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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 5 May 2004 14:35:53 -0500
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Hi David,
Thanks for getting this info to us.

David Kinnvall wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Having installed RC1 and upgraded to RC2 through yum, I noticed
> that two small buglets seem to be present in the yum-conf rpm:
>
> - The installed /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron has incorrect settings
>  for the path (going against sl301/... instead of the updated
>  hierarchy with scientific/...). The examples in /etc/yum.d
>  have the correct settings for this, though.
>
> - All (as in /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron and the ones in /etc/yum.d)
>  of them call yum with 'check-updates' but should instead use
>  'check-update' since it fails with the former.
>

Fixed.  Will be in next update

>
> Installing the serialconsole rpm fails when attempting to
> update grub.conf, at least on my installation, with this:
>
> --- snip ---
> Starting serial console configuration
> ...
>   Editing console line(s) in /boot/grub/grub.conf
> grubby: kernel not found
>    Working on kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-9.0.3.EL
>     OldAppend=
>     Added console=ttyS0,9600
> grubby: kernel not found
>     NewAppend=
> serial console configuration finished
> --- snip ---
>
> and no change is made to the kernel (append) part of grub.conf.
> The other parts work correctly, however (inittab, et al).
>

Working on it.

>
> Apart from the above both my installations work perfectly so
> far, on two Dell machines (PowerEdge 700 and 750), surviving
> both manual abuse and automated nightly dito via cerberus,
> which is very encouraging!
>
> Best regards,
>
> David Kinnvall
> Alert IR

Also fixed, and will be in the next update is the lilo graphical message. It
had magically balloned to over 10 times it's size since hepl, making it not work.

Thanks again
Troy

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