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Obsolete Releases => SME Server 7.x => Topic started by: piedie on November 20, 2007, 03:00:21 PM
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Hi there!
My usb-printer doesnt work, wheter I try cups or LPRng. And my USB-stick don't work. (At least it is not recognized in Contrib USB Disks). So I am thinking that my USB is not working (anymore).
What way would there be to check this? BIOS settings are correct, and I do have +5V on the connectors. 'Mount' gives me this: usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) (I do not know if it has nothing to with it, just found it).
In /media/ there is only one folder: cdrecorder. Nothing else.
Any idea how to check/fix this? Thank you!
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When I typed yum info installed *usb* I see that usbutils is installed, and also libusb.
I got the feeling that at least usbutils do not have anything to do with SME (d/l by accident from wrong server I guess). Could this be the problem? What way to remove this? When I tried yum remove usbutils, i got a LOT of dependencies, so I skipped uninstalling it, not wanting to break anything. Help would be greatly appreciated!
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Hi Piedie,
I also have the usbutils and the usbdiskmanager installed (can't remember if usbutils was there standard or is installed as part of the usbdiskmanager server manager panel) but all is working fine here with those installed.
I tend to plug in the usb key and then dmesg at the console to get an indication of the response of sme to the device - ie was it seen, where the device has been seen, etc and this may be useful to you for fault finding
ie: plug in USB key, open console (putty or at server)
dmesg
gives me:
usb 1-6: new high speed USB device using address 2
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: General Model: USB Flash Disk Rev: 0.00
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sdc: 1967616 512-byte hdwr sectors (1007 MB)
sdc: Write Protect is off
sdc: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdc: 1967616 512-byte hdwr sectors (1007 MB)
sdc: Write Protect is off
sdc: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
sdc: sdc1
Attached scsi removable disk sdc at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
USB Mass Storage device found at 2
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
So my device is recognised as sdc1.
Then i would make the mount point (if not already made)
mkdir /mnt/usb
yours could be mounted to /media/usb or even an ibay if you want.
to mount this then:
mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/usb
Hope this helps. I note when plugged in the Add option becomes available in the server manager panel - and that the reference to the usb key doesn't remove itself when the device is unplugged.
Cheers, Shell
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Well, I do not get that. When dmesg i got about 8 pages of info, these were the lines with the word usb in them.
But no sign of a working usb-port yet.
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
HUB0 XVRA XVRB XVRC USB0 USB2 AZAD MMAC MMCI UAR1 PS2K
ohci_hcd: 2004 Feb 02 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
ohci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
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Okay, I got stupid (again). But I guess that that is how we learn is it not? But I really could use some good advice now!
Looking at this USB situation again, I was looking through the Software Installer in the Server Manager, checking out my installed packages. I then saw usbutils RHEL etcetera, and I thought that it didn't belong to SME Server. (I heard the stories about non SME software on the servers, and that that was bad.) So because of that, I removed it by clicking on the Remove-button.
Now nothing works anymore!!!
- Server does not boot, the screen is really * up, as if I am looking to a snowstorm. Through the snow I can read something about a panicking kernel.
- Manager, users and web doesn't work anymore. Well, nothing works anymore.
What is this? And what is the best way to fix it?
And why does this keep happening to me (http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=37652.0)? How can uninstalling one piece of software screw up an entire system? That is so strange and dangerous for n00b users....
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I am now downloading the smeserver-7.2-i386.iso to maybe try an upgrade to fix the system, but keep the files and users. Good idea?
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It is unbelievable: over 50 rpms were deleted. I'll post a list later. I am trying to reinstall them now, but the repositories in yum don't seem to work. I am trying to install rpms from cdrom now. I did an upgrade by the way, and files etc. are still present.
I renamed .rpmsave to their original names. Lots of stuff works now. Fileserver works, the name is now also correct. I cannot acces server manager or any ibay-website yet. (Server is in server-only mode) E-mail however works when i connect using emailsoftware like thunderbird.
