F17 -> yum -> F18 -> no go

[Michael Schwendt]

What typically/often can be used to upgrade doesn't work yet for F18:

1.) Default install of F17 x86_64 from DVD image without updates.

2.) yum --releasever=18 --nogpgcheck update fedora-release

3.) yum -y update  fails with broken deps in vinagre

4.) rpm -e vinagre

5.) yum -y update suceeds

6.) Reboot. 

Briefly, a yellow message about SELinux not finding a policy file appears,
but the logs don't tell the same:

Sep  8 06:23:35 rawhide systemd[1]: Successfully loaded SELinux policy in 5s 149ms 429us.
Sep  8 06:23:35 rawhide systemd[1]: Relabelled /dev and /run in 130ms 952us.

Then a single virtual console. Haven't played much with this failed
upgrade. There are a couple of suspicious log messages:

Sep  8 06:23:35 rawhide systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit chronyd.service,
ignoring: Unit systemd-timedated-ntp.target failed to load: No such file or directory. See
system logs and 'systemctl status systemd-timedated-ntp.target' for details.

Sep  8 06:23:35 rawhide systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit
display-manager.service, ignoring: Unit display-manager.service failed to load: No such
file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status display-manager.service'
for details.

Sep  8 06:23:35 rawhide systemd-udevd[253]: specified group 'plugdev' unknown
Sep  8 06:23:35 rawhide systemd-udevd[253]: specified group 'scanner' unknown

Sep  8 06:23:36 rawhide dbus-daemon[590]: Unknown username "polkitd" in message
bus configuration file
Sep  8 06:23:36 rawhide dbus-daemon[590]: Unknown username "polkitd" in message
bus configuration file

Sep  8 06:23:36 rawhide dbus-daemon[590]: dbus[590]: [system] Activating via systemd:
service name='org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1' unit='polkit.service'
Sep  8 06:23:36 rawhide dbus[590]: [system] Activating via systemd: service
name='org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1' unit='polkit.service'
Sep  8 06:23:37 rawhide systemd[1]: polkit.service: main process exited, code=exited,
status=1
Sep  8 06:23:37 rawhide systemd[1]: Unit polkit.service entered failed state.
Sep  8 06:24:02 rawhide dbus-daemon[590]: dbus[590]: [system] Failed to activate service
'org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1': timed out
Sep  8 06:24:02 rawhide dbus[590]: [system] Failed to activate service
'org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1': timed out

Sep  8 06:24:02 rawhide NetworkManager[559]: <error> [1347099842.2409]
[nm-manager-auth.c:87] pk_authority_get(): Failed to initialize PolicyKit: (20) Error
initializing authority: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.TimedOut: Activation of org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1
timed out

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Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle) - Linux 3.5.3-1.fc17.x86_64
loadavg: 0.00 0.14 0.22