Re: [cobalt-users] Staqware and Installing pkg upgrades

[Hendrik Runte <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Does anyone know the best way to handle upgrades to a Raq3i which is
> running
> Staqware?  When I install a 'pkg' file which requires reboot, the
> system
> begins failing over.  I have set the outage monitoring to 5 minutes,
> but
> that doesn't seem to help.
<snip> 
> Joe Brennskag
> Hardy Telecommunications, Inc.
> 304-897-9911
> joe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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Had the same reboot failure 3 times in feb/mar after upgrading some cobalt pkg. 
Since then everytime I upgrade my hands get wet because my RaQ3 is miles away.

There is one alternative way of handling cobalt pkgs but should only be taken 
if one upgrade fails without any error notice (had this with imap-update: imap 
was simply not running properly but running a bit).

You can untar the pkgs and you will get rpms (with tar xzf xxx.pkg). But your 
gui will not notice this so it won't appear in your list of installed upgrades.

Hence, this was the only way for me to get imap running again, as the gui will 
deny to overwrite a once installed package. As it wasn't possible to run the 
uninstall script (it simply refuses to work without error message, cobalt 
support did the same) either, this was the hard way to reinstall the broken 
package and it worked.

Regards,

Hendrik Runte
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