failure of anaconda upgrade to SL 6.4 X86-64 [2]

2013-04-09 Thread Yasha Karant
I have found anaconda command line options on URL https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda_Boot_Options?rd=Anaconda/Options and anaconda is available as a package that SL6 will install. I have not found how to manually invoke anaconda from a running system to use the files on the

Re: Repos down?

2013-04-09 Thread Steven Haigh
On 09/04/13 16:48, Pablo Fernandez wrote: Hi, This is probably not the right place, but not sure where to do this... All the SL5 repositories (ftp.scientificlinux.org, ftp1 and ftp2) are down. Am I missing any maintenance or anything? Yes, it looks like the servers seem to be down. Quite

Re:

2013-04-09 Thread Gilberto Ficara
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/04/2013 11:01, David Sommerseth wrote: On 09/04/13 10:48, Steven Haigh wrote: On 09/04/13 18:29, vivek chalotra wrote: Hello all, One of my friend has deleted all the data in /home by mistake using rm -rf command. She actually used $ rm

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Repos down?

2013-04-09 Thread Pat Riehecky
On 04/09/2013 02:27 AM, Steven Haigh wrote: On 09/04/13 16:48, Pablo Fernandez wrote: Hi, This is probably not the right place, but not sure where to do this... All the SL5 repositories (ftp.scientificlinux.org, ftp1 and ftp2) are down. Am I missing any maintenance or anything? Yes, it looks

Experiencing a temporary outage of the main scientificlinux.org distribution servers

2013-04-09 Thread Pat Riehecky
The following systems are currently effected: * rsync.scientificlinux.org * ftp.scientificlinux.org * ftp1.scientificlinux.org * ftp2.scientificlinux.org A precise investigation is under way. This outage was not planned. -- Pat Riehecky Scientific Linux developer

Resolved temporary outage of the main scientificlinux.org distribution servers

2013-04-09 Thread Pat Riehecky
The following systems should be functioning as expected: * rsync.scientificlinux.org * ftp.scientificlinux.org * ftp1.scientificlinux.org * ftp2.scientificlinux.org This unplanned outage covered: April 9 2013 01:40 - 10:45 CDT -- Pat Riehecky Scientific Linux developer

anaconda SL 6.4 upgrade solved

2013-04-09 Thread Yasha Karant
Based on observations of the failure mode of anaconda for an in-place upgrade to 6.4, I used a heuristic method and solved the problem. I made a backup copy of /etc/fstab, and then edited fstab to remove all references to any physical hard drive (e.g., sdb, sdc) that did not contain the