Fedup from 18 to 19, fingers crossed

David dgboles at gmail.com
Mon Jul 22 01:03:19 UTC 2013


On 7/21/2013 8:51 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> Anyone selling "I survived fedup" t-shirts?
> 
> Anyway, the saga is over... Had to boot to a F19 install dvd in rescue
> mode, chrooted into my system, yum didn't work (no libffi.so.6, I assume
> I had .5).
> 
> Tried using yum from the DVD w/ --installroot to /mnt/sysimage...
> 
> yum was there but couldn't import the python module yummain (or whatever
> it's called) which brings up the point. Isn't a functional yum kinda
> important as a tool to rescue your system?
> 
> got libffi installed with rpm -r /mnt/sysimage and a few other things to
> get a mostly working yum in the chroot...
> 
> yum update / distro-sync
> 
> package-cleanup --problems showed a bunch of unsatisfied dependencies
> but I couldn't find a way to get package-cleanup or yum to handles these
> automatically (that would be nice)
> 
> manually installed dependencies or just yum reinstalled the parent
> app... Problems gone! (mostly)
> 
> F18 kernel was newer than F19 and caused my system to continuously
> reboot after partially loading
> 
> yum erase F18 kernel, yum install F19 kernel
> 
> Now it works! Whew, I'm glad that's over
> 
> Richard
> 
> 



I am happy for you. I have no idea just why you had these troubles. I
did three updates, one desktop machine and two very different laptops,
and I had absolute;y no problems.



-- 

  David


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