I seem to miss some rpms, is there an easy way to find out?
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Yes - "upgrading" using the SME 7.2 iso will hopefully allow you to recover your system.
As of SME 7.1.1 some portions of your SME server will install or update directly from the Centos repositories, so you will definitely have some non-SME rpms. The problems that people ran into between 7.1 and 7.1.3 occurred if they accidentally obtained a new kernel from the CentOS repositories rather than from the SME repo due to having yum configured to include the CentOS repos without being configured to exclude kernel updates from those same repos.
'yum' maintains dependency information for all packages - and removing software with yum or with the software installer will then remove all dependencies. Below is a partial list of the output from manually running yum remove usbutils at the command line; my assumption is that all of these packages are not required for usbutils to work, but in each instance the version listed is required for the package itself to work correctly with usbutils.e-smith-dynamicdns-tzo noarch 1.4.0-3.el4.sme installed 18 k
e-smith-dynamicdns-yi noarch 1.4.0-3.el4.sme installed 18 k
e-smith-email noarch 4.16.0-22.el4.sme installed 214 k
e-smith-flexbackup noarch 1.10.0-3.el4.sme installed 31 k
e-smith-formmagick noarch 1.4.0-5.el4.sme installed 112 k
e-smith-grub noarch 1.0.0-6.el4.sme installed 80 k
e-smith-horde noarch 1.13.0-21.el4.sme installed 86 k
e-smith-hosts noarch 1.14.0-10.el4.sme installed 72 k
e-smith-ibays noarch 1.2.0-5.el4.sme installed 69 k
e-smith-imap noarch 1.4.0-9.el4.sme installed 22 k
e-smith-imp noarch 1.13.0-10.el4.sme installed 64 k
e-smith-ingo noarch 1.1-6.el4.sme installed 31 k
e-smith-ldap noarch 4.12.0-7.el4.sme installed 46 k
e-smith-lib noarch 1.18.0-18.el4.sme installed 309 k
e-smith-lib-compspec noarch 1.0.0-2.el4.sme installed 2.7 k
e-smith-manager noarch 1.14.0-8.el4.sme installed 94 k
e-smith-mysql noarch 1.12.0-14.el4.sme installed 29 k
e-smith-netatalk noarch 1.14.0-6.el4.sme installed 23 k
e-smith-ntp noarch 1.16.0-12.el4.sme installed 57 k
e-smith-nutUPS noarch 1.2.0-15.el4.sme installed 2.5 k
e-smith-oidentd noarch 1.2.0-3.el4.sme installed 20 k
e-smith-openssh noarch 1.12.0-10.el4.sme installed 34 k
e-smith-packetfilter noarch 1.18.0-6.el4.sme installed 46 k
e-smith-php noarch 1.12.0-4.el4.sme installed 24 k
e-smith-pop3 noarch 1.2.0-3.el4.sme installed 23 k
e-smith-portforwarding noarch 1.2.0-5.el4.sme installed 49 k
e-smith-pptpd noarch 1.12.0-10.el4.sme installed 28 k
e-smith-proftpd noarch 1.12.0-10.el4.sme installed 32 k
e-smith-proxy noarch 4.14.0-8.el4.sme installed 33 k
e-smith-qmail noarch 1.10.0-14.el4.sme installed 44 k
e-smith-qmailanalog noarch 1.12.0-2.el4.sme installed 27 k
e-smith-quota noarch 1.10.0-5.el4.sme installed 77 k
e-smith-radiusd noarch 1.0.0-16.el4.sme installed 67 k
