Topic: Moving hard drives from older server into newer PC

[janet]

calisun

Just googling for your error
from here
https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=19286

try
yum install perl
signal-event post-upgrade
signal-event reboot

after that maybe to play safe you should do
yum update
followed by
signal-event post-upgrade
signal-event reboot

[calisun]

Thanks Janet,
But since my server died and I have drives in a substitute computer, I can't connect to internet because I can't get into admin console to setup network cards.

I was looking into downloading and installing from RPM
I found following perl RMP distros for CentOS

(CentOS 5.11 for x86_64)  -  perl-5.8.8-42.el5.x86_64.rpm
(Extras packages for CentOS 5.11 for x86_64)   -  perl-5.8.8-41.el5.i386.rpm

My question is, since SME 8.1 is based on CentOS 5.10, will the packages above work since they are for CentOS 5.11?

[Stefano]

ok..

1) download last SME8.2 rc2 iso, for example from http://mirror.pialasse.com/releases/testing/8.2.rc2/iso/
be sure you download the right one (i386 or x86_64)

2) if you can, burn it, insert the cd into the cd tray than, from console:

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cd /mnt/
mkdir tmpdir
mount /dev/cdrom ./tmpdir

3) move to Packages dir

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cd /mnt/tmpdir/Packages

4) install perl

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rpm -Uvh perl*

this will install all perl rpms

reboot and try again

WARNING not tested, should work

[calisun]

Thanks Stefano,
just a quick question while ISO is downloading.
You don't recommend I do an upgrade to 8.2 rc2? Just wondering if that would fix it?

[Stefano]

you just need to reinstall perl.. don't boot and don't do any upgrade

BTW, the above command (rpm -UVH perl*) will fail if you have any perl package already installed..
in the first instance, just do:

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rpm -Uvh perl-5 [tab to autocomplete]