Re: [CentOS] how to move forward/undo/revert/fix re: a failed CentOS 5.5 to SL 5.5 migration ... [SOLVED?]

2011-02-02 Thread Lorenzo Quatrini
Larry Vaden ha scritto: AFAIK, that's the status of the clones at this time. Still unexplained is why 'host www.yahoo.com 208.67.220.220' and 'host www.yahoo.com 8.8.8.8' got completely different answers. For what I know OpenDNS (208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220) does some more caching and

Re: [CentOS] how to move forward/undo/revert/fix re: a failed CentOS 5.5 to SL 5.5 migration ... [SOLVED?]

2011-02-02 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:04 AM, Lorenzo Quatrini lorenzo.quatr...@gmail.com wrote: Larry Vaden ha scritto: AFAIK, that's the status of the clones at this time.  Still unexplained is why 'host www.yahoo.com 208.67.220.220' and 'host www.yahoo.com 8.8.8.8' got completely different answers.

Re: [CentOS] how to move forward/undo/revert/fix re: a failed CentOS 5.5 to SL 5.5 migration ... [SOLVED?]

2011-02-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, February 02, 2011 09:31:43 am Larry Vaden wrote: * The host/dig/nslookup utilities queried only servers from resolv.conf. With this update, the utilities query the servers specified on command line instead of in resolv.conf and the issue is resolved. ( BZ#561299) The official

Re: [CentOS] how to move forward/undo/revert/fix re: a failed CentOS 5.5 to SL 5.5 migration ... [SOLVED?]

2011-02-02 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: On Wednesday, February 02, 2011 09:31:43 am Larry Vaden wrote: * The host/dig/nslookup utilities queried only servers from resolv.conf. With this update, the utilities query the servers specified on command line instead of in

Re: [CentOS] how to move forward/undo/revert/fix re: a failed CentOS 5.5 to SL 5.5 migration ... [SOLVED?]

2011-02-01 Thread Phil Schaffner
Larry Vaden wrote on 01/30/2011 08:41 PM: ... With apologies for replying to my own post, the final solution (possibly regarded as draconian and puerile by others) which seemed to work to return to a consistent state was to download Oracle R5U6 and invoke 'rpm -ivh' following some rpm which

Re: [CentOS] how to move forward/undo/revert/fix re: a failed CentOS 5.5 to SL 5.5 migration ... [SOLVED?]

2011-02-01 Thread Larry Vaden
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Phil Schaffner philip.r.schaff...@nasa.gov wrote: So, out of morbid curiosity, and because it seems to have been my post on the SL list you quoted that helped get you into this state, was anything other than the replacement process actually broken? Actually, it

Re: [CentOS] how to move forward/undo/revert/fix re: a failed CentOS 5.5 to SL 5.5 migration ... [SOLVED?]

2011-01-30 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Larry Vaden va...@texoma.net wrote: For various reasons which seemingly fail the necessary/sufficient tests with the benefit of hindsight, I attempted to migrate a shell machine which is the beach front from which I work (not a production server) from CentOS