Hi,
Start with something like:
yum upgrade rpm yum
When this completes, go on to something else. For the most part, I find myself doing:
yum upgrade a* yum upgrade b* yum upgrade c*
Yes, great advice. I also learned that as an effective way to troubleshoot after going through this. Turned out removing that initial package that was causing trouble was enough to get it going again:
--> Processing Dependency: /usr/bin/update-gdk-pixbuf-loaders for package: libwmf-0.2.8.4-22.fc13.x86_64
After removing it, the box seized again (turned out it was overheating, I think), but I was able to do some combinations of "rpm -e" with "yum --releasever=14 dist-upgrade --skip-broken", and it downloaded nearly all the packages again but eventually installed them all.
I had to then use "package-cleanup --cleandupes" to remove all the old fc13 packages.
Somehow through this process, the grub.conf didn't upgraded with the new kernel and it got screwed up. Had to use dracut to rebuild the initramfs and grub-install to make sure the bootloader was installed.
Now, I have a problem with selinux that I can't figure out. It boots properly in enforcing mode, but won't let anyone login:
[ 25.346263] SELinux: Context system_u:unconfined_r:kernel_t:s0 would be invalid if enforcing
Booting with enforcing=0 enables root to login. How can I fix this?
Thanks, Alex