Yum still not working after updating FC4-FC5 : MORE

[Beartooth]

On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 16:50:57 -0400, Beartooth wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 22:01:24 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> [...]
>> If you have upgraded to FC5 you *should* have a /etc/yum.conf.rpmnew
>> file. This is the new yum.conf for FC5 and should be very small. Get rid
>> of the old yum.conf and replace it with your yum.conf.rpmnew.
>> 
>> You'll have lots of other .rpmnew files scattered around your system too
>> that are worth investigating. Check /root/upgrade.log for details.

cat /root/upgrade.log gets me a vacuous response -- just the prompt back.

> [...]
>> This behaviour is expected because yum.conf is a config file and rpm is
>> careful not to overwrite them. That's why you've got a .rpmnew file.
> 
> [...] so I did a different but I hope equivalent thing :
> ran the GUI search, against the filesystem, for *.rpmnew; wherever I found
> one (all in /etc), I went into the appropriate directory in /etc and did
> "mv x.y x.y.old" followed by "mv x.y.rpmnew x.y"
[...]
> Missing Dependency: libpoppler.so.0 is needed by package abiword
> Missing Dependency: /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth is needed by package xorg-x11
> Missing Dependency: xorg-x11-xfs = 6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2 is needed by package xorg-x11
> initscripts conflicts with xorg-x11
> fontconfig conflicts with fonts-xorg-base

Logged out and back in, and tried running the teddybear with only one box
checked at a time. I got everything except wine and abiword. Trying for
wine alone, I got : 

Missing Dependency: /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth is needed by package xorg-x11
Missing Dependency: xorg-x11-xfs = 6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2 is needed by package xorg-x11
initscripts conflicts with xorg-x11
fontconfig conflicts with fonts-xorg-base

Trying for abiword alone, I got :

Missing Dependency: libpoppler.so.0 is needed by package abiword

IOW, it's wine and abiword that are causing the trouble. Yum update wine
and yum update abiword confirm.

But there's a point I forgot to mention before. The machine where the
problem is is one of three, all upgraded from FC4. The other two are doing
fine. This one was doing fine -- it got the initial updates after the
install, and a couple more. 

The other two both run Fedora only. This one dual boots, rarely, to XP;
and that works as before, too -- I get to XP (It's XPPro/SP2), and that
runs and does the things I still have to do with it -- no sweat.

The other two both get the same results from yum update abiword, yum
update wine, and plain yum update : nothing to do.

So I tried another thing. rpm -q gets releases for both, on both machines,
that end in .fc5 -- but on this one, they end in .fc4
 
>> The new yum.conf file should give you a basic configuration with just
>> "core", "updates", and "extras" repositories enabled. By all means add
>> other repos, but follow the instructions from each repo for how to
>> configure it for FC5. They'll probably add files in /etc/yum.repos.d
>> rather than editing /etc/yum.conf.
> 
> In yum.conf, I see nothing odd :
> 
> [root at localhost ~]# cat /etc/yum.conf [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum
> keepcache=0
> debuglevel=2
> logfile=/var/log/yum.log
> pkgpolicy=newest
> distroverpkg=redhat-release
> tolerant=1
> exactarch=1
> obsoletes=1
> gpgcheck=1
> plugins=1
> metadata_expire=1800
> 
> # PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo # in
> /etc/yum.repos.d
> [root at localhost ~]#
> 
> So here's the repos -- should I go through them all? Looking for what??
> 
> [root at localhost ~]# ls /etc/yum.repos.d fedora-core.repo
> fedora-extras.repo fedora-development.repo         fedora-legacy.repo
> fedora-devel.repo               fedora.repo
> fedora-extras-development.repo  fedora-updates.repo
> fedora-extras-devel.repo        fedora-updates-testing.repo
> [root at localhost ~]#
> 
> 
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Not Quite Clueless Neo-Redneck Power User