FC4 upgrade

David Cary Hart Fedora at TQMcube.com
Mon Jul 4 15:39:02 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 12:11 +0200, Gland Vador wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I upgraded my fedora core from FC3 to FC4 with yum. And found some problems:
> 
> 1) when I execute :
> []# /etc/init.d/microcode_ctl start
> it responds:
>       microcode device /dev/cpu/microcode doesn't exist?

> Anybody see the same problem ? For me is a double problem. First udev 
> doesn't load the microcode module and then the microcode_ctl script 
> remove the module. Or I don't have the right CPU ??
> 
CPU is fine but not worth worrying about.

> 2) This is a head less server. No X. But, I want the samba package who 
> needs the cups-libs which needs libtiff that needs xorg-libs, etc. Any 
> way that libtiff doesn't needs xorg ?? Without recompiling, because the 
> next time the libtiff will be upgraded the X will come along...
> The same for cvs package. It seems that it needs tcsh packages just for 
> a script in the /usr/share folder. In the FC3 there wasn't this requires 
> for cvs and libtiff.
> 
Is there some reason that you don't want to install X? It sure makes
managing a server a whole lot easier.
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