Newbie questions

[Bill Fink]

Hi Steve,

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Steve Roy wrote:

> 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.

yum install kernel-source

> 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

rpmbuild --rebuild mol-kmods-0.9.70.src.rpm

> What do I do doc?
> 
> Steve

						-Bill