How to cross-upgrade Fedora x86(32-bit) => x86_64(64-bit) using 'preupgrade'

[Gerry Reno]

Gerry Reno wrote:
> Callum Lerwick wrote:
>> On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 10:32 -0400, Gerry Reno wrote:
>>  
>>> David P. Quigley wrote:
>>>    
>>>> On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 00:41 -0400, Gerry Reno wrote:
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>>         REMOVE/REINSTALL SELINUX (SELinux gets hopelessly confused 
>>>>> through all this so just remove and reinstall later)
>>>>>             
>>>> I'm curious what you mean by this? Do you mean all the labeling is 
>>>> off?
>>>> Is there something wrong with the tools not working during this 
>>>> process?
>>>>
>>>> Dave
>>>>       
>>>  
>>> We were getting all sorts of avc denials and when we ran 'fixfiles 
>>> relabel' it would get errors and we were not able to relabel the 
>>> system.  So the easiest route was just to remove selinux during the 
>>> process and reinstall it afterwards, which worked perfectly.
>>>     
>>
>> 'setenforce 0' wasn't enough?
>>   
> For some reason, no.  We couldn't get logged back into the system 
> because of avc denial problems.  So we just uninstalled it and 
> reinstalled it after everything was finished.
>
It appeared like it had become totally confused.  Probably because of 
all the different package removals and installs.  Maybe there is a 
common cause for why the rpmdb got totally confused and selinux getting 
confused.  I was not able to find out why this was happening only found 
a way to work around the problems.

Regards,
Gerry