Completly lost after FC4 installation

[x_terminat_or_3]

Hi all

I have issues

I managed to salvage the /home directory from my old installation and I mounted it as /home in the new FC4
(the /home from FC4 is broken so I changed fstab to not mount it)

I try to install packages but rpm does not work, up2date does not work, and apt-get does not work. I cannot even compile stuff because all the dependencies seem to be missing.

Can anybody please, pretty please assist me in fixing at least rpm. Optionally maybe up2date.


Kind regards



x_terminat_or_3

[Psquared]

Originally Posted by x_terminat_or_3

Hi all

I have issues

I managed to salvage the /home directory from my old installation and I mounted it as /home in the new FC4
(the /home from FC4 is broken so I changed fstab to not mount it)

I try to install packages but rpm does not work, up2date does not work, and apt-get does not work. I cannot even compile stuff because all the dependencies seem to be missing.

Can anybody please, pretty please assist me in fixing at least rpm. Optionally maybe up2date.

Kind regards

x_terminat_or_3

How did you install? Sounds like you didn't get it all? DVD ISO from torrent or Disc 1,2,3,4 ISOs from redhat/fedora? Did you run mdsum and gpg check?

[SlowJet]

Could use some more details about how you updated. Did you varify you are pointing to the develop repro(s)?
1. What is installed - desktop, workstation, all.
2. What is running - http, mysql, ...

Over the last few days many rawhide and evne outside rawhide compiles were made to get things sorted.
yum, up2date, and rpm were all updated 2 or 3 times each.

so first things first - point yum.conf to the devopl repos,

su -
password
root # yum update yum
root# yum update up2date
yum update

reboot

SJ

[x_terminat_or_3]

Yes off course, I downloaded the three iso volumes, and by the way, they are not md5 checks anymore but sha1. So I verified them, then burned them to cd with kd3b. Install went smooth, had to do manual partition though.

Now after a while the home partition got readonly. After restart it tells me it is broken, that reading some innode returns a short circuit or something like that. Not knowing what to do, I changed fstab to skip that partition and to mount an nfs home directory I made as backup

So now I am in FC4, KDE. Just until a few moments ago Kmail was working. Then all of a sudden, I got a black screen, and when I press a key, I find that Kmail is gone. When trying to start, it seems that dependencies are missing al of a sudden.

I'm really at a loss what to do now.

rpm -i kernel-utils#1%3a2.4-13.1.39_1%3a2.4-13.1.39_i386.rpm
rpm: /usr/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libneon.so.24)
rpm: /usr/lib/libk5crypto.so.3: no version information available (required by /lib/libssl.so.5)
rpm: /usr/lib/libkrb5.so.3: no version information available (required by /lib/libssl.so.5)
rpm: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/librpm-4.4.so: undefined symbol: matchpathcon_init


up2date
up2date
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 11, in ?
import rpm
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rpm/__init__.py", line 7, in ?
from _rpm import *
ImportError: /usr/lib/librpm-4.4.so: undefined symbol: matchpathcon_init

apt-get install kdebase-devel
After unpacking 643MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Committing changes...
error: can't create transaction lock
W: Some errors occurred while running transaction

So you see, nothing works!

[x_terminat_or_3]

I basically installed almost everything. (except some if the i18).
Didn't install server related stuff (mysql client:yes)

yum
The yum libraries do not seem to be availableon your system for this version ofpython 2.4.1 (#1, Apr 6 2005, 14:01:51)
[GCC 4.0.0 20050405 (Red Hat 4.0.0-0.40)]
Please make sure the package you used to installyum was built for your install of python.

So since nothing is working, I cannot install the necessary libraries for yum or python.

Need to resolve the rpm issue first.

[x_terminat_or_3]

I gotta go to sleep now.

Question:

Don't you think it's better I try to reinstall FC4? I mean let it erase everything and then do a fresh install.

My home directory is already backedup on an NFS share.


I do appreciate your help

[SlowJet]

Even if you reinstall and update, I think you will hit a wall.
12,534th person to be voted off F4Test island is ...

x_terminat_or_3

your tourch, please.

SJ

[SlowJet]

Well, try try again or mow the lawn.
I know what I would do.

SJ

[SlowJet]

Hey x,

see this post

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...252#post264252

SJ

[Psquared]

X, I have not tried to install yet, but when I looked there were 4 iso volumes not 3.

Also, a lesson I learned from Ubuntu -- when installing on my laptop I connect by ethernet to my router and setup wifi later. That way I get all the available updates at install.

[x_terminat_or_3]

You'r right, there are four.

I decicded to do a clean install and now things seem to be working.

Had to go trough hell to get my kopete work with msn tough!

The alknown dependency endless circle hell.



Thank you all for your help