Broke my system trying to upgrade to rawhide using yum

[Robert L Cochran]

I know this is long after your original post -- but it is problems like 
what you and others experience that persuades me to always install any 
alpha or beta code to a totally different hard drive than the one my 
"working" Fedora system is on. I just tried installing Fedora 12 Alpha 
and I did get a nice runlevel 3 system...which of course is broken with 
respect to X. Luckily I had taken the trouble to pop a spare hard drive 
in my laptop, and put my Fedora 11 hard drive on a shelf for several 
hours. I didn't lose anything and got some experience with the alpha code.

Bob



On 07/13/2009 08:40 PM, suvayu ali wrote:
> 2009/7/13 Horst H. von Brand<vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl>:
>    
>> suvayu ali<fatkasuvayu+rawhide at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>      
>>> Today I finally gathered up the courage to "live on the edge" and
>>> upgrade to rawhide. So I disabled all the other repositories and
>>> enabled rawhide. (Fedora and rpmfusion, living rpmfusion enabled was
>>> probably a bad idea) Then I ran
>>>        
>> ;-)
>>
>> Here I also got an unbootable system, it looks like by cron automatically
>> running prelink(8). The steps here were:
>>
>>   - Got boot.iso from a rawhide mirror (not all carry them!),
>>     dated 2009-07-07 (latest I could find)
>>   - Rescue mode complained there aren't any Linux partitions. Panic time!
>>     But they are there, lvscan shows everything inactive (?)...
>>
>>   # lvm
>>     lvm>  lvchange -a y /dev/VolGroup/LogVol00
>>          ....
>>   # mount<lots of /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol?? under /mnt/sysimage>
>>   # chroot /mnt/sysimage prelink -u -a
>>
>> After the above, I could run yum:
>>
>>   # chroot /mnt/sysimage yum -y update --skip-broken
>>
>> Several complaints about not being able to run %pre/%post later, I
>> rebooted normally, everything works (slowly, but better than not at all ;-)
>>
>> Ran as root:
>>
>>   # package-cleanup --clean-dupes
>>
>> And then did a:
>>
>>   # yum -y reinstall<list of packages with dupes from above>
>>
>> just to be on the safe side WRT packages that didn't uninstall/install
>> cleanly. I'm pretty sure the above didn't catch them all, but...
>>      
> Thanks for your reply, but I couldn't get my box to boot so finally
> reinstalled F11 on it. :(
>
>