Upgrade FC3 -> FC4 -> No Love

jcwinnie · #1 24th July 2005, 10:00 PM

Attempting apt-get dist-upgrade using Freshrpms repositories warned me that I could lose system functionality, so I avoided proceeding. Smart, right?

Instead, I got the FC4 CDs and ran upgrade. Guess what?

Oh, it happened to you, too. So, now I have:

No rpm
No yum
No apt-get
No up2date
No love!

All those things about which I was warned came to pass. I am able to log in via console and that is about it.

I notice a new error on startup having to do with rpc.idmapd that may be an indicator of what is wrong.

Also, I ran

Code:

 ldd `which rpm`

The following were NOT FOUND:
- librpm-4.3.so
- librpmdb-4.3.so
- librpmio-4.3.so

Before you recommend a fresh install, please tell me how I can protect the system backup, which is on two other partitions.

jcwinnie · #2 24th July 2005, 11:26 PM

Oh, and I have this system administrator's problem, too, http://fcp.fedoranews.org/modules/ne...16358&forum=23 , i.e., libssl.so.5: cannot open shared object.

imdeemvp · #3 24th July 2005, 11:28 PM

I always recommed to do a data backup such as bookmarks, music, photos, docs, etc and do a fresh installation.

jcwinnie · #4 25th July 2005, 12:47 AM

Hm, before posting this thread, I had read the thread http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=59393 and tried what was suggested to no avail.

I went back; read it again; and, followed the link to the Bug Report 156907

I followed Paul Nasrat's directions at first with no success. Then I made sure that I was pointing to where I knew the specific RPMs resided. Then I followed another key step, i.e.,

Code:

/sbin/ldconfig

It worked.

I still had to remove yum (two versions) and reinstall it, but I now could do so with rpm.
I now am running

Code:

yum update

Which is a much better place than I have been for several days.

While the solution dealt with a bug in an earlier Rawhide version, Ling Li reports that the bug is still in FC4 final, which is what I had used to upgrade.

Note: If you use selinunx, there are additonal recommendations in the report that may help.
Best of luck!

iamroot · #5 25th July 2005, 03:59 AM

I would recommend not to use multiple installation options. If you use Yum, stick to it.

jcwinnie · #6 25th July 2005, 11:39 AM

Well, it qualified joy in Mudville. I do have rpm again. Yay!

I was able to run rpm -Uvh on rpm-libs, but not rpm because of rpm-build and rpm-python dependencies with the latter.

Now I have a more subtle problem, having to do with Apache configuration, something about OpenSSLCertificate missing. I think that is why yum and up2date continue to fail.

Still no apt-get and only console login is possible.

jcwinnie · #7 26th July 2005, 12:49 PM

More qualified joy in Mudville... I got a bigger hammer.

Translation: I forced some things, which I really, really, really, really, really, really dislike doing.

First I made sure that I had a copy of the current gnome-vfs2 rpm along with yum, dbus and hal packages.

Then I temporarily removed dbus and hal with the bigger hammer

Code:

rpm -e --nodeps <the older versions of dbus and hal>

Reinstalled them

Code:

rpm -ivh <the current versions of dbus and hal>

Followed by an upgrade of gnome-vfs2

Code:

rpm -Uvh <the current version of gnome-vfs2>

It also was necessary to remove and reinstall yum. With those forced changes, I regained use of yum and was able to run yum upgrade successfully. Yay!

I also used the same trick with apt and up2date, i.e., removed and reinstalled them, to get them to work.

Nonetheless, my joy is less than unbounded. I have no GNOME Desktop Environment and unreliable KDE similar to http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...ad.php?t=63976 and worst of all -- No Firefox! C'mon, that was a kick below the belt.

After I removed FC3 / FC4 duplications to make apt-get happy, it reports a host of problem including a destablizing one with raidtools. ("Don't proceed unless you know what you are doing," it again warns.) Uh-oh! Wasn't I just there? I know, I'll rely on the FC4 CDs, they'll help me.

jcwinnie · #8 26th July 2005, 05:13 PM

I removed and reinstalled Firefox and have regained use of my everyday browser. I also now have a GNOME Desktop Enviornment, albeit a disfunctional one, after

Code:

yum groupinstall GNOME

jcwinnie · #9 27th July 2005, 05:40 PM

Well, the big bambino is batting two for three now. I have regained use of KDE and got a positive outcome to testing XFCE4.

Gnome remains, in GNASA lingo, a Gno-go. This may have to do with the desktop manager being Metacity that starts a GNOME session on my system. Time will tell. In any case, two users are still in shambles. Wandering around in a daze, moaning "Oh! Gnome is me, Gnome is me."

Otherwise, there is general jubilation in Mudville.