Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
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
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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.
Well, I did say "sudo preupgrade". Maybe that is not enough. And I was running X11.
What does running "pre-upgrade-cli" do when run from a root account?
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm just running preupgrade-cli Rawhide and hundreds of packages are being listed for updating - an amazing mixture of fc7, fc10 and fc11 files. Total download size: 1.9GB. I can't believe this will work but I'll try it ... there are 1661 transactions being made ...
I tried this earlier (before F10 was released) and all attempts failed due to conflicts.