after upgrade to f12

[terry]

i upgrade on a dell b1110 that has f10 for awhile , then f11. using the 
upgrade to f12 cd from the fedora site. i had trouble with the screen 
last night but seems to have mysteriously disappered over night. one 
caveat left with  me was the need to update after rebooting. no such 
thing. nothing to update. using yum update gets this .....  libss.so.8 
cannot open shared object file, something about python 2.6.2 and gcc 
4.4.1.      rpm -i libssl.so.8 gets me ...opening failed.
a trip to duke edu says things about this problem not being an error 
with the lib but something to do with python.
their suggestion to type python and at the prompt type... import yum. 
then the error message is libssl.so.8.
trying yum, rpm and the gui for updates leaves me with the feeling i do 
not have a way to update.  Any suggestions?

[Roger]

On 04/20/2010 06:09 AM, terry wrote:
> i upgrade on a dell b1110 that has f10 for awhile , then f11. using the
> upgrade to f12 cd from the fedora site. i had trouble with the screen
> last night but seems to have mysteriously disappered over night. one
> caveat left with  me was the need to update after rebooting. no such
> thing. nothing to update. using yum update gets this .....  libss.so.8
> cannot open shared object file, something about python 2.6.2 and gcc
> 4.4.1.      rpm -i libssl.so.8 gets me ...opening failed.
> a trip to duke edu says things about this problem not being an error
> with the lib but something to do with python.
> their suggestion to type python and at the prompt type... import yum.
> then the error message is libssl.so.8.
> trying yum, rpm and the gui for updates leaves me with the feeling i do
> not have a way to update.  Any suggestions?

I had similar problem with both Fedora 12 and 13.
I believe it's a problem with a file that is part of the standard 
upgrade process and occurs after the kernel is updated first time.
I gave up on Fedora 12 and reinstalled Fedora 13, manually yum installed 
files as they were requested for each application I installed, rebooted 
and tried each app. There were no indicative or helpful reports in the 
error logs.
The Fedora 13 iso reported python errors on installation but since 
updating and upgrading a bit at a time the problem seems to have gone, 
It reported python script errors but after updating python last thing, 
that seems to have gone away.
With F13 but there is a printing problem with some printers but 
otherwise it's fine,  it runs Scribus, Blender, gimp and other apps
More testing as time permits.
Roger

[Mark LaPierre]

On 04/19/2010 04:09 PM, terry wrote:
> i upgrade on a dell b1110 that has f10 for awhile , then f11. using the
> upgrade to f12 cd from the fedora site. i had trouble with the screen
> last night but seems to have mysteriously disappered over night. one
> caveat left with  me was the need to update after rebooting. no such
> thing. nothing to update. using yum update gets this .....  libss.so.8
> cannot open shared object file, something about python 2.6.2 and gcc
> 4.4.1.      rpm -i libssl.so.8 gets me ...opening failed.
> a trip to duke edu says things about this problem not being an error
> with the lib but something to do with python.
> their suggestion to type python and at the prompt type... import yum.
> then the error message is libssl.so.8.
> trying yum, rpm and the gui for updates leaves me with the feeling i do
> not have a way to update.  Any suggestions?

Try

# yum install openssl

to provide the missing libss.so.8.

[Michal]

> > using yum update gets this .....  libss.so.8
> > cannot open shared object file, something about python 2.6.2 and gcc
> > 4.4.1.      rpm -i libssl.so.8 gets me ...opening failed.
> > a trip to duke edu says things about this problem not being an error
> > with the lib but something to do with python.
> > their suggestion to type python and at the prompt type... import yum.
> > then the error message is libssl.so.8.
> > trying yum, rpm and the gui for updates leaves me with the feeling i do
> > not have a way to update.  Any suggestions?
>
> Try
>
> # yum install openssl
>
> to provide the missing libss.so.8.

I had this very same problem and was all to do with creating some new
sym links, you will see there are others there. I had this with ssl and
a few others, but you will get there. If I remember correctly it's
simply a matter ln -s libssl.so.8 libssl.so.X where x being the version
installed. Don't quote me on that but that should get you started. With
upgrades prepare to do a bit of digging and tidying to resolve problems