e-smith-rpm noarch 1.3.2-06 installed 192 k
e-smith-samba noarch 1.14.0-33.el4.sme installed 61 k
e-smith-starterwebsite noarch 1.0.0-2.el4.sme installed 30 k
e-smith-test noarch 1.2.0-2.el4.sme installed 26 k
e-smith-tinydns noarch 1.0.0-7.el4.sme installed 40 k
e-smith-turba noarch 1.7.0-16.el4.sme installed 38 k
e-smith-viewlogfiles noarch 1.8.0-5.el4.sme installed 31 k
elinks i386 0.9.2-3.3.5.2 installed 2.0 M
fastforward i386 0.51-04.el4.sme installed 165 k
fetchmail i386 6.2.5-6.0.1.el4 installed 1.4 M
flexbackup noarch 1.2.1-1.el4.sme installed 254 k
freeradius i386 1.0.1-3.RHEL4.5 installed 3.8 M
gcc i386 3.4.6-8 installed 12 M
gd i386 2.0.28-5.4E installed 448 k
gettext i386 0.14.1-13 installed 3.1 M
ghostscript i386 7.07-33 installed 24 M
ghostscript-fonts noarch 5.50-13 installed 1.4 M
gifsicle i386 1.48-1.el4.rf installed 250 k
glibc-devel i386 2.3.4-2.36 installed 4.1 M
glibc-headers i386 2.3.4-2.36 installed 2.0 M
glibc-kernheaders i386 2.4-9.1.100.EL installed 2.1 M
gnupg i386 1.2.6-9 installed 4.1 M
grub i386 0.95-13sme01 installed 974 k
hal i386 0.4.2-6.EL4 installed 347 k
horde noarch 3.1.4-1.el4.sme installed 19 M
hotplug i386 3:2004_04_01-7.8 installed 157 k
httpd i386 2.0.52-32.3.ent.centos4 installed 2.3 M
httpd-suexec i386 2.0.52-32.3.ent.centos4 installed 11 k
imp-h3 noarch 4.1.4-1.el4.sme installed 14 M
ingo-h3 noarch 1.1.3-2.el4.sme installed 3.7 M
initscripts i386 7.93.29.EL-1.el4.sme installed 3.3 M
iptables i386 1.2.11-3.1.RHEL4 installed 370 k
isdn4k-utils i386 3.2-18.p1.1 installed 8.9 M
kbd i386 1.12-2.el4.4 installed 2.1 M
kernel i686 2.6.9-42.0.2.EL installed 27 M
kernel i686 2.6.9-22.0.2.EL installed 24 M
kernel i686 2.6.9-22.0.1.EL installed 24 M
kernel i686 2.6.9-34.0.2.EL installed 26 M
kernel i686 2.6.9-55.0.12.EL installed 28 M
kernel i686 2.6.9-34.0.1.EL installed 26 M
kernel i686 2.6.9-34.EL installed 26 M
kernel i686 2.6.9-11.EL installed 24 M
kernel i686 2.6.9-55.0.9.EL installed 28 M
kernel-smp i686 2.6.9-55.0.9.EL installed 29 M
kernel-smp i686 2.6.9-34.EL installed 28 M
kernel-smp i686 2.6.9-55.0.12.EL installed 29 M
kernel-smp i686 2.6.9-34.0.1.EL installed 28 M
kernel-smp i686 2.6.9-34.0.2.EL installed 28 M
kernel-smp i686 2.6.9-42.0.2.EL installed 29 M
kernel-utils i386 1:2.4-13.1.99 installed 1.5 M
kmod-appletalk i686 1.0-2.2.6.9_55.0.12.EL installed 527 k
kmod-ppp i686 1.0.2-2.2.6.9_55.0.12.EL installed 380 k
kmod-slip i686 1.0-2.2.6.9_55.0.12.EL installed 171 k
krb5-libs i386 1.3.4-49 installed 1.0 M
kudzu i386 1.1.95.22-1 installed 870 k
libc-client i386 2002e-14 installed 997 k
libdbi-dbd-mysql i386 0.6.5-10.RHEL4.1 installed 28 k
libpcap i386 14:0.8.3-10.RHEL4 installed 392 k
libungif i386 4.1.3-1.el4.2 installed 75 k
libungif-progs i386 4.1.3-1.el4.2 installed 320 k
libuser i386 0.52.5-1.el4.1 installed 1.2 M
libxml2-python i386 2.6.16-10 installed 1.3 M
lm_sensors i386 2.8.7-2.40.3 installed 1.5 M
