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PolishHurricane

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Registered: 2011-02-02

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Upgrade System on VPS VM running on old CentOS/kernel

Hey all,

I'm renting a virtual server from a company that doesn't support ArchLinux!  So I forced them to install an OS Template for vePortal.  Trying to help spread the Arch.

I gave them this template link for arch-2010.05-x86_64-minimal: http://dev.archlinux.org/~ibiru/openvz/2010.05/
More here: http://wiki.archserver.org/index.php/OpenVZ_Template

Among other issues on their end, I have encountered problems updating the system with pacman and glibc.  What happens is I'm getting a "kernel too old" and I have to start all over again.  Apparently from what I've seen this issue has to do with an older kernel version.  I've been trying to solve this and other issues for 3 nights straight, all I want is a server .  I've encountered a partial fix for this issue here which involves changing the mirror list to an old mirror which has an older copy of glibc: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=111062

uname -r
2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.028stab070.14

So I've upgraded as far as I can, but if I keep going or switch mirrors (which I assume I need to do to keep an updated installation), I screw it up again.  What should I do?  I'd like a second opinion on the matter on what I should actually do, IE follow some of that threads recommendations, or not?

I would appreciate any help very much and if someone does have a solution, can they show me how to do it step by step?  I'm very new to Arch and Linux in general.

Thanks

Allan

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Re: Upgrade System on VPS VM running on old CentOS/kernel

http://www.archlinux.org/news/minimum-r … creased-1/

Add this to the top of pacman.conf:

[glibc-vps]
http://dev.archlinux.org/~ibiru/openvz/$repo/$arch

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PolishHurricane

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Registered: 2011-02-02

Posts: 47

Re: Upgrade System on VPS VM running on old CentOS/kernel

It says 'glibc-vps' not recognized.

PolishHurricane

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Registered: 2011-02-02

Posts: 47

Re: Upgrade System on VPS VM running on old CentOS/kernel

Ah! Yes!  Thanks Allan.  And thanks ioni.

Note, this is for "kernel too old" and it will most likely say on the older OpenVZ VPS templates at least that it is not found.  Use this instead..

[glibc-vps]
Server = http://dev.archlinux.org/~ibiru/openvz/glibc-vps/$arch

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VPS_Repo

Last edited by PolishHurricane (2011-05-13 01:32:46)