Two failures after a recent Fedora 20 update...

Michael H. Warfield mhw at WittsEnd.com
Wed May 14 00:17:55 UTC 2014


On Tue, 2014-05-13 at 20:04 -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote: 
> On Tue, 2014-05-13 at 22:56 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: 
> > On Tue, 13 May 2014 16:36:13 -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> 
> > > I'm kind of at a loss here.  I recently (yesterday, May 12) updated my
> > > Fedora 20 laptop (originally a fresh install of F20 a couple of months
> > > ago, no update from previous rev).  I had previously updated it on April
> > > 30, less that 2 weeks ago. 
> 
> > yum history
> > yum history undo …
> 
> > > I get very similar results from liferea.  Initial bitching seems to be
> > > about Javascript and it ends with a java version, OpenJDK messages and a
> > > segfault and core dump.
> 
> > JavaScript != Java
> 
> Oh, I'm very aware of that fact.  The fact remains that both remain in
> common in the backtrace and the resulting error output that hurled
> chunks.  Just as there should be nothing in common between Evolution and
> Liferea, there is something in common that seems to be causing this
> problem.  Determining the common factor is the problem.  The fact that
> neither seem to be updated seems to point to some deeper common factor,
> which is far more disturbing.

> > > None of Liferea, Evolution, or OpenJDK were updated between April 30 and
> > > May 12.
> > > 
> > > Anyone have any idea what the hell has gone wrong here and what I might
> > > do to work around it?

> > Try reverting the last yum update via yum history undo.
> > Then try to reproduce after repeating a yum update of individual
> > packages.

> Excellent suggestion.  I'll proceed with that.

Can't say this gives me a warm and fuzzy...

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Remove           4 Packages (+7 Dependent packages)
Downgrade       39 Packages
Not available  416 Packages

416 packages not available.  Not good.  The revert history is a crap
shoot and could make things worse.  Trying it anyways.

> Many thanks!

> Regards,
> Mike

Regards,
Mike
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