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RPM completely hosed during CentOS upgrade from 4.4 to 5
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Install of CentOS-5 kept ejecting CD saying something like, no CD was found with CentOS install files. So I figured I'd install an older version and upgrade. Since I've never done an upgrade with this distro in this way I used the upgrade "not recommended" on the CentOS.org website.
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/MigrationGuide/ServerCD_4.4_to_5
There were some version differneces between what was on the migration guid and the actual RPM index, but they were all minor so I figured that it was ok to use the later ones in the current index. found here:
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/
When I got to the section to "Remove deps/outdated packages", running the rpm command gave me this:
rpm: error while loading shared libraries: libnss3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Now anything using rpm give errors including yum and I'm to top it off I'm remote and to go reinstall is not impossible but fairly difficult as I am a couple hours away.
I'm currently attempting to reinstall rpm and just discovered that there is no compiler installed (search for cc and gcc).
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!!!
Install of CentOS-5 kept ejecting CD saying something like, no CD was found with CentOS install files. So I figured I'd install an older version and upgrade. Since I've never done an upgrade with this distro in this way I used the upgrade "not recommended" on the CentOS.org website.
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/MigrationGuide/ServerCD_4.4_to_5
There were some version differneces between what was on the migration guid and the actual RPM index, but they were all minor so I figured that it was ok to use the later ones in the current index. found here:
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/
When I got to the section to "Remove deps/outdated packages", running the rpm command gave me this:
rpm: error while loading shared libraries: libnss3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Now anything using rpm give errors including yum and I'm to top it off I'm remote and to go reinstall is not impossible but fairly difficult as I am a couple hours away.
I'm currently attempting to reinstall rpm and just discovered that there is no compiler installed (search for cc and gcc).
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!!!
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I thought so too... I've tried the following list:
CentOS-5.3-i386-LiveCD.iso
CentOS-5.3-i386-netinstall
CentOS-5.3-i386-bin-DVD.to
Then I tried Debian Etch and that installed no problem, but the most of the software I want to install is not supported for Debian.
So, after that I tried CentOS 4.4. Installed without any trouble.
Thanks for the response though! It seems this is a pretty tough question. I haven't gotten much response on other forums either.
CentOS-5.3-i386-LiveCD.iso
CentOS-5.3-i386-netinstall
CentOS-5.3-i386-bin-DVD.to
Then I tried Debian Etch and that installed no problem, but the most of the software I want to install is not supported for Debian.
So, after that I tried CentOS 4.4. Installed without any trouble.
Thanks for the response though! It seems this is a pretty tough question. I haven't gotten much response on other forums either.
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Just for kicks, please describe your hardware being used. It quite possibly could be something isn't compatible with the latest version of CentOS, thus causing the problems.
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Thank you very much for the guidance!
I don't have another comparable CentOS machine with access to that network. So, copying may be difficult. Is there a way I can do that from the disk? Even if I could just restore rpm I believe I can correct the repo's, kernal, etc.
It looks like I can do that with the CPIO instructions. I will give those a try.
Not sure about the Server hardware off hand Because I inherited it. Though it had a RAM problem then, so i'm 99% sure on is the motherboard - Intel s3000ah. Any tool you can suggest to tell me what's on it? All I know is "lspci".
I don't have another comparable CentOS machine with access to that network. So, copying may be difficult. Is there a way I can do that from the disk? Even if I could just restore rpm I believe I can correct the repo's, kernal, etc.
It looks like I can do that with the CPIO instructions. I will give those a try.
Not sure about the Server hardware off hand Because I inherited it. Though it had a RAM problem then, so i'm 99% sure on is the motherboard - Intel s3000ah. Any tool you can suggest to tell me what's on it? All I know is "lspci".
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It took a while to get it done, but after a couple of tries and thanks to the expert help, I was able to get it back to to a minimal OS and back to normal from there.
Thanks again for all your help!!
Thanks again for all your help!!
I recommend downloading a new CentOS ISO. Another option would be to download the CentOS NetBoot ISO, burning it to a CD then using the Internet for downloading/installing CentOS in real-time from one of the CentOS image repositories.
CentOS NetInstall 5.3
http://www.chrisgountanis.com/technical/45-centos-netinstall.html