Archive for category Linux
When a yum update kills itself…
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Linux on August 12, 2011
There’s a bunch of clean up to do. New kernel isn’t working properly – boot from old one. Try yum update again, get an error message about an existing transaction. Have yum-utils already installed, so yum-complete-transactions is a command away. Even after repeating it multiple times, yum still complains about broken packages. Turns out yum […]
Virsh/Xend management
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Xen on November 17, 2010
Since I can’t really make head or tails of the xend/xenstore and the virsh way of configuring domains to autostart, I’ve just settled with exporting the config files from virsh and converting them to the native xen format. Like so: virsh dumpxml hydrogen > /etc/xen/hydrogen.xml && virsh domxml-to-native /etc/xen/hydrogen.xml > /etc/xen/hydrogen && ln -s /etc/xen/hydrogen […]