On Sun, 02 Jun 2013 22:17:18 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
Looks like you've somehow installed a f18 kernel on a genuine f17 box.
That could be :
[btth@Hbsk2 ~]$ cat /etc/fedora-release Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle)
So I played around with rpm and yum doing the things usually suggested when plain "yum update" fails, till I got a plain one that completed normally; re-did the download from updates-testing; redid fedup- cli; got a notice to reboot and did; then tried yum update --skip-broken. I think there had also been a yum-complete-transaction in among there.
Yum update --skip-broken got me a disiplay of lines rushing up the screen too fast to read, which literally went on for several minutes. It ended up with :
Transaction Summary ================================================================================================ Install 3 Packages (+7 Dependent packages) Upgrade 71 Packages Remove 2 Packages Skipped (dependency problems) 2688 Packages
Total download size: 293 M Is this ok [y/N]:
I assented, noting that most but not all of the lines above contained an fc18 term. This time I got :
Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: Setting up and reading Presto delta metadata warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID de7f38bd: NOKEY Public key for GMT-coastlines-2.2.2-1.fc18.noarch.rpm is not installed (1/6): nfs-utils-lib-1.1.5-6.fc17.i686.rpm | 61 kB 00:00:02 (2/6): freetype-freeworld-2.4.8-4.fc17.i686.rpm | 351 kB 00:00:03 (3/6): module-init-tools-3.16-5.fc17.i686.rpm | 426 kB 00:00:03 (4/6): qrencode-3.2.0-3.fc17.i686.rpm | 53 kB 00:00:00 (5/6): atlas-sse2-3.8.4-3.fc17.i686.rpm | 2.5 MB 00:00:05 (6/6): lapack-3.4.2-2.fc17.i686.rpm | 5.2 MB 00:00:06 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Total 14 MB/s | 293 MB 00:20
Public key for iwl4965-firmware-228.61.2.24-23.fc18.noarch.rpm is not installed [root@Hbsk2 ~]#
Cryptography key trouble, of all things! If the display ever paused to ask whether to let it install a key, it did it so briefly I never even suspected.
On a pure hunch, I tried "yum clean all" and "yum update" again. That got me the eruptions of busy-ness again, ending with :
--> Processing Dependency: xserver-abi(xinput-16) >= 0 for package: xorg- x11-drv-synaptics-1.6.3-4.fc17.i686 --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Package: privoxy-3.0.21-3.fc17.i686 (updates) Requires: libpcre.so.0 Removing: pcre-8.21-7.fc17.i686 (@updates) libpcre.so.0 Updated By: pcre-8.31-5.fc18.i686 (_local) Not found Available: pcre-8.21-3.fc17.i686 (fedora) libpcre.so.0 Error: Package: xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-1.6.3-4.fc17.i686 (@updates) Requires: xserver-abi(xinput-16) >= 0 Removing: xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.12.4-2.fc17.i686 (@updates) xserver-abi(xinput-16) = 0 Updated By: xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.13.3-3.fc18.i686 (_local) Not found Available: xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.12.0-2.fc17.i686 (fedora) xserver-abi(xinput-16) = 0 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest [root@Hbsk2 ~]#
I suppose this is progress, maybe, maybe. At least it's not the crypto trouble recrudescing. I'll do the yum and rpm attempts yet another time, and report.