The plot thickens

[glennzo]

So I'm watching the same issues that everyone else with their Fedora 10 installs, most specifically the dbus errors and trouble with PackageKit and waiting until all this is resolved. But the system is working fine otherwise, at least yesterday it was. This morning is a different story. I booted the laptop and went outside for a smoke. When I came back in the Plymouth boot screen was still showing. We should have been at the login screen by now. Only way out was to reboot so I rebooted without Plymouth and watched the errors scroll by. First, apparently Vista (used yesterday) wasn't cleanly shut down, or at least the partitions weren't cleanly unmounted. Errors mounting the drives while booting Fedora Then there was the problem with System Message Bus. Something about Failed to start message bus. No text content expected inside XML element policy in configuration file. Crap! Like I'm an expert there. Also errors starting the HAL daemon and the Avahi daemon. Then the boot process hung. Rebooted into Vista to get rid of the mounting errors and then booted Fedora, 3 times. Same thing. Hangs after Avahi error. Booted Uubuntu, from which I write this post.

This is more of a comment than a cry for help. If it's broke I'll just re-install Fedora. No big deal to me. No, I didn't update the system yesterday. Things were broken, remember. And yum was suffering from dependency errors that I didn't feel like dealing with so I was in a wait until it's resolved mood with that. I suppose that since I've booted Ubuntu I could access the Fedora error logs. Maybe I'll have a look.

Anyhow, anyone else totally broken this morning?

[glennzo]

Bulletin. This just in!: Tried booting Fedora again. This time I tried runlevel 3. That was a success although I still got the same errors during the boot process. I was able to login and manually start X, but I got an error message about the nm-applet failing to initialize and I had no mouse. Then I realized that the system was locked up solid.

[leigh123linux]

Update dbus , grab the required dbus packages from Koji

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/b...?buildID=74040

[niko123456]

what is koji? is it safe?

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by niko123456

what is koji? is it safe?

Koji is the official Fedora build system


http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infras...ojiBuildSystem

[glennzo]

As always Leigh, you come through when the going is tough. I applied your suggestion and all seems well here in Fedora land. Up and running with no boot errors. Thanks Leigh. Much appreciated.

[bart3005]

Yes thanks, saved me

[trailer8713]

I tried to load this on another computer running f10x86_64. It sat on resolving dependances all well for 7 hrs till I killed it. what is the proper way to install I guess clicking download is not what it wanted me to do.
please tell me the secret.
Thanks

[bart3005]

To fix everything up I had to manually update the PackageKit and the dbus packages form Koji.

You do this by downloading the packages from Koji with wget if at the command line and them updating with 'rpm -Uvh'.

So what you can do to make it easy is:
'rpm -qa | grep PackageKit'
Go to http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/ download the packages you need in to a folder by themselves
Then run 'rpm -Uvh *.rpm' in that folder.

After this all should be well.

[trailer8713]

what am I doing wrong?

rpm -Uvh dbus-1.2.8-1.fc10.x86_64.rpm dbus-libs-1.2.8-1.fc10.x86_64.rpm dbus-x11-1.2.8-1.fc10.x86_64.rpm dbus-devel-1.2.8-1.fc10.x86_64.rpm

error: open of dbus-1.2.8-1.fc10.x86_64.rpm failed: No such file or directory
error: open of dbus-libs-1.2.8-1.fc10.x86_64.rpm failed: No such file or directory
error: open of dbus-x11-1.2.8-1.fc10.x86_64.rpm failed: No such file or directory
error: open of dbus-devel-1.2.8-1.fc10.x86_64.rpm failed: No such file or directory

[root@localhost michael]#

[bart3005]

Means rpm can't find the files. You are in the folder that you downloaded the files to? If not you need to change to that path first.

[thewonderer57]

In response to this mess, it made it's way to being the first post in my new blog. Check it out here:

www.linuxsoftwareblog.com

I don't mean to be negative about Fedora, but this weekend gone was not a good one for the project

If you agree/disagree, then post comments under the blog entry....


thanks,

[JN4OldSchool]

Originally Posted by thewonderer57

In response to this mess, it made it's way to being the first post in my new blog. Check it out here:

www.linuxsoftwareblog.com

I don't mean to be negative about Fedora, but this weekend gone was not a good one for the project

If you agree/disagree, then post comments under the blog entry....


thanks,

It is the ONLY post in your new blog!

I disagree with much of your premise, that is my prerogative. Fedora is what it is. Nothing has changed, other than the powers that be being more deluded as to what, exactly, Fedora is supposed to be. Use it if you want if not just walk away again. There are many good distros available, Fedora does not have the market cornered. If you love Fedora for what it is and wish to use it then you should expect this.

Originally Posted by thewonderer57

In response to this mess, it made it's way to being the first post in my new blog. Check it out here:

www.linuxsoftwareblog.com

I don't mean to be negative about Fedora, but this weekend gone was not a good one for the project

If you agree/disagree, then post comments under the blog entry....


thanks,

you were asked not to keep spamming it around, once is enough,

[JN4OldSchool]

Originally Posted by Demz

you were asked not to keep spamming it around, once is enough,

Bet you make the second post in his blog!