Automatic upgrade - incomplete kde?

[Eli Wapniarski]

On Wednesday 24 June 2009 12:29:17 Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 June 2009 09:51:04 Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> > On Wednesday 24 June 2009 11:35:55 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 24 June 2009 09:00:53 Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday 24 June 2009 10:15:08 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > > > I'm wondering if part of the problem is that I disabled all repos
> > > > > except fedora and fedora-updates.  Those f10 packages are from
> > > > > fedora-kde.  Is the high version number there interfering?
> > > >
> > > > Yes...
> > > >
> > > > You missed part of the magic of using yum to update the system. All
> > > > repos should be enabled as usual. So that you can maintain the rep and 
> > > > package priorities that you have set. Otherwise you could very easily
> > > > break something.
> > > >
> > > :-)  That seems to explain a lot.  A large update is currently taking
> > > : place.
> > >
> > > I'll report back.
> > >
> > > Anne
> >
> > Good to hear. One last thing about the current update....
> >
> > After this one completes, then you should run...
> >
> > yum --allow-downgrade update
> >
> > It does happen becuase of build number from the more recent version is less
> > than the build from the previous version. As such yum would think that the
> > version installed from, lets say Fedora 10 is newer than the build from
> > Fedora 11 and you wouldn't know it.
> >
> Hmm - problem.  "Command line error: no such option: --allow-downgrade"
> 
> I now have a kde install.  There are still a few fc10 packages around:
> 
> google-gadgets-0.10.5-7
> libdcp4client-4.0.0-35
> neon-0.28.4-1.1
> iptables-ipv6-1.4.3.2-1
> ca-certificates-2009-1
> kbackup-0.5.4-1
> GeoIP-1.4.6-2
> libtalloc-1.2.0-31
> compat-db45-4.5.20
> sudo-1.7.1-2
> kompose-0.5.3-13
> iptables-1.4.3.2-1
> google-gadgets-qt-0.10.5-7
> libtar-1.2.11-11
> kipi-plugins-0.3.0-1
> 
> I presume these are the ones that will be taken care of by the --allow-
> download?  (The yum help file doesn't show --allow-downgrade.)
> 
> Anne
> 

Check to see if  yum-plugin-allowdowngrade-1.1.21-2.fc11.noarch has been installed and 

/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/allowdowngrade.conf

has been configured so that it enabled = 1

Also, do you have your other repos like rpmfusion enabled? If not, then enable them making sure that you are getting the right updates.

By the way. Is X finally running?

Eli



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