moving a fedora 7 to rawhide
Antonio Olivares
olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Sat Apr 5 00:07:24 UTC 2008
--- Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > > Dear folks,
> > >
> > > since Fedora 7 is slowly passing away, support
> is
> > > ending EOL, I decided to update it to rawhide,
> > since
> > > Fedora 8 is not what I wanted to update it to.
> > >
> > > I downloaded the fedora-release-8.92 rpm and
> > installed
> > > it and the fedora-notes which was a prerequisite
> > for
> > > fedora-release then I disabled fedora repo and
> > enabled
> > > development repo and on the journey begins.
> > >
> > > I am following the advice from
> > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Testing
> > >
> > > I have encountered a few issues, namely the
> kernel
> > > does not boot --??185. I have to boot to
> > 2.6.23.15??
> >
> > As usual, a dearth of information. What hardware?
> > What kernel? What
> > symptoms?
> >
> >
> > > only since the machine only boots two kernels I
> > have
> > > to resort to booting it. A few conflicts here
> and
> > > there, Is there a cleanup script that checks for
> > fc7
> > > rpms and deletes them and finds corresponding
> fc9
> > > rpms?
> >
> > I wouldn't expect one; if Anaconda and yum don't
> do
> > it, you're pretty
> > much Pat Malone.
> > This will give some clues as to what's obsolete:
> >
> > rpm -qa --last | less
> >
> > As for suitable replacements, it's like beauty.
> >
> >
> > >
> > > I know that updating a dying Fedora 7 to rawhide
> > is
> > > not recommended, but I said what the heck, if I
> > get
> > > burned, I'll just get Fedora-9-Beta media and
> > install
> > > from there. I just want a script if it exists
> and
> > try
> > > to sort things out and hopefully make the
> machine
> > boot
> > > into the newer kernels and get going from there.
>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Cheers
> > John
> >
> > -- spambait
> > 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu
> > Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu
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> >
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>
> So far so good except the following:
>
> I can login as regular user, but startx does not
> work
> :(
>
> Several updates fail, but I guess they are workable
>
> [root at localhost ~]# yum clean metadata
> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> 0 metadata files removed
> 0 sqlite files removed
> 0 metadata files removed
> [root at localhost ~]# yum update
> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> rawhide 100%
> |=========================| 2.4 kB 00:00
> primary.sqlite.bz2 1% |
>
> | 72 kB 00:27 ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2
> 5%
> |= | 344 kB 00:22
> ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2 10% |==
>
> | 640 kB 00:18 ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2
> 15% |=== | 944 kB 00:15
> ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2 20% |=====
>
> | 1.2 MB 00:12 ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2
> 25% |====== | 1.5 MB 00:10
> ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2 29% |=======
>
> | 1.8 MB 00:09 ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2
> 34% |======== | 2.1 MB 00:08
> ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2 39% |=========
>
> | 2.4 MB 00:07 ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2
> 44% |=========== | 2.7 MB 00:06
> ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2 49% |============
>
> | 3.0 MB 00:05 ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2
> 54% |============= | 3.3 MB 00:04
> ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2 59% |==============
>
> | 3.6 MB 00:04 ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2
> 64% |================ | 3.9 MB 00:03
> ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2 69% |=================
>
> | 4.2 MB 00:02 ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2
> 73% |================== | 4.5 MB 00:02
> ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2 78%
> |===================
> | 4.8 MB 00:01 ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2
> 83% |==================== | 5.1 MB 00:01
> ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2 88%
> |====================== | 5.4 MB 00:00
> ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2 93%
> |======================= | 5.7 MB 00:00
> ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2 98%
> |======================== | 6.0 MB 00:00
> ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2 100%
> |=========================| 6.1 MB 00:06
> Setting up Update Process
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package system-config-firewall.noarch
> 0:1.2.7-1.fc9 set to be updated
> ---> Package mikmod.i386 0:3.2.2-8.beta1.fc9 set to
> be
> updated
> ---> Package crystalsvg-icon-theme.i386
> 0:4.0.3-3.fc9
> set to be updated
> ---> Package xorg-x11-drv-geode.i386 0:2.8.0-2.fc9
> set
> to be updated
> ---> Package firstboot.i386 0:1.95-2.fc9 set to be
> updated
> --> Processing Dependency: libuser-python for
> package:
> firstboot
> ---> Package upstart.i386 0:0.3.9-14.fc9 set to be
> updated
> ---> Package neon.i386 0:0.28.2-2 set to be updated
> ---> Package xdvik.i386 0:22.84.13-17.fc9 set to be
> updated
> ---> Package system-config-firewall-tui.noarch
> 0:1.2.7-1.fc9 set to be updated
> ---> Package pulseaudio-esound-compat.i386
> 0:0.9.10-1.fc9 set to be updated
> --> Processing Dependency: pulseaudio = 0.9.10-1.fc9
> for package: pulseaudio-esound-compat
> ---> Package system-config-users.noarch
> 0:1.2.78-1.fc9
> set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package libuser-python.i386 0:0.56.8-1 set to
> be
> updated
> ---> Package pulseaudio.i386 0:0.9.10-1.fc9 set to
> be
> updated
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>
>
=== message truncated ===
Install 8 Package(s)
Update 5 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)
Total size: 14 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Check Error:
file /sbin/halt from install of
upstart-0.3.9-14.fc9.i386 conflicts with file from
package sysvinit-2.86-17.i386
file /sbin/init from install of
upstart-0.3.9-14.fc9.i386 conflicts with file from
package sysvinit-2.86-17.i386
file /sbin/poweroff from install of
upstart-0.3.9-14.fc9.i386 conflicts with file from
package sysvinit-2.86-17.i386
file /sbin/reboot from install of
upstart-0.3.9-14.fc9.i386 conflicts with file from
package sysvinit-2.86-17.i386
file /sbin/runlevel from install of
upstart-0.3.9-14.fc9.i386 conflicts with file from
package sysvinit-2.86-17.i386
file /sbin/shutdown from install of
upstart-0.3.9-14.fc9.i386 conflicts with file from
package sysvinit-2.86-17.i386
file /sbin/telinit from install of
upstart-0.3.9-14.fc9.i386 conflicts withfile from
package sysvinit-2.86-17.i386
file /usr/share/man/man8/halt.8.gz from install of
upstart-0.3.9-14.fc9.i386 conflicts with file from
package sysvinit-2.86-17.i386
file /usr/share/man/man8/init.8.gz from install of
upstart-0.3.9-14.fc9.i386 conflicts with file from
package sysvinit-2.86-17.i386
file /usr/share/man/man8/poweroff.8.gz from install
of upstart-0.3.9-14.fc9.i386 conflicts with file from
package sysvinit-2.86-17.i386
file /usr/share/man/man8/reboot.8.gz from install of
upstart-0.3.9-14.fc9.i386 conflicts with file from
package sysvinit-2.86-17.i386
file /usr/share/man/man8/runlevel.8.gz from install
of upstart-0.3.9-14.fc9.i386 conflicts with file from
package sysvinit-2.86-17.i386
file /usr/share/man/man8/shutdown.8.gz from install
of upstart-0.3.9-14.fc9.i386 conflicts with file from
package sysvinit-2.86-17.i386
file /usr/share/man/man8/telinit.8.gz from install
of upstart-0.3.9-14.fc9.i386 conflicts with file from
package sysvinit-2.86-17.i386
file
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libusermodule.so from
install of libuser-python-0.56.8-1.i386 conflicts with
file from package libuser-0.56.2-1.i386
Error Summary
-------------
This one is hard. Firefox is not working, 2.0.12 was
under fc7
Regards,
Antonio
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