Timothy Murphy wrote:
I just resurrected an old computer running Fedora-7. I ran "yum update" and it successfully updated 420 packages, amounting to 850MB. But when I yum-installed preupgrade, and then ran preupgrade, I got the error:
[tim@harriet yum.repos.d]$ sudo preupgrade Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 19, in <module> import gtk File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 76, in <module> _init() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 64, in _init _gtk.init_check() RuntimeError: could not open display
I didn't really expect preupgrade to upgrade this machine to Fedora-10; but why is it offered if it doesn't work?
Are you running as root? Does root have access to your X-server to open windows? (Is X11 even running?) the "$" prompt indicates that you are running as a user.
What does running "pre-upgrade-cli" do when run from a root account?
I tried this earlier (before F10 was released) and all attempts failed due to conflicts.