Re: Upgrade from RH 6.2 to 8.0 Goes a Bit Astray

From: W. Watson (wolf_tracks_at_invalid.inv)
Date: 12/15/03

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    Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 19:10:43 GMT

    The LIL- instead of LILO prompt from the HD boot attempt is a puzzler. I suspect some
    file got crunched.

    The log files had some info in them. I'm not sure how to interpret them but the most
    glaring msg was

       linuxconf: /bin/netconf: error while loading libgd.so.1 -no such file.

    I'm not sure what that's about, the boot from the floppy did succeed. Maybe I can
    find that on the install disk, but I don't have plans to use the network at this
    time, so I can probably ignore it.

    Also found
       IO Error in XOpenDisplay
    that is certainly serious but at this point I'm not sure of the cause. That I'm sure
    is a cause of the Windows version not coming up. It may be the cause of the INIT msg.

    Found
        pci-module init failed.
    A mystery to me at the moment.

    And lastly, found
        kudzu: failed in one or two places (I.e., different boot attempts)
    Some hw config attempt failed, but not sure what.

    Noi wrote:
    > On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:55:42 +0000, W. Watson thoughtfully wrote:
    >
    >
    >>After the upgrade, I tried booting but it failed with LIL- (not LILO)
    >>prompt. It hung there, so I put in my boot floppy and ended up having to
    >>login as root via text prompts rather than in graphics mode. When I did
    >>login, I got these messages among others:
    >>
    >>Kernel 2.14-18, i586
    >>
    >>INIT id 'x': respawning too fast. disabling for 5 minutes."
    >>
    >>The last msg reappeared several times and I went off to bed. In the
    >>morning the screen was filled with the message, so I rebooted. Again I had
    >>to use a text prompt to reboot, but no longer got the INIT msg above. On
    >>the way to the login prompt, the usual torrent of Linux msgs. I did see a
    >>few that indicated FAILED and one that warned me of removing something in
    >>etc/ ... as soon as possible. I could not record this material, since the
    >>screen was moving a little too fast. I tried pause but that didn't work.
    >>Any other way of slowing or stopping this scrolling so that it can be
    >>comfortably read?
    >>
    >>That i586 above troubles me a little. I have a three year old machine, and
    >>thought the architecture for Linux was built around 386. I guess whatever
    >>I have is considered i586 but I don't recall any i586 in the RH 6.2 build.
    >
    >
    > I think i586 referred to P-II class processors. You can type "less
    > /var/log/messages", dmesg and "less /var/log/boot" to see the error
    > messages from you boot process. Type "q" to exit from less command. You
    > might need root or sudo access to see the logs, ie, sudo less
    > /var/log/messages.
    >
    > Try the upgrade process again after you review the /var/log/message file. 

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