Newbie questions

[Steve Roy]

On Aug 26, 2004, at 9:35 AM, Steve Roy wrote:

> This link explains why 'yum update' doesn't work and so I copied the 
> yum.conf file it recommends and ran 'yum update' again. This time it 
> worked, but somehow when it was done the command 'rpm -i 
> mol-kmods-0.9.70-3.ppc.rpm' appeared in the terminal. It failed 
> because it couldn't find mol-kmods-0.9.70-3.ppc.rpm, which the MOL 
> download page says doesn't exist because it has to be compiled (see 2. 
> above).
>
> So now I was wondering what to do. Reading the instructions for the 
> next step in the googled link above, it said that after running 'yum 
> update' the 2.4.22-2g kernel should be in the /boot directory. So I 
> looked but it's not there.  What do I do?
>
> In addition, the instructions said I have to edit yaboot.conf to 
> include the new kernel. I did that to get ahead, but then I have to 
> run 'ybin -v' and when I try I get "command not found", which is 
> rather weird. What's going on?

OK I got through all this, thanks to the suggestion of Roger, by 
logging in as root. I was able to do 'yum update' without any errors, 
and then to do 'ybin -v' to update the bootstrap partition. I rebooted, 
and now I'm running 2.4.22-2g. Great.

So I tried 'startmol -X' again and still no joy:
/usr/lib/mol/0.9.70/bin/mol: error while loading shared libraries: 
libasound.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or 
directory

I tried 'startmol -a -X' but the same thing occurred, with additional 
messages like:
WARNING: A root-only flag was ignored

Now I'm not sure what to do. I think I should recompile the MOL kernel 
modules. But the MOL user guide (which mentions it's obsolete 
information) says that the symlink /lib/modules/2.4.22-2g/build is used 
to find the kernel headers, and this symlink points to 
/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-2g, which doesn't exist on my machine. The only 
directory in /usr/src is rpm. Is it because I didn't do a src install 
of YDL? I did a workstation install.

Nevertheless, I figured maybe it's just because the MOL user guide 
instructions are obsolete, so I downloaded mol-kmods-0.9.70.src.rpm, 
but I'm supposed to do a 'rpm --rebuild' on it, and I get:
--rebuild: unknown option

What do I do doc?

Steve

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