RH 8.0 upgrade to Fedora Core 2 - crashes

Rollin Kent carpromos at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 29 21:13:33 UTC 2004


I found it simpler to upgrade direct from RH to Fedora
rather than use the images. A how-to is at
http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraHOWTO; worked well for
me.

--- "Bryan C. Andregg" <bandregg at loopback.net> wrote:

> I am attempting to upgrade a Red Hat 8.0 system to
> Fedora Core 2 using 
> the install CD images from the website. The current
> system is a stock 
> install with most updates (until 8.0 was EOL'd) and
> very little or no 
> custom software or third party software installed.
> 
> During the upgrade everything works until the
> installer displays 
> "Preparing RPM Transaction" at which point the
> installer terminates and 
> the system shuts down. The upgrade log has plenty of
> detail about 
> upgrading dependancies followed by packages to be
> upgraded and ends 
> with:
> 
> The following packages were available in this
> version but NOT upgraded:
> Upgrading comps-8.0-0.20020910.
> 
> The only other errors in the upgrade log all look
> like:
> 
> OMF file [/usr/share/omf/glade/turbo-start-C.omf]
> does not validate 
> against Scro
> llKeeper-OMF DTD:
>
/usr/share/xml/scrollkeeper/dtds/scrollkeeper-omf.dtd
> 
> Does anyone know why the installer is crashing
> and/or how to prevent 
> that from happening?
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Bryan C. Andregg
> <bandregg at loopback.net>
> 
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