lockdev i386 1.0.1-6.2 installed 19 k
lynx i386 2.8.5-18.2 installed 4.6 M
mc i386 1:4.6.1-0.8.5 installed 4.2 M
mdadm i386 1.12.0-2.el4.sme installed 221 k
minicom i386 2.00.0-19 installed 582 k
mkbootdisk i386 1.5.2-1 installed 6.7 k
mkinitrd i386 4.2.1.10-1.1.el4.sme installed 128 k
mod_auth_external i386 2.2.8-4.el4.sme installed 38 k
mod_auth_tkt i386 2.0.0rc2-1.el4.sme installed 184 k
mod_perl i386 1.99_16-4.5 installed 3.7 M
mod_ssl i386 1:2.0.52-32.3.ent.centos4 installed 170 k
module-init-tools i386 3.1-0.pre5.3.4 installed 609 k
mrtg i386 2.10.15-1 installed 2.6 M
mutt i386 5:1.4.1-12.0.3.el4 installed 2.9 M
mysql i386 4.1.20-2.RHEL4.1.0.1 installed 5.2 M
mysql-server i386 4.1.20-2.RHEL4.1.0.1 installed 21 M
mysqlclient10 i386 3.23.58-4.RHEL4.1 installed 409 k
net-snmp i386 5.1.2-11.EL4.10.0.1 installed 1.9 M
net-snmp-libs i386 5.1.2-11.EL4.10.0.1 installed 4.6 M
net-snmp-perl i386 5.1.2-11.EL4.10.0.1 installed 379 k
net-snmp-utils i386 5.1.2-11.EL4.10.0.1 installed 299 k
netatalk i386 3:2.0.3-6.el4.sme installed 2.9 M
nmap i386 2:3.93-0.2.el4.rf installed 2.6 M
ntp i386 4.2.0.a.20040617-6.el4 installed 2.2 M
nut i386 2.2.0-3.3.el4 installed 2.4 M
nut-client i386 2.2.0-3.3.el4 installed 146 k
oidentd i386 2.0.8-1.el4.rf installed 127 k
openldap i386 2.2.13-7.4E installed 474 k
openldap-servers i386 2.2.13-7.4E installed 7.5 M
openssh i386 3.9p1-8.RHEL4.20 installed 821 k
openssh-clients i386 3.9p1-8.RHEL4.20 installed 630 k
openssh-server i386 3.9p1-8.RHEL4.20 installed 361 k
openssl i686 0.9.7a-43.16 installed 2.4 M
pam i386 0.77-66.21 installed 4.3 M
passwd i386 0.68-10.1 installed 21 k
pciutils i386 2.1.99.test8-3.4 installed 130 k
pcmcia-cs i386 3.2.7-3.5 installed 1.3 M
pear-date noarch 1.4.3-4.el4.sme installed 328 k
pear-db noarch 1.7.6-4.el4.sme installed 653 k
pear-file noarch 1.2.0-4.el4.sme installed 61 k
pear-log noarch 1.8.7-2.el4.sme installed 135 k
pear-mail noarch 1.1.9-03es installed 67 k
pear-mail_mime noarch 1.3.0-4.el4.sme installed 70 k
perl-Authen-PAM i386 0.16-1.2.el4.rf installed 122 k
perl-Authen-SASL noarch 2.10-1.el4.rf installed 62 k
perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-Bignum i386 0.04-1.el4.rf installed 133 k
perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-RSA i386 0.25-1.el4.rf installed 120 k
perl-DBD-MySQL i386 2.9004-3.1.centos4 installed 234 k
perl-GSSAPI i386 0.24-1.el4.rf installed 258 k
perl-IO-Socket-SSL noarch 1.07-1 installed 94 k
perl-LDAP noarch 0.34-1.el4.rf installed 786 k
perl-Mail-DKIM noarch 0.26-1.el4.rf installed 169 k
perl-Mail-DomainKeys noarch 1.0-1.el4.rf installed 31 k
perl-Net_SSLeay.pm i386 1.25-4.el4.at installed 497 k
php i386 4.3.9-3.22.9 installed 3.2 M
php-domxml i386 4.3.9-3.22.9 installed 86 k
php-gd i386 4.3.9-3.22.9 installed 286 k
php-imap i386 4.3.9-3.22.9 installed 83 k
php-ldap i386 4.3.9-3.22.9 installed 39 k
php-mbstring i386 4.3.9-3.22.9 installed 1.4 M
