On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 10:33 -0600, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
i've been having all sorts of sporadic problems where yum
won't install
new updates ... because of supposed dependencies. I wondered if that has
contributed to my problem with ACPI all of a sudden generating tens of
megabytes of syslog entries about my laptop screen.
A "yum list" of all installed packages turned up about 100 packages that
appear to be left over from FC3 ... and hadn't been deleted in the FC4
upgrade (there were 100 packages that had both an earlier version and a
later version). Manually going thru all 100 and deleting the earlier
version seems to have eliminated various YUM error messages about not
being able to apply various packages (because of conflicting
dependencies) ... but that still hasn't stopped the ACPI syslog message
flood on my laptop machine.
I think you need to turn off GPG signature checking to prevent some
update issues. A quick search on google for "upgrade FC3 to FC4" gave an
interesting link which basically said that it is possible to mess up:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2005-February/msg01355....
Given the mixed results I'd recommend a clean install of FC4Tx/FC4 over
an upgrade from FC3 to FC4Tx/FC4.
Regards,
Patrick