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

[Daniel J Walsh]

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On 01/21/2013 12:30 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> 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!
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>> 
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'
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>> 
+matte -thumbnail 128x128
>>>>>> png:'/home/maitra/.thumbnails/normal/79594e24b205982ddb040918b50b267d.png'
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>> 
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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Looks like you are fine.  I would run fixfiles restore to make sure your
labeling is ok.  And finally reboot.

# fixfiles restore
# reboot

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