php-mysql i386 4.3.9-3.22.9 installed 40 k
php-pear i386 4.3.9-3.22.9 installed 1.2 M
pine i386 4.64-3.el4.rf installed 11 M
postgresql-libs i386 7.4.17-1.RHEL4.1 installed 372 k
ppp i386 2.4.4-1.3.el4.sme installed 759 k
pptpd i386 1.3.4-1.el4.sme installed 152 k
prelink i386 0.3.3-0.EL4 installed 1.5 M
procps i386 3.2.3-8.6 installed 316 k
proftpd i386 1.3.1-1.el4.rf installed 5.1 M
python i386 2.3.4-14.4 installed 20 M
python-elementtree i386 1.2.6-5.el4.centos installed 337 k
python-urlgrabber noarch 2.9.8-2 installed 471 k
pyxf86config i386 0.3.19-1 installed 138 k
pyzor noarch 0.4.0-11.el4 installed 301 k
qmail i386 1.03-13.el4.sme installed 814 k
quota i386 1:3.12-6.el4 installed 685 k
rdiff-backup i386 1.1.5-1 installed 1.8 M
rhpl i386 0.148.5-1 installed 1.1 M
rkhunter noarch 1.2.9-3.el4.sme installed 377 k
rp-pppoe i386 3.5-22.2.RHEL4.1 installed 218 k
rpm i386 4.3.3-22_nonptl installed 1.6 M
rpm-python i386 4.3.3-22_nonptl installed 214 k
rssh i386 2.3.2-1.2.0.el4.sme installed 55 k
samba i386 3.0.10-1.4E.12.2 installed 24 M
samba-client i386 3.0.10-1.4E.12.2 installed 6.2 M
samba-common i386 3.0.10-1.4E.12.2 installed 13 M
sarg i386 1.4.1-5.2.el4.rf installed 297 k
screen i386 4.0.2-5 installed 715 k
shadow-utils i386 2:4.0.3-61.RHEL4 installed 1.3 M
slocate i386 2.7-13.el4.6 installed 71 k
smeserver-audittools noarch 0.0.2-5.el4.sme installed 11 k
smeserver-clamav noarch 1.2.0-15.el4.sme installed 28 k
smeserver-lazy_admin_tools noarch 0.9.1-2 installed 161 k
smeserver-mediawiki noarch 1.6.10-6 installed 3.3 M
smeserver-qpsmtpd noarch 1.2.1-47.el4.sme installed 51 k
smeserver-spamassassin noarch 1.4.0-16.el4.sme installed 7.0 k
smeserver-support noarch 1.6.0-40.el4.sme installed 73 k
smeserver-webshare noarch 1.0.0-7dmay installed 242 k
smeserver-yum noarch 1.2.0-37.el4.sme installed 68 k
smolt noarch 0.9.8.1-5.el4.sme installed 351 k
spamassassin i386 3.2.3-44.el4 installed 2.7 M
squid i386 7:2.5.STABLE14-1.4E installed 3.1 M
stunnel i386 4.05-3 installed 255 k
stunnel-tls i386 3.22-4.el4.sme installed 55 k
sudo i386 1.6.7p5-30.1.3 installed 336 k
sysklogd i386 1.4.1-26_EL installed 111 k
sysstat i386 5.0.5-15.0.1.el4 installed 279 k
system-config-keyboard noarch 1.2.5-1 installed 129 k
system-config-mouse noarch 1.2.9-1 installed 195 k
tcpdump i386 14:3.8.2-10.RHEL4 installed 697 k
tcsh i386 6.13-9.el4.1 installed 1.5 M
turba-h3 noarch 2.1.4-2.el4.sme installed 5.1 M
udev i386 039-10.15.EL4 installed 1.7 M
ulogd i386 1.24-2.el4.sme installed 363 k
urw-fonts noarch 2.2-6.1 installed 5.7 M
usermode i386 1.74-2 installed 471 k
utempter i386 0.5.5-5 installed 39 k
util-linux i386 2.12a-16.EL4.25 installed 3.5 M
vconfig i386 1.8-4 installed 167 k
vixie-cron i386 4:4.1-49.EL4 installed 125 k
wget i386 1.10.2-0.40E installed 1.4 M
which i386 2.16-4 installed 30 k
xinetd i386 2:2.3.13-4.4E.1 installed 228 k
xlhtml i386 0.5-2.el4.sme installed 130 k
xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL i386 6.8.2-1.EL.31 installed 403 k
xorg-x11-font-utils i386 6.8.2-1.EL.31 installed 214 k
xorg-x11-libs i386 6.8.2-1.EL.31 installed 6.6 M
xorg-x11-xfs i386 6.8.2-1.EL.31 installed 101 k
yum noarch 2.4.3-4.el4.centos installed 1.3 M
yum-plugin-fastestmirror noarch 0.2.4-3.c4 installed 25 k
Transaction Summary
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Install 0 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 264 Package(s)
Total download size: 0
Is this ok [y/N]:
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Here is the beginning of the output from yum remove usbutils (I can't put it all in one post as the output exceeds the maximum post size of 2000 characters)
yum remove usbutils
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Dependencies Resolved
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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Removing:
usbutils i386 0.11-7.RHEL4.1 installed 80 k
Removing for dependencies:
BlockHosts noarch 1.0.0-1 installed 55 k
FuzzyOcr noarch 3.5.1-3.el4.sme installed 134 k
MAKEDEV i386 3.15.2-3 installed 643 k
SysVinit i386 2.85-34.4 installed 163 k
VFlib2 i386 2.25.6-25 installed 556 k
acpid i386 1.0.3-2 installed 27 k
apr-util i386 0.9.4-21 installed 103 k
at i386 3.1.8-80_EL4 installed 75 k
authconfig i386 4.6.10-rhel4.3 installed 978 k
bind-libs i386 20:9.2.4-27.0.1.el4 installed 1.4 M
bind-utils i386 20:9.2.4-27.0.1.el4 installed 250 k
chkfontpath i386 1.10.0-2 installed 12 k
coreutils i386 5.2.1-31.6 installed 7.0 M
cups i386 1:1.1.22-0.rc1.9.20.2.el4_5.2 installed 3.8 M
cups-libs i386 1:1.1.22-0.rc1.9.20.2.el4_5.2 installed 184 k
curl i386 7.12.1-11.el4 installed 435 k
cyrus-sasl i386 2.1.19-14 installed 2.6 M
cyrus-sasl-md5 i386 2.1.19-14 installed 100 k
dbus i386 0.22-12.EL.9 installed 1.1 M
dbus-glib i386 0.22-12.EL.9 installed 69 k
dbus-python i386 0.22-12.EL.9 installed 399 k
dhclient i386 7:3.0.1-59.EL4 installed 434 k
dhcp i386 7:3.0.1-59.EL4 installed 1.2 M
distcache i386 1.4.5-6 installed 226 k
dot-forward i386 0.71-4.el4.sme installed 39 k
dovecot i386 1.0-1.2.rc15.el4.sme installed 2.6 M
dstat noarch 0.6.6-1.el4.rf installed 238 k
e-smith noarch 4.2.0-9.el4.sme installed 18 k
e-smith-apache noarch 1.2.0-16.el4.sme installed 44 k
e-smith-backup noarch 1.14.0-16.el4.sme installed 107 k
e-smith-base i386 4.18.0-75.el4.sme installed 603 k
e-smith-cups noarch 0.3.0-2.sme6 installed 77 k
e-smith-cvm-unix-local noarch 1.2.0-2.el4.sme installed 210
e-smith-dnscache noarch 1.0.0-8.el4.sme installed 32 k
e-smith-domains noarch 1.4.0-8.el4.sme installed 42 k
e-smith-dynamicdns-dyndns noarch 1.4.0-3.el4.sme installed 19 k
e-smith-dynamicdns-dyndns.org noarch 1.4.0-4.el4.sme installed 19 k
e-smith-dynamicdns-tzo noarch 1.4.0-3.el4.sme installed 18 k
...(see above)
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Thank you.
