Fedora server consuming all memory and grinding to a halt

2009-11-15 Thread Langdon Stevenson
Hi, I have three Fedora server (two are F8, one is F6) that have all been running (literally) for years. They are all in different locations/networks but for an unknown reason all of them have used up all of their ram and stopped responding to ssh, ping etc. This happened at different times to e

Re: F-9 rescue disk?

2009-03-22 Thread Langdon Stevenson
Bob Goodwin wrote: Yes, I've been typing a lot of things on the keyboard but obviously not the right things. The computer shows that /dev/sda and sdb are there but I can't mount them because it doesn't see my original /etc/fstab apparently? Well even then I don't know how to address those dr

Re: Fedora 8 system won't upgrade to Fedora 10

2009-03-20 Thread Langdon Stevenson
Frank Cox wrote: On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:21:39 +1100 Langdon Stevenson wrote: Can anyone suggest how to troubleshoot this issue? Have you considered using preupgrade instead of trying to upgrade from a disk? Thanks for the reply Frank. I tried preupgrade on another F8 system recently and

Re: Fedora 8 system won't upgrade to Fedora 10

2009-03-20 Thread Langdon Stevenson
Frank Cox wrote: On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:21:39 +1100 Langdon Stevenson wrote: Can anyone suggest how to troubleshoot this issue? Have you considered using preupgrade instead of trying to upgrade from a disk? Thanks for the reply Frank. I tried preupgrade on another F8 system recently and

Fedora 8 system won't upgrade to Fedora 10

2009-03-19 Thread Langdon Stevenson
I have a Fedora 8 server that I want to upgrade to Fedora 10. I recently did this same task with a workstation and had no problem upgrading from 8 to 10 using a DVD. Just ran the installer, it detected the F8 install (on logical volumes over RAID 5) and did the upgrade. The server is an old

[Resolved] Re: Boot problem on F8 system

2009-03-14 Thread Langdon Stevenson
Langdon Stevenson wrote: I have a Fedora 8 server that I recently ran pre-upgrade on in preparation to moving to Fedora 10. After pre-upgrade ran the server was rebooted and will not start. The symptoms are as follows: Server boots and detects all disks (it has 6 scsi disks running software

Boot problem on F8 system

2009-03-14 Thread Langdon Stevenson
I have a Fedora 8 server that I recently ran pre-upgrade on in preparation to moving to Fedora 10. After pre-upgrade ran the server was rebooted and will not start. The symptoms are as follows: Server boots and detects all disks (it has 6 scsi disks running software raid). Boot up continue

Re: Fedora 8 upgrade to 9 missing dependency problem [Resolved]

2009-02-23 Thread Langdon Stevenson
Kevin Kofler wrote: Langdon Stevenson wrote: Can you see anything wrong with what I have here? Is there any specific info that I can provide which would help? Try: su -c "yum clean metadata" and if that doesn't help: su -c "yum clean all" Hi Kevin, thanks for th

Re: Fedora 8 upgrade to 9 missing dependency problem

2009-02-21 Thread Langdon Stevenson
Kevin Kofler wrote: Langdon Stevenson wrote: Can anyone suggest how I can troubleshoot this and resolve the issue? I have found a few people had similar issues, but saw no solution suggested. You need to include the F9 updates-newkey repo. Also make sure you're using the "Everyt

Fedora 8 upgrade to 9 missing dependency problem

2009-02-20 Thread Langdon Stevenson
I decided it was time to bite the bullet and upgrade my workstation to Fedora 9 from 8. I followed these instructions to upgrade using Yum: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq However when I ran the command: yum upgrade I got a very long slew of "Missing Dependency" errors (see b

Re: OT - php toolkit/framework

2008-09-23 Thread Langdon Stevenson
Bazooka Joe wrote: I need to do a pro bono inventory control web ap. I am an experienced php/mysql programmer but I am dreading making all the input forms and reports that will be needed. Did some googling but many toolkits seem out of date. What would you recommend for a rapid development toolk

Re: ltsp and f9

2008-06-10 Thread Langdon Stevenson
Frank Cox wrote: It's my understanding that LTSP5 has now been incorporated into F9. Has anyone tried it out? How does it compare to LTSP 4.2 and F8? What else has to change when updating a currently-working LTSP 4.2/F8 server to F9? I would be interested to know too. I am about to upgrade