Timothy Murphy wrote:
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
...
>> -----------------------------------------------------
> 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.
Sorry, I read too fast and missed the sudo part. B^{
ISTR that under some circumstances X11 doesn't like root connecting to
your server. Check your xhost settings. I was *very* happy when emacs
decided to simulate -nw when the X11 window failed to open between machines.
> 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 ...
yeah, I had the same amount. You will find some conflicts with RPM
versions and the like. I downloaded over 1340 packages for my small
system before it died running the transaction. It would've been better
if those dependencies had been caught before the download.
I tried Rawhide, F-9, and F-8. All 3 had problems. The F-8 one
surprised me as I would have thought that would have been the most
tested preupgrade....
I was running preupgrade-0.9.1.fc7 from updates-testing?
I couldn't install any newer versions due to installation dependencies
(ye olde chicken and the egg problem).
> I tried this earlier (before F10 was released) and all attempts
failed
> due to conflicts.
How did your attempt turn out?
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