Am 05.06.2013 20:08, schrieb Beartooth:
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)
this is clearly a F17 and most likely someone enabled the rawhide repo to clutter the setup
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
*wow* do *not* skip-broken in case of *dist-upgrades*
this is the way to go in doubt and *not* "yum update" http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum#Fedora_17_-.3E_Fedo...