Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING!

[n2xssvv.g02gfr12930]

On 30/05/11 11:06, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote:
> On 30/05/11 09:34, Frank Murphy wrote:
>> On 30/05/11 09:28, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>> On 05/30/2011 04:11 PM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote:
>>>> To anyone trying to upgrade from Fedora 14 to Fedora 15, DON'T EVEN
>>>> TRY!!! I've just tried and have had numerous problems, finally resulting
>>>> in being unable to boot up any kernel version at all, using inittab mode
>>>> 1,3, or 5. In view of this it appears I will have to reinstall Fedora 14.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> You failed to mention what update/upgrade method you used....
>>
>> the Subject: yum update
>>
>> to recover try:
>> 1: boot from dvd\bootcd.
>>
>> rescue installed system
>> when ready:
>>
>> yum --releasever=15 distro-sync --skip-broken
>>
>>
> 
> If only yum worked after booting from a rescue DVD.
> 
> I tried updating using yum in stages, (yumex actually using
> networkmanager). Unfortunately this eventually crippled networkmanager,
> and inittab 5 boot. The later I got round by creating a desktop file to
> and started gui from inittab 3, (to KDE).
> 
> I have updated using this method from Fedora 10 -> 14 successfully. As
> Fedora 8 -> 10 was KDE 3 -> 4 I did a fresh install.
> 
> Currently akmod builds fail on boot, and it eventually hangs. I've tried
> a variety of boot options to no avail.

It also appears the old LVM partition had become corrupted as when
booting the rescue DVD I couldn't see my old home directory. Anyway I'm
going to reinstall Fedora 14, update to latest releases, and then try
again. Hopefully, with this being a standard Fedora 14 it'll succeed.