Personally I think that this is a serious problem for unexperienced linux-users. I really think that the dev team should take a look at this. If uninstalling WinRAR for instance would break MS Windows, because winrar depends om some windows-components, I do not think that as many people would own a PC these days. There are probably a lot of advantages to this for experienced users, but maybe a big warning would help. Or the ability to uninstall something in the Manager, without deleting other packs. Or maybe in SME Server it shouldn't be allowed to uninstall components vital for SME Server. But, okay, that is a very different discussion. I also had this problem at hand before, so I was a little less scared now.
Got it running again, but some things don't work. Is there an easy way to 'complete' my system again? And what RPM creates the server-manager, and the ibay internet access? httpd?
Yum didn't work okay, but after a reboot it know appears to work. I entered 'yum update' and he is very very busy!
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After yum update (download about 51 MB) i still cannot access the ibays-websites or the webmail etc. I think something is not installed or doesn't have the right properties. What to do. Also no server-manager!
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piedie
And why does this keep happening to me (http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=37652.0)?
Because you keep doing stupid things, and you appear to have not learnt from your previous mistake(s).
Deleting or uninstalling files because you think it is a good idea, is definitely a bad idea.
You are trying to fix problems without really understanding or correctly diagnosing the problem, and you end up doing wrong or inappropriate things.
Your noob experience (or lack of it) is definitely a contributing factor, but you are doing some stupid actions on your part.
There have been recommendations in these forums and in bugzilla NOT to use yum to uninstall packages as there can be serious ramifications, (ie removal of dependency packages) as you have experienced.
The safe way to remove packages is to use
rpm -e packagename
as I believe you have been told previosuly, yet you insisted on using yum to do so again !!!
I hope you learn this time.
Stop fiddling !
If in doubt (and at present it seems you should be in doubt about most things sme) then ask first.
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piedie
There are probably a lot of advantages to this for experienced users, but maybe a big warning would help. Or the ability to uninstall something in the Manager, without deleting other packs. Or maybe in SME Server it shouldn't be allowed to uninstall components vital for SME Server.
There is a big warning. Manage idividual packages is NOT enabled by default.
When you go to enable it you receive this message:
The software installer can manage groups of related package or individual packages. By default, only groups of packages are presented. If you wish to manage individual packages, enable this option. This should only be done by experienced administrators.
Notice the words "This should only be done by experienced administrators."
Look at the bug tracker as there are bugs re recent updates and server manager, perhaps you have now run into one of those.
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piedie
You could install sme7.2 from CD then do yum update (plus signal event post-upgrade and reboot) onto a test system, and then compare the installed rpms with your live system.
Then manually install any missing rpms on your live system (if any are still missing) using
rpm -Uvh packagename
followed by
signal-event post-upgrade
reboot
If you are still having problems after that then there may be template errors or problems, so remove all your custom templates and do
signal-event post-upgrade
reboot
You will possibly need to reinstall contribs.
I suggest you create a New Feature Request (NFR) report at bugzilla and request that
yum remove
functionality be disabled, due to the problems it creates if wrongly used. Search bugzilla first as I recall there was some talk about this.