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

Mon Jan 21 18:28:12 UTC 2013

On 01/21/2013 01:04 PM, Daniel J Walsh 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.
>
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I too was going to install F18...but I will wait until F19 or F20 before 
I move forward....I have way too much riding on this laptop working 
properly...and since it's an "old" Gateway....I'd rather not have to 
deal with various problems.....issues...and "broken" things....so no 
"18" for me...as long as there's going to be a Gnome 3.x version for 
Fedora I'll always use it...just not when it becomes too buggy....


EGO II