No clue how this happened, but I ran the YUM updater last night and something wedged (as far as I can tell) building apache, the server hard locked, I rebooted, httpd won't start to save my soul. Not a single error in /var/log/httpd/access or /messages that would indicate something broken.

When I tried to rerun yum I got a message indicating that the system was "currently updating."

Thinking that there was a HUGE list of updates I let the machine sit in that state for 3 more hours.

I watched /var/log/yum and absolutely nothing changed during that period. Not one single update is running, though it claims to be. I don't exactly remember which part of the update it died at, and, since the drive is unplugged and I'm at work... :D

Anyone else ever seen this before? Whatever happened absolutely crippled the thing. Anyone ever seen this?

is this StrongBolt or standard BQ?

There is no difference between the two (Strongbolt and "regular BQ"). Strongbolt is an installer for CentOS+BlueQuartz.

I have both systems and I can say there is clearly a difference between them... That's why I asked.

I have both systems and I can say there is clearly a difference between them... That's why I asked.I also have both systems (and a RackStar system, and a 550 system, and a stock Raq4 OS system). In my examination I have found the differences between the two systems (Nuonce CentOS+BQ and Strongbolt CentOS+BQ) negligible (after updates). Even the differences between Rackstar and BQ are pretty minor -- I outlined them in another post some time ago.

Perhaps you will enlighten us with what you believe the differences are?

well the kernel in all 3 systems, the init files, the display drivers... That's about all I have to say at the moment.

well the kernel in all 3 systems, the init files, the display drivers... That's about all I have to say at the moment.<snipped>

* The kernel in Nuonce is 2.6.9-55, Strongbolt installs 2.6.16 (Raq4 OS is 2.2.16)
* Raq systems don't have displays, so no display drivers to compare
* Init files? Which ones do you mean? No significant differences here ...

I will repeat -- there are no significant differences between the CentOS+BQ installed by the Nuonce installer and the CentOS+BQ installed by StrongBolt. Both are vastly superior to the old Raq4 OS install. The Nuonce install is slightly more up-to-date in some ways, but most of those go away once you do a Yum update. The StrongBolt installer installs a slightly older Cobalt-specific kernel, which is no updated by Yum, but which can be easily recompiled and updated.

So, 5ivepdx, is this StrongBolt or standard BQ?

Wow that was a lot to read. This is Strongbolt Linux. Sorry, was out of town a couple days

Well I just had a customer describe using BlueQuartz as "Like living on a fault line" and I know that StrongBolt has some strange issues that pop up on this list from time to time and several people have contacted me directly having very strange problems.

That said you might want to try the StrongBolt forums. I'm not sure if they are very active though. When I have looked at it I have seen "this forum seems dead" posts...