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
> > 
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> > 
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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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