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(a)inf.utfsm.cl>:
> suvayu ali<fatkasuvayu+rawhide(a)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. :(