fedora-upgrade from F17->F18 (mostly successful, but some issues)

[Ranjan Maitra]

Dear friends,

I recently upgraded from F17 to F18. I chose not to use fedup but
rather I used fedora-upgrade, which is basically a wraparound around
yum upgrade (from the documentation). Everything went through
reasonably smoothly except for the following messages:

Font messages such as:

 Updating   : gnu-free-mono-fonts-20120503-3.fc18.noarch
1322/3028 Fontconfig warning:
"/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-0-khmeros-base.conf", line 29: Having multiple
values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-0-khmeros-base.conf", line
41: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work
as expected Fontconfig warning:
"/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-0-khmeros-base.conf", line 53: Having multiple
values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-0-nhn-nanum-gothic.conf",
line 8: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not
work as expected

and the only selinux-policy-targeted message:

  Updating   : selinux-policy-targeted-3.11.1-67.fc18.noarch
1454/3028 libsepol.print_missing_requirements: matahari's global
requirements were not met: bool init_systemd (No such file or
directory). libsemanage.semanage_link_sandbox: Link packages failed (No
such file or directory). /usr/sbin/semodule:  Failed!
************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************


Other than that, everything went through fine. 

Upon reboot, I did not see the F18 grub splash screen, but the F17 one.

I did not get the SLiM display manager but text. startx gets me to the
desktop (LXDE). 

Other errors:

1. pcmanfm does not automount disks, indeed, I get the following errors
when I start it up:

(pcmanfm:605): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: remote volume
monitor with dbus name org.gtk.Private.UDisks2VolumeMonitor is not
supported

(pcmanfm:605): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: <data>:1:6:
Expected a valid selector

(pcmanfm:605): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: <data>:7:7:
Expected a valid selector error: The metadata does not have a thumbnail
property error: The metadata does not have a thumbnail property
error: The metadata does not have a thumbnail property
error: The metadata does not have a thumbnail property
error: The metadata does not have a thumbnail property
error: The metadata does not have a thumbnail property
error: The metadata does not have a thumbnail property
error: The metadata does not have a thumbnail property
error: Invalid MS property section
calling convert
'/home/maitra/.thumbnails/normal/79594e24b205982ddb040918b50b267d.png.DWF3QW'
+matte -thumbnail 128x128
png:'/home/maitra/.thumbnails/normal/79594e24b205982ddb040918b50b267d.png'
error: No Zip trailer error: No Zip trailer error: No Zip trailer
error: No Zip trailer error: No Zip trailer
error: No Zip trailer
error: No Zip trailer
error: No Zip trailer


2. batti gives me no response and the following error:

 
ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on :1.80:/org/freedesktop/UPower:
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply:
Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus) Neither UPower
nor DeviceKit.Power could be initialized! This can have multiple
reasons. Here is the error for UPower:

    org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name :1.80 was not
provided by any .service files

And this is the error for DeviceKit.Power:

    org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
org.freedesktop.DeviceKit.Power was not provided by any .service files


3. sudo yum *whatever* always has the following:

Unable to send message to PackageKit

I am however able to install and update (and erase packages), most
functions, but does take forever to get started now.

Any suggestions, fixes?

Many thanks and best wishes,
Ranjan






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