update error on F9

[Paul Newell]

Craig White wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 21:28 -0700, Paul Newell wrote:
>   
>> Finally managed to get FC5 upgraded to F9 by forgetting the upgrade and 
>> doing a full re-installation (the thread on 6 -> 9 made it clear I had 
>> to do that if I had any errors).
>>
>> Even managed to get internet access which I could never do on FC5, so 
>> I'm already ahead of the game.
>>
>> I got the expected notice of all the stuff that needed to be updated via 
>> pop-up and said "sure" after I had logged in as root to make sure there 
>> would be no permissions issue. It failed with the following error message:
>>
>> org.freedesktop.packagelist.update-system
>> auth_admin_keep_always
>>
>> I tried from the other pulldown (admin?) for update system, got the 
>> window, said update, it did nothing.
>>
>> I was able to verify that I could get an update by downloading Firefox 
>> 3.0.1 (install DVD has Firefox 3 Beta 5) ... of course I couldn't 
>> install it as I could figure it out since it wasn't the "ultra newbie" 
>> Windows "download, click, install" system (since I've never had internet 
>> access on Linux, I know this is another issue I have to learn ... and will).
>>
>> My question to fedora-list is "what is the org.frredesktop.etc error and 
>> how to I correct so it will work". If I need to go command line and do 
>> it through yum, that's okay ... I just need a bit of guidance on the 
>> process.
>>     
> ----
> no reason to log in as root to update...the package manager will ask for
> root password before proceeding.
>
> I would guess that updates are failing because some process is running
> which is blocking other processes from running at this point, perhaps
> the best thing you could do is restart, log in as normal and let the
> update go (it will take a long time because several hundred packages
> have been updated since the DVD release).
>
> Probably best to let update handle updating Firefox too.
>
> Craig
>
>   
Actually, the only reason I tried to download Firefox manually was to 
see if there was any problem getting updates. I noticed Firefox was in 
the list the updater wanted to deal with.

Kevin suggested the same thing, log in as normal (not root) and see what 
happens. I plan to try this next week

I am a bit curious why any processes would block me as root but not as a 
user, but I think it is best to try suggestions before pushing that one.

Thanks,
Paul