I have recently decided to upgrade my old Fedora core 3 machine to core 5. Of course there was no straight transition, so I did the intermediary core 3 to 4 upgrade and it went fine. System booted without any hiccups.
uname -a Linux host1.domain.com 2.6.16-1.2069_FC4 #1 Tue Mar 28 12:19:10 EST 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
when I wanted to upgrade from core 4 to 5, I followed the instructions on the same page that I followed for core 3 to 4 upgrade. But I am having problems.
at this point it bums out. And the troubleshootings says:
Failures generally indicate that a currently-installed RPM has a dependency that cannot be satisfied with packages from the new Fedora Core release. Deprecated packages and packages from third party repositories may cause this problem.
The following generates a list of packages that may need to be removed prior to a successful yum upgrade. $ perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if ((/Error: Missing Dependency:.*is needed by package (.*)$/) || (/Error: Package (.*?) needs.*, this is not available./))' /tmp/yum_upgrade | sort | uniq
command above gives the following output:
hal initscripts kudzu
and troubleshooting text continues as follows:
If the initscripts package is returned, I recommend booting into the latest Fedora Core 4 kernel, removing all previous kernels, and running yum upgrade again.
I have included a reboot between old kernel removal and running yum upgrade. Here is my boot filesystem contents:
# ll /boot total 5763 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63029 Mar 28 09:43 config-2.6.16-1.2069_FC4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 50929 Nov 2 2004 config-2.6.9-1.667 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 19 2005 grub -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1661220 Apr 12 18:05 initrd-2.6.16-1.2069_FC4.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 968908 Dec 29 2004 initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Dec 29 2004 lost+found -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 786855 Mar 28 09:43 System.map-2.6.16-1.2069_FC4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 714266 Nov 2 2004 System.map-2.6.9-1.667 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1598219 Mar 28 09:43 vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2069_FC4
as you can see, there is only one kernel. Yet the yum upgrade fails with the same exact package names and I looked them up in the log file and this is what I got:
grep Error /tmp/yum_upgrade Error: Bad repository file ///etc/yum.repos.d/dries.repo. --> Processing Conflict: kudzu conflicts keError: Unable to satisfy dependenciesError: Package hal needs kernel < 2.6.11, this is not available. Error: Package initscripts needs kernel < 2.6.12, this is not available. Error: Package kudzu needs kernel < 2.6.13, this is not available.
do I need to downgrade my kernel version ? If so, how do I do it ? Or any other suggestions ??
As always, thanks in advance.
________________________________ UNIX because I majored in cryptology...
I have now done 3 upgrade ... but I used the 5 cd from fedora to do this even so I had to clean /etc/yum.repos.d/ from all none "default fedora repo" *.repo copy somewhere else atrpms.repo_keep keep fedora-core.repo keep fedora-development.repo keep fedora-extras-development.repo keep fedora-extras.repo keep fedora-legacy.repo keep fedora-updates.repo keep fedora-updates-testing.repo copy somewhere elselivna-devel.repo copy somewhere elselivna.repo copy somewhere else livna-testing.repo copy somewhere else dries.repo
make sure that all that is left point to fedora core 5 not fedora core 4
then
# yum -y update
If this fails it may also be less painfull to apply upgrade from the 5 fedora core 5 cd
FC5 has started to replace YUM and SYSTEM-UPGRADE-PACKAGES with PUP and PIRUP, and this causes problems when you first do any install from the base CD.
I have tried doing online updates in the way you describe and have found that, almost without exception you have to run the rpm -U several imes in order for it to resolve all the dependancies, and also that using the extra "--aid" flag can help.
I would still recommend that you download the ISO's to CD/DVD, and boot from it to do the upgrade, as this is must cleaner and easier.
Jean-Pierre, here is the screen capture from repos directory manipulations and subsequent attempt of yum -y update:
#cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ # ll total 36 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10 Apr 12 17:58 dries.repo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 840 Mar 14 15:20 fedora-core.repo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1549 Mar 14 15:20 fedora-development.repo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 780 Mar 14 15:20 fedora-extras-development.repo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 763 Mar 14 15:20 fedora-extras.repo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 486 Mar 14 15:20 fedora-legacy.repo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 790 Mar 14 15:20 fedora-updates.repo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 865 Mar 14 15:20 fedora-updates-testing.repo # mv dries.repo ~mburslan # ll total 28 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 840 Mar 14 15:20 fedora-core.repo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1549 Mar 14 15:20 fedora-development.repo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 780 Mar 14 15:20 fedora-extras-development.repo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 763 Mar 14 15:20 fedora-extras.repo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 486 Mar 14 15:20 fedora-legacy.repo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 790 Mar 14 15:20 fedora-updates.repo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 865 Mar 14 15:20 fedora-updates-testing.repo #yum -y update Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories core 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 249 kB 00:07 updates : ################################################## 805/805 Added 284 new packages, deleted 0 old in 6.61 seconds primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 1.0 MB 00:02 extras : ################################################## 2966/2966 Added 467 new packages, deleted 121 old in 14.78 seconds Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package expat.i386 0:1.95.8-8.2 set to be updated ---> Package tux.i386 0:3.2.18-4.2.1 set to be updated ... ... long list of similar output lines deleted for space saving ... ...
and the process got hung for longer than 2 hours and I killed it.
Andrew, downloading ISO's and burning them to CDs to upgrade is always on my mind as a last resort. Right now, I am trying all possible non-hard-media involving ways.
Thanks all but I am still at a stand still. Any further advice is greatly appreciated.
________________________________ UNIX because I majored in cryptology...
I just did an upgrade within RH 4 from update2 to update3 with Vitaly's method.
It worked out relatively well.
I'd kind of back up my custom configuration at this point, install FC 5 and then reinstall applications and customizations.
Would you trust a system to do any serious work after what this one has been through? I would not.
SEP
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It will take a long time to do this Using yum, that is the way I did it I had to use ^C once or twice "this does no kill yum just make it look at next mirror... a rought way to make it skippe slow system', but got there in the end.
As I mention in previous note, I still thing that if this fails for you the best is to down load cd to do this, mind you you still have to yum -y update after that and that also will take a very long time !.
Downloading rpm localy has that advantage that you can use a system "nearby/fast" to do downloads, then install.. then a very last yum update for the very latest.
...SEP is also right that having had all theses hardship during upgrade , you should be carefull when you use this after that... probably lots of monitoring and tweaking will be needed.
Allright, I am willing to try Vitaly's suggestion but despite my googling, I could not find any details about how to proceed that way, i.e., how will I know what RPMs I need to download to a local directory and where to download them from ?
________________________________ UNIX because I majored in cryptology...
I'd download the FC5 iso and put it on an NFS share.
then mount -o loop hostname:/share/FC5-DVD.iso
From there you have access to all the rpm's without actually using the diskspace and can proceed with the install.
You can't do a rpm -Uvh *.rpm or rpm -Fvh.
You take a step by step approach, upgrade the kernel then some major applications. It will take you a few tries to deal with dependencies, but it is definitely doable.
There is not really documentation on this appraoch.
The other approach would be a yum upgrade.
Install yum from the internet or FC5 DVD and then to a yum upgrade *
That will upgrade the entire system.
SEP
Steven E Protter Owner of ISN Corporation http://isnamerica.com http://hpuxconsulting.com Sponsor: http://hpux.ws Twitter: http://twitter.com/hpuxlinux Founder http://newdatacloud.com
I know it's probably to late but I found this while roaming around and maybe it is useful, I have not tried this ! method it seem a little long but then it give you a DVD with the latest updated Fedora core rpm 's
