the names shown were changed automatically during my
(successful) update. Now I have sl, sl-security, sl-fastbugs enabled
and shown as 7.3 The only option I see now is rolling (pre-release).
No 7x
IIRC, earlier this week I had the 7x option set but no major update had
happened. Around 16:00 UTC on 26 Jan I changed from 7x to rolling
repos in the GUI and started a manual update; after the update a set of
security updates showed and I applied those too. I don't think I did
reboot between these actions - not what I reported earlier.
Both these systems have been getting routine auto updates for the past
several months, from 7x, but only one is now giving trouble, probably
from a mid-process closedown during the major auto update. That box is
closed down often. Mine is usually on but no major update happened
until I forced it. I think that was a day later - and I had therefore
assumed that my grandson's box would *not* have got auto 7.3
I hope that's clear :-)
An update before anyone feels an urge to offer advice. After
'echo 7x > /etc/yum/vars/slreleasever' , as suggested in the Release
Notes, I'm seeing the expected repos again. I've disabled auto updates
for now.
The other box runs the kde-live DVD with no problem but I couldn't see
an obvious recovery route - so will try installing from that on a second
disk. IIUC shrinking the xfs partition isn't a (reasonable) option.
John
