VortexBox 2.0: Update your system regularly

[Ron Olsen]

That's really strange. yum should find the new 3.1.5-6 kernel in the Fedora Updates repository.

What does

cat /etc/yum.conf

show?

You can try installing the 3.1.5-6 kernel directly:

rpm -ivh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/16/i386/kernel-PAE-3.1.5-6.fc16.i686.rpm

[marcellevi]

[vortexbox.localdomain ~]# cat /etc/yum.conf
[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum/$basearch/$releasever
keepcache=0
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1
installonly_limit=3

# This is the default, if you make this bigger yum won't see if the metadata
# is newer on the remote and so you'll "gain" the bandwidth of not having to
# download the new metadata and "pay" for it by yum not having correct
# information.
# It is esp. important, to have correct metadata, for distributions like
# Fedora which don't keep old packages around. If you don't like this checking
# interupting your command line usage, it's much better to have something
# manually check the metadata once an hour (yum-updatesd will do this).
# metadata_expire=90m

# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d*

[Ron Olsen]

yum.conf looks good. This is really strange.

Try installing the 3.1.5-6 kernel directly:

rpm -ivh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/16/i386/kernel-PAE-3.1.5-6.fc16.i686.rpm

Then reboot and see if you come up with the new kernel.

[marcellevi]

[vortexbox.localdomain ~]# rpm -ivh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/16/i386/kernel-PAE-3.1.5-6.fc16.i686.rpm
Retrieving http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/16/i386/kernel-PAE-3.1.5-6.fc16.i686.rpm
Preparing... ################################### [100%]
1:kernel-PAE ################################## [100%]
grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template
[vortexbox.localdomain ~]# yum list kernel-PAELoaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Installed Packages
kernel-PAE.i686 3.1.0-7.fc16 installed
kernel-PAE.i686 3.1.5-6.fc16 installed
[vortexbox.localdomain ~]# reboot

Broadcast message from root@vortexbox.localdomain on pts/0 (Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:58:23 -0600):

The system is going down for reboot NOW!

[vortexbox.localdomain ~]# Connection to 192.168.1.203 closed by remote host.
Connection to 192.168.1.203 closed.
macbook-pro:~ marcellevi$ ssh root@192.168.1.203
root@192.168.1.203's password:
Last login: Wed Dec 21 20:27:29 2011 from macbook-pro
[vortexbox.localdomain ~]# rpm -q kernel-PAEkernel-PAE-3.1.0-7.fc16.i686
kernel-PAE-3.1.5-6.fc16.i686
[vortexbox.localdomain ~]# uname -r3.1.5-6.fc16.i686.PAE
[vortexbox.localdomain ~]#

[marcellevi]

seems like that got it (also confirmed in phpsysinfo). I'll have to wait and see if it continues to update through the normal process.

Would there be any benefit (or harm) of removing the old 3.1.0-7 kernel? Just in case it decides it want to boot in that one in the future…

Thanks for all the help. I felt like doing a manual download/install was what was needed, but couldn't find the guidance as to exactly how to do that on any public forum.

Marcel

[Ron Olsen]

Your VB should continue to boot with the new kernel. You can delete the old kernel if you want, but it shouldn't be booted by default.

What I don't understand is why yum did not find the new kernel in the Fedora Updates repository.

The next test is when a newer kernel is added to Fedora Updates. It will be interesting to see if yum picks that one up when you update.

[ben2909]

hey all,

i'm a new user of vortexbox, and love to keep it updated, but am rather lazy and hate pressing y and enter on the prompts when i do the update command, is there any additions i can do on the yum clean all; yum update line to always say yes when prompted?

thanks in advance,

Ben

[Ron Olsen]

You should usually update from the VB GUI Upgrade page at
http://vortexbox/upgrade.php by clicking the "Start Upgrade" button.

If you are already logged in to your VB, you can also update by entering

yum clean all; yum update

from the command line.

If you don't want to enter "y" after seeing what packages will be updated, you can enter

yum clean all; yum -y update

and the update will proceed without asking for confirmation.

[haozoudao1988]

I just ran an upgrade the day after a successful Fast Upgrade to VB 2.0. *I ran both "yum clean all; yum update" from Mac Terminal and an Upgrade via the web GUI. I'm getting a similar, but different error as mentioned just above:Transaction Check Error:
file /usr/lib/libmad.so.0.2.1 from install of libmad-0.15.1b-13.fc12.i586 conflicts* with file from package libmad0-0.15.1b-4.fc16.i686

Error Summary

[sandystevees]

I like your post.I understand it, the upgrade icon or the Command Line methods of upgrading VortexBox do not upgrade the Linux operating system, just the VB and LMS code. If that is correct, do you foresee any problem or have any advice for those of us who have upgraded to LMS 7.7.0, and not yet from Linux 14 to Linux 16?.However, VB 1.10 runs on Fedora 14, which is no longer being updated by Fedora. *So you will see no Fedora updates on VB 1.10.