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

Mon Jan 21 18:30:55 UTC 2013

On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:16:12 -0600 Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh at redhat.com>
wrote:

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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?
> 

I get the prompt back after a while. Now what?

Ranjan

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