July 22, 2007 in the late evening
· Filed under centos, centos5, linux
Last night I attempted to upgrade my CentOS 4.5 desktop to CentOS 5 and was met with miserable failure. ‘yum upgrade’ path failed due to abysmal dependency resolution. Upgrade by booting up with a CentOS 5 dvd-rom failed mysteriously with a big ERROR pop-up window just when the installer finished transfer installation image to the disk. I can only vaguely recall of this kinda trouble/misery when upgrading a RHL 5.2 desktop to RHL 6.0, or something ancient like that. Read the rest of this entry »
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April 12, 2007 at around evening time
· Filed under RHEL, RHEL5, centos, centos5
Although I subscribed to CentOS announce mailing list, I check CentOS’s official site every time I sit on my desk at home. After all, RHEL 5 had been released for nearly a month by now. Each every time, I was disappointed to find the CentOS 5 beta listed on the main page. Tonight, I was pleased to find CentOS 5 was released, finally, for both x86 and x86_64 architectures. The CentOS-announce mailing list post was stamped Thu Apr 12 22:36:44 UTC 2007. Up to now, I still didn’t see such a post in my gmail. Read the rest of this entry »
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