Topic: I've hosed my server - help!

[the_mad_prof]

Hi, i installed the necessary rpm's (with nodeps - I know, I know) courtesy of adrian chung to enable mp3 support in apache and the server manager.  Now only samba seems to work, I can't access the server-manager or even ssh in with putty.  If it helps I have an error saying irqbalance has failed.

Help chaps!

J.

[duncan]

Can you remove the installed packages.

[the_mad_prof]

Nope, oddly my box tells me they aren't installed.  I've tried an upgrade but that didn't seem to work.  

The modules were;

MP3Info-0.90-1.noarch.rpm
ApacheMP3-2.15-1.noarch.rpm
e-smith-ApacheMP3-1.1.0-07.noarch.rpm
mod_perl-devel-1.99_16-4.centos4.i386.rpm
httpd-devel-2.0.52-22.ent.centos4.i386.rpm
apr-devel-0.9.4-24.5.c4.1.i386.rpm
apr-util-devel-0.9.4-21.i386.rpm
pcre-devel-4.5-3.2.RHEL4.i386.rpm

Some of them were a few of the (many) dependencies of the first three.  

I feel such a twit!

[cactus]

Hi, i installed the necessary rpm's (with nodeps - I know, I know) courtesy of adrian chung to enable mp3 support in apache and the server manager.  Now only samba seems to work, I can't access the server-manager or even ssh in with putty.  If it helps I have an error saying irqbalance has failed.

Help chaps!

J.

Next time you should use "yum lcoalinstall" instead of "rpm". Yum will try to resolve the dependencies it self and if neccessarry donwload them from the configured repositories (here is a list of repositories for SME Server).

Nope, oddly my box tells me they aren't installed. I've tried an upgrade but that didn't seem to work.

Do you only get errors that the RPM's are not installed or does it say something else as well? Remeber that you don't need to enter version numbers when you try to install the rpms, so uninstalling would read something like this:

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rpm -e MP3Info ApacheMP3 e-smith-ApacheMP3 mod_perl-devel httpd-devel apr-devel apr-util-devel pcre-devel

If that also fails please let me know I might have another option to manually remove every file but I think the above should work.

[the_mad_prof]

Didn't know the YUM thing - sounds good to me, will def use in future.  Will try to remove the rpm's again and reinstall them with YUM.  

Fingers crossed!

[raem]

the_mad_prof

What is the exact command you are using to remove the rpm(s) ?

[jumba]

A very common mistake is that a user who wants to remove MP3Info-0.90-1.noarch.rpm tries with a:

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rpm -e MP3Info-0.90-1.noarch.rpm

The correct command would be:

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rpm -e MP3Info-0.90-1

In some rare cases, the registered name in the RPM database differs from the filename.

In that case, do a search with:

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rpm -qa | grep [name/part of name you're looking for]

...Just an idea!

[cactus]

Didn't know the YUM thing - sounds good to me, will def use in future.  Will try to remove the rpm's again and reinstall them with YUM.  

Fingers crossed!

I don't think it is of much use to cross your fingers. The architecture of the internal configuration database differs between version 6 and 7. therefore most RPM's made for SME6 will not work out of the box for SME7, using yum won't make this different. Sorry!

[the_mad_prof]

Hi, haven't had a chance to try this out yet, thanks for the positive responses.

I tried the mp3 contrib from a link in the SME 7 forum.  

It isn't a mission critical server or contains data I can't recover from a backup but it's set up quite well so would rather fix than flatten and start from scratch, not to mention the fact it is in the eaves of the house (now where's my torch).

[the_mad_prof]

Thanks for the help chaps, however..... hasn't worked so I'll just format and reinstall.