F18 *vs.* yum update??

[Beartooth]

On Sun, 02 Jun 2013 22:17:18 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:

> Looks like you've somehow installed a f18 kernel on a genuine f17 box.
 
	That could be : 

[btth at Hbsk2 ~]$ cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle)

	So I played around with rpm and yum doing the things usually 
suggested when plain "yum update" fails, till I got a plain one that 
completed normally; re-did the download from updates-testing; redid fedup-
cli; got a notice to reboot and did; then tried yum update --skip-broken. 
I think there had also been a yum-complete-transaction in among there.

	Yum update --skip-broken got me a disiplay of lines rushing up 
the screen too fast to read, which literally went on for several minutes.
It ended up with : 

Transaction Summary
================================================================================================
Install                           3 Packages (+7 Dependent packages)
Upgrade                          71 Packages
Remove                            2 Packages
Skipped (dependency problems)  2688 Packages

Total download size: 293 M
Is this ok [y/N]: 

	I assented, noting that most but not all of the lines above 
contained an fc18 term. This time I got : 

Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Setting up and reading Presto delta metadata
warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID 
de7f38bd: NOKEY
Public key for GMT-coastlines-2.2.2-1.fc18.noarch.rpm is not installed
(1/6): nfs-utils-lib-1.1.5-6.fc17.i686.rpm                               
|  61 kB  00:00:02     
(2/6): freetype-freeworld-2.4.8-4.fc17.i686.rpm                          
| 351 kB  00:00:03     
(3/6): module-init-tools-3.16-5.fc17.i686.rpm                            
| 426 kB  00:00:03     
(4/6): qrencode-3.2.0-3.fc17.i686.rpm                                    
|  53 kB  00:00:00     
(5/6): atlas-sse2-3.8.4-3.fc17.i686.rpm                                  
| 2.5 MB  00:00:05     
(6/6): lapack-3.4.2-2.fc17.i686.rpm                                      
| 5.2 MB  00:00:06     
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total                                                            14 MB/s 
| 293 MB     00:20     


Public key for iwl4965-firmware-228.61.2.24-23.fc18.noarch.rpm is not 
installed
[root at Hbsk2 ~]# 

	Cryptography key trouble, of all things! If the display ever 
paused to ask whether to let it install a key, it did it so briefly I 
never even suspected. 

	On a pure hunch, I tried "yum clean all" and "yum update" again. 
That got me the eruptions of busy-ness again, ending with : 

--> Processing Dependency: xserver-abi(xinput-16) >= 0 for package: xorg-
x11-drv-synaptics-1.6.3-4.fc17.i686
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: privoxy-3.0.21-3.fc17.i686 (updates)
           Requires: libpcre.so.0
           Removing: pcre-8.21-7.fc17.i686 (@updates)
               libpcre.so.0
           Updated By: pcre-8.31-5.fc18.i686 (_local)
               Not found
           Available: pcre-8.21-3.fc17.i686 (fedora)
               libpcre.so.0
Error: Package: xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-1.6.3-4.fc17.i686 (@updates)
           Requires: xserver-abi(xinput-16) >= 0
           Removing: xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.12.4-2.fc17.i686 (@updates)
               xserver-abi(xinput-16) = 0
           Updated By: xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.13.3-3.fc18.i686 (_local)
               Not found
           Available: xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.12.0-2.fc17.i686 (fedora)
               xserver-abi(xinput-16) = 0
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
[root at Hbsk2 ~]# 

	I suppose this is progress, maybe, maybe. At least it's not the 
crypto trouble recrudescing. I'll do the yum and rpm attempts yet another 
time, and report. 

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