R: R: [Fedora-ia64-list] Fedora-ia64 status

[Bettoni Fabio]

Hi Doug,
on friday I updated to upstart but not enough brave to reboot.
Today I did ifdown eth1 and I got:
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown-eth: line 77: pidof: command not found


/sbin/pidof is present in sysvinit but not in upstart
So initscripts and redhat-lsb seems to use this command.


Also the following commands are missing and maybe called from initscripts:
/bin/mountpoint
/sbin/change_console
/sbin/killall5
/sbin/pidof
/sbin/sulogin
/usr/bin/last
/usr/bin/lastb
/usr/bin/mesg
/usr/bin/utmpdump
/usr/bin/wall



 

-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: fedora-ia64-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-ia64-list-bounces at redhat.com] Per conto di Doug Chapman
Inviato: venerdì 7 marzo 2008 15.14
A: ia64 Fedora Core Development
Oggetto: Re: R: [Fedora-ia64-list] Fedora-ia64 status

Bettoni,

You have a very good point.  It sounds like you rely on this system for other things?  I have not had concerns myself because all of my systems are test boxes which I can re-install whenever.

To be honest I have not done an F7->rawhide update (Fedora does not technically support jumping over a release).  I have just done
F8->rawhide.  I need to be clear that this really is a "use at your own
risk" sort of deal.  All I can say is I have not run into any problems related to upstart.

As far as rolling back to the older init you hopefully could boot the older F7 installer in rescue mode, get to a shell, remove the upstart rpm then install the old sysvinit.  Depending on how broken your system might be you might even be able to just boot single user mode and fix it up.

The _best_ solution however would be to install a spare hard drive and do a fresh install to experiment on.

- Doug

On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 12:36 +0100, Bettoni Fabio wrote:
> Hi Doug,
> I have updated almost everything except substituting sysvinit with 
> upstart.
> I'm scared because if /sbin/init fail, I think system will not startup 
> at all.
> 
> Do you have rollback advices if something fails ?
> 
> 
> Fabio
> 
> Setting up Update Process
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package event-compat-sysv.noarch 0:0.3.9-8.fc9 set to be updated
> --> Processing Dependency: upstart >= 0.3.9 for package:
> event-compat-sysv
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package upstart.ia64 0:0.3.9-9.fc9 set to be updated
> --> Processing Dependency: /sbin/pidof for package: redhat-lsb 
> --> Processing Dependency: /sbin/pidof for package: initscripts 
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> redhat-lsb-3.1-19.fc9.ia64 from installed has depsolving problems
>   --> Missing Dependency: /sbin/pidof is needed by package
> redhat-lsb-3.1-19.fc9.ia64 (installed)
> initscripts-8.64-1.ia64 from installed has depsolving problems
>   --> Missing Dependency: /sbin/pidof is needed by package
> initscripts-8.64-1.ia64 (installed)
> Error: Missing Dependency: /sbin/pidof is needed by package
> redhat-lsb-3.1-19.fc9.ia64 (installed)
> Error: Missing Dependency: /sbin/pidof is needed by package
> initscripts-8.64-1.ia64 (installed)
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