General Problems

[Rick Stevens]

Mugleston, Brad wrote:
> I upgraded to RH9 a little while ago and everything was running fine.  Then Xiaman Evolution (the email program) stopped sending emails - I was getting a sendmail error).

Would've been nice if you had investigated the sendmail error first.
The fix would've been a lot easier, I suspect.

>  All the other email programs (pine, Mozilla, etc) worked just fine.
> 
> Someone suggested I upgrade to the newest Evolution program and I've had nothing but problems.  Seems that if  you upgrade to Evolution you also upgrade to have Xiaman as your desktop and it replaces everything with it's own choices of software.

Brilliant.  Lovely.  Let's hear it for Ximian.

>  On top of all that Evolution still will not deliver email.

What's the error?

> Well, then I had a problem using Mozilla - stopped printing then the plug-in's all went away.

Sounds like they wiped out your /usr/lib/mozilla link.

> Anyone have any suggestions?  If I were to re-install RedHat 9 what kinds of problems would I have (I've gone through quite a few up2dates and Xiaman updates).

The same danger you have with any upgrade.  Back up your data and do a
fresh install, but do NOT let the system reformat your disk partitions.
Leave them alone (that should leave your user data alone for the most
part, but there's no guarantee) and simply do an install.

As for the updates, I just pull all of the "i386" and "noarch" update
RPMs (except for the ones that start with "kernel-") off one of the
mirrors (I use kernel.org's mirror) and stick them on a CD.  I do a
mass update by:

	# mount /dev/cdrom
	# rpm -Fvh /mnt/cdrom/*.rpm

I then pull down the kernel RPM I want and "rpm -ivh kernel-*.rpm".
Note that the latest iptables RPM probably won't install until you
upgrade the kernel as they have a dependency.  So, update the kernel
then update the iptables RPM (if any).
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