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

[Daniel J Walsh]

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On 01/21/2013 12:14 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:04:10 -0600 Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh at redhat.com> 
> wrote:
> 
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>> On 01/21/2013 01:19 AM, James Freer wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Ranjan Maitra 
>>> <maitra.mbox.ignored at inbox.com> wrote:
>>>> 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
>>> 
>>> From what i can see F18 seems an utter disaster... i put F17 back on.
>>> 
>>> james
>>> 
>> 
>> semodule -r matahari
>> 
>> Should remove matahari policy.
>> 
> 
> Thanks, but I get the following (in F18):
> 
> sudo semodule -r matahari libsemanage.semanage_direct_remove: Module
> matahari was not found. semodule:  Failed!
> 
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Ok so it is removed.

semodule -B

Does that work?

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