[SOLVED] update centos

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[SOLVED] update centos

Post by sayres » 2011/08/04 22:37:30

Almost two weeks ago I installed centos 6.
After I installed the update.
Now it's time to get any updates?
I update every time I'm faced with this message:

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[sudo] password for sayres:
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities, refresh-packagekit
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror.mserverz.de
* elrepo: elrepo.org
* epel: mirror.xfes.ru
* extras: mirror.mserverz.de
* rpmforge: apt.sw.be
* updates: mirror.mserverz.de
8076 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
Setting up Update Process
No Packages marked for Update

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I have not updated it this time?
centos 6 has many problems.
After a while, my firefox crashes whenever I'm working Joomla!I have to close firefox.
Or always Xulrunner crash message appears.

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Re: update centos

Post by gasolin » 2011/08/04 23:25:38

verry stabel on my laptoop more stable then mint 11, managed to update 1 time (the first after installing centos 6 64bit), no i seems verry difficult to update

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Re: update centos

Post by sayres » 2011/08/05 08:08:21

I still centos6 not yet reached an acceptable stability.
Now after you install the software automatic Bug reporting tool
Can you see the crash of centos 6.

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[SOLVED] update centos

Post by pschaff » 2011/08/05 13:50:39

This is why many people do not install X.0 releases. I don't know if 6.0 will get any more updates as 6.1 is in the pipeline, but there may be a 6.0 Continuous Release (CR) repo. See the interminable threads on centos-devel for more:

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2011-May/007649.html
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2011-July/007927.html

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Re: update centos

Post by sayres » 2011/08/05 21:05:57

However, I want to install centos 5,6.
I know very little bug ..

What is your idea?
When these problems get resolved centos6?

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Re: update centos

Post by pschaff » 2011/08/06 14:01:23

[quote]
sayres wrote:
However, I want to install centos 5,6.
I know very little bug ..[/quote]
Sorry, I am missing your point. You want to install CentOS-5 and CentOS-6, or 5.6? Sometimes people hit "," rather than "." and the lack of a space adds to the ambiguity.

Are you referring to a specific bug or to your lack of general knowledge about how to deal with existing bugs?

[quote]
What is your idea?
When these problems get resolved centos6?[/quote]
It is impossible to say, but it seems more attention is currently going to 5.6 [CR] (Continuous Release repo) and 5.7 than to 6.1. There may be 6.0 [CR] - TBD.

Meanwhile, there is [url=http://www.scientificlinux.org/download/]SL-6.1[/url] if you can't wait for CentOS. They (Scientific Linux) seem to be pursuing the opposite strategy - getting 6.x releases out before 5.x, but meanwhile providing updates built for the previous minor releases - similar to the pending [CR] repos.

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Re: update centos

Post by sayres » 2011/08/07 12:24:25

(Scientific Linux) the same as is centos?
Centos 6.1 when it is released?
How is the publication schedule?

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Re: update centos

Post by pschaff » 2011/08/07 12:36:43

[quote]
sayres wrote:
(Scientific Linux) the same as is centos?[/quote]
It is built from the same upstream sources, but tends to be less picky about being as close as possible to 100% bug-for-bug compatible with upstream than does CentOS. They also include additional packages in the base distro that are not in the upstream or CentOS releases. For most purposes they can be considered equivalent.

[quote]
Centos 6.1 when it is released?
How is the publication schedule?[/quote]
All I can say is when it is ready. There is no published schedule, and [url=http://qaweb.dev.centos.org/qa/dashboard]QAweb[/url] seems to be a bit neglected currently.

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Re: update centos

Post by sayres » 2011/08/07 13:12:11

other crash :

Package: metacity-2.28.0-20.el6
Latest Crash: Sun 07 Aug 2011 02:47:55 PM
Command: metacity
Reason: Process /usr/bin/metacity was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
Comment: None
Bug Reports:



Package: xulrunner-1.9.2.9-1.el6.centos
Latest Crash: Mon 08 Aug 2011 10:12:47 PM
Command: /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.2/plugin-container /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so 20255 plugin
Reason: Process /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.2/plugin-container was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
Comment: None
Bug Reports: The report was appended to /var/log/abrt.log

and
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Re: update centos

Post by pschaff » 2011/08/07 13:41:33

It seems likely that you have bad RAM. I'd suggest running memtest86+ at least overnight - 24 hours or longer is better.

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