Gnome won't start after upgrade to FC7

[Edward DeMeulle]

On 9/2/07 03:51, Teo Fonrouge wrote:
> On Sunday 02 September 2007 01:48:17 am Edward DeMeulle wrote:
>   
>> On 9/1/07 09:02, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>>     
>>> Boot into run level 3 or 4, then run 'yum update'. There are about
>>> 22GB worth of updates to Fedora 7, already. There is a known bug in
>>> esound that does that, fixed several months ago.
>>>       
>> All I get when I run yum update is this:
>> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
>> Setting up Upgrade Process
>> Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: updates
>>
>> yum repolist:
>> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
>> repo id              repo name                                 status
>> core                 Fedora Core 6 - i386                      enabled
>> extras               Fedora Extras 6 - i386                    enabled
>> fedora               Fedora 6 - i386                           enabled
>> updates              Fedora 6 - i386 - Updates                 enabled
>>
>> Apparently, the upgrade didn't revise the $releasever. Does anyone know
>> where yum picks that up?
>>     
>
> What says `rpm -q fedora-release '  ?
>
>
> Anyway, you can install the fedora-release package version F7 with the 
> following (please, note that is all a single command line):
>
> rpm -Uvh 
> ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/Fedora/fedora-release-7-3.noarch.rpm 
> ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/Fedora/fedora-release-notes-7.0.0-1.noarch.rpm
>   

I tried both, results below:
[root at troll ~]# rpm -q fedora-release
fedora-release-6-4
fedora-release-7-3
[root at troll ~]# rpm -Uvh
ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/Fedora/fedora-release-7-3.noarch.rpm
ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/Fedora/fedora-release-notes-7.0.0-1.noarch.rpm
Retrieving
ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/Fedora/fedora-release-7-3.noarch.rpm
Retrieving
ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/Fedora/fedora-release-notes-7.0.0-1.noarch.rpm
Preparing...                ###########################################
[100%]
        package fedora-release-notes-7.0.0-1 is already installed
        package fedora-release-7-3 is already installed

Is is 'normal' for rpm to report two releases?

-- 
Edward DeMeulle <ed at demeulle.org>