On 07/21/2013 09:03 PM, David wrote:
On 7/21/2013 8:51 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
Anyone selling "I survived fedup" t-shirts?
Anyway, the saga is over... Had to boot to a F19 install dvd in rescue mode, chrooted into my system, yum didn't work (no libffi.so.6, I assume I had .5).
Tried using yum from the DVD w/ --installroot to /mnt/sysimage...
yum was there but couldn't import the python module yummain (or whatever it's called) which brings up the point. Isn't a functional yum kinda important as a tool to rescue your system?
got libffi installed with rpm -r /mnt/sysimage and a few other things to get a mostly working yum in the chroot...
yum update / distro-sync
package-cleanup --problems showed a bunch of unsatisfied dependencies but I couldn't find a way to get package-cleanup or yum to handles these automatically (that would be nice)
manually installed dependencies or just yum reinstalled the parent app... Problems gone! (mostly)
F18 kernel was newer than F19 and caused my system to continuously reboot after partially loading
yum erase F18 kernel, yum install F19 kernel
Now it works! Whew, I'm glad that's over
Richard
I am happy for you. I have no idea just why you had these troubles. I did three updates, one desktop machine and two very different laptops, and I had absolute;y no problems.
It may be an artifact of people who have trouble being more likely to write to the list, but it seems that people who have Fedup problems seem to outnumber those who have success outright with no problems first try. That's probably not the case though.
The issues are probably caused by people who add stuff from foreign repos. How else would you end up with an F18 kernel that was newer than the F19 kernel that you were trying to replace it with? That doesn't happen to all F18 users does it? My money is on NO.