Gnome won't start after upgrade to FC7

[Edward DeMeulle]

On 9/2/07 10:52, Teo Fonrouge wrote:
> It depends on how you did the upgrade.
>
> In fact, I have some FC6 boxes around that had been upgraded across all fedora 
> releases since FC1, only by replacing the current 'fedora-release' package 
> with the new release one.
>
> In your case, you need to remove the fedora-release-6-4 package, after that 
> send a 'yum clean all' and then a 'yum update kernel', then verify that you 
> have the new kernel installed and dont' remove the old one for the momment.
>
Thanks. I originally did the upgrade through the FC7 DVD. Removing the
6-4 release package seems to have passed the 'Cannot open/read
repomd.xml' hurdle. Now I'm getting a "Error: No Package Matching
glibc.i686" message. Trying 'yum update glibc-common' or 'yum install
glibc-common' received the same error. I see some mention of the problem
(for example:  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=228430) but
no resolution was offered.

[root at troll home]# yum update glibc-common
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package glibc-common.i386 0:2.6-4 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.6-3 for package: glibc
Error: No Package Matching glibc.i686

[root at troll home]# yum update glibc.i686
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package glibc.i686 0:2.6-4 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: glibc = 2.6-3 for package: glibc-devel
--> Processing Dependency: glibc = 2.6-3 for package: glibc-headers
--> Processing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.6-4 for package: glibc
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Running transaction check
---> Package glibc-common.i386 0:2.6-4 set to be updated
---> Package glibc-devel.i386 0:2.6-4 set to be updated
---> Package glibc-headers.i386 0:2.6-4 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.5-10.fc6 for package: glibc
Error: No Package Matching glibc.i686

[root at troll home]# rpm -q --queryformat
"%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n" glibc
glibc-2.5-10.fc6.i686
glibc-2.5-3.i686
glibc-2.6-3.i686

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Edward DeMeulle <ed at demeulle.org>