Hi John,
I do appreciate all the detail, and hopefully I have the right answer, but it's
possible I don't.
I have seen this error
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Box titled "Error running transaction"
with commentary
"There was an error running your transaction, for the following reasons:"
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when there is a yum conflict that doesn't initially show up with the yum check.
Anyway, we know that on SL 5.0 if you select R-devel, it's going to fail with a
blank reason. Did you select R and R-devel?
Troy
John Logsdon wrote:
> I have a problem.
>
> Scenario:
>
> I have a CentOS4.4 box that I want to upgrade to SL5.0. So I tried some
> procedures on another box.
>
> I should say that I have successfully installed SL5 on yet another box with no
> glitches so I don't think it is the CD. In addition while I only had the
> CentOS 4.0 disks to hand, since yum update immediately moves a box to 4.5 I
> don't think this is an issue either.
>
> I have tried (a) upgrading the CentOS box to start with to CentOS4.5 then went
> through anaconda to try to upgrade:
>
> 1) yum update (to 4.5 - yum does this automatically)
> 2) copy down the rpm-conf from SL site for 4x-5 (are these two steps
> necessary?)
> 3) Reboot (are these two steps necessary?)
> 4) rpm –force -Uvh this .rpm file
> 5) remove the CentOS repos files from the yum.repos.d directory
> 6) yum upgrade
> 7) Splash screens are CentOS, login screens are SL, KDE CentOS NW, CentOS 4.5
> 8) Use anaconda to upgrade the installation to SL5.0 - the partitions were not
> reformatted.
> 9) Most of the CDs seem to be read very quickly except the last.
> 10) A missing file is reported on reboot!
>
> Maybe this is because of the rpm --force so I tried to do yum upgrade CentOS
> 4.0 to SL4.x first a bit more carefully:
>
> 1) Reinstall CentOS4.0 and try to upgrade to SL 4.x first.
> 2) Copied down yum and yum-conf from 4.2-3 from SL site and moved to /home/jl
> 3) Move /etc/yum* /home/jl/old.yum/
> 4) Installed new version of yum-conf – now points to SL
> 5) yum update rpm
> 6) yum update yum
> 7) comment out any cron.daily yum update
> 8) yum update
> 9)Splash screens are CentOS, login screens are SL, KDE RedHat NW, CentOS 4.0
> 10)Try an anaconda update
> 11)linux upgradeany and select upgrade installation and update bootloader - ie
> the partitions were not reformatted.
> 12)Failed on disk 2 – no reason displayed
> 13)reboot and shows SL5 (Boron) but X-server not set up – missing file stuff
> again
>
> So I gave up and tried a new install, reformatting all but /home and /data.
>
> CD #1 installed with no glitches but it choked on CD2 - and this has happened
> twice now, the first time after it couldn't find the security repos so I did
> it without asking.
>
> On CD #2:
>
> Box titled "Error running transaction"
> with commentary
> "There was an error running your transaction, for the following reasons:"
> but nothing is added.
> There is a red no-entry blob and only "Reboot" is offered for action and below
> the progress bar is the text:
> "Installing Deployment_Guide-en-US-5.0.0.21.noarch (9MB)
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 - Beta"
>
>
> Ctl-Alt-F1: "Starting graphical installation..."
>
> as you would expect.
>
> Alt-F2: sh-3.1#
>
> obviously a shell that I can type on
>
> Alt-F3:
>
> Last 4 lines are (plus time and INFO prefix):
>
> Preparing to install packages
> switchinng from CD [1] to 1 for ('slrn', 'i386', '0', '0.9.8.1pl1', '1.2.2')
> Initial install time estimate = 28.7864289153
> switching from CD [1] to 2 for ('nedit', 'i386',' '0', '5.5', '10.el5')
>
> Alt-F4:
>
> Last 5 lines are (previous 5 also the same)
>
> <7>ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
> <4>Unable to load NLS charset itf8
> <4>Unable to load NLS charset itf8
> <7>ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
> <6>SELinux: initialized (dev hdc, type iso9660), uses genfs_contexts
>
> Alt-F5:
>
> Last 3 lines are:
>
> tune2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
> Setting maximal mount count to -1
> Setting interval between checks to 0 seconds
>
> Alt-F6 of course returns to the installation screen showing the red
> blob...:-(((
>
> Can anyone recall such a problem? Or direct me to a solution?
>
> I have installed on this machine a number of times recently (although it has
> been running RH8 for ages - it is a Dell PE600SC) and with the CDs too.
>
> TIA
>
> John
>
> John Logsdon "Try to make things as simple
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