Experiences with fedora-10 upgrade

[shmuel siegel]

Upgraded a fedora 9 x86_64 on an AMD 3800 from the alpha dvd. The
upgrade went fairly smoothly except for the following problems

    * Installer reported that it couldn't find the grub boot block and
      advised that I do nothing. Somehow this didn't stop it from
      correctly modifying my /boot partition. I know that it modified it
      and not rewrote it since it kept my name for the windows boot.
    * after some 570 out of 745 modules it tried to update the selinux
      targeted module. This took many minutes with no discernible
      activity. I thought that it had died. There should be some
      indication that it is really doing something at this stage.
    * The kernel install also took a long time but my selinux experience
      gave me the patience to wait it out.
    * After upgrading all of the packages, a message box saying
      "finishing upgrade" started flashing. It wasn't on screen at any
      time for more than a fraction of a second, but kept coming back
      every couple of seconds. Again, looked like something was broken.
    * The reference to the livna repository changed to have a compatible
      version name. But, since the repository is not active, it made yum
      fail.
    * When finished, there were some packages that reported unsatisfied
      dependencies. The most important to me was the nautilus desktop
      patch that enables starting a terminal from a right click.
      Updating the problem packages from rawhide fixed the issues.

In conclusion, I would say that it went fairly well for an alpha
release. But the user experience for selinux definitely needs to be
improved.

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[Jerry Amundson-2]

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 3:28 AM, shmuel siegel <fedora@...> wrote:
> Upgraded a fedora 9 x86_64 on an AMD 3800 from the alpha dvd. The upgrade
> went fairly smoothly except for the following problems
>
>   * Installer reported that it couldn't find the grub boot block and
>     advised that I do nothing. Somehow this didn't stop it from
>     correctly modifying my /boot partition. I know that it modified it
>     and not rewrote it since it kept my name for the windows boot.

In case it helps somebody, by switching to tty4, I could see:
<7>SELinux: initialized (dev sda1, type ext3), uses xattr
<6>SELinux: Context unconfined_u:object_r:boot_t:s0 is not valid (left
unmapped).

jerry

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[Jerry Amundson-2]

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 3:28 AM, shmuel siegel <fedora@...> wrote:
>   * After upgrading all of the packages, a message box saying
>     "finishing upgrade" started flashing. It wasn't on screen at any
>     time for more than a fraction of a second, but kept coming back
>     every couple of seconds. Again, looked like something was broken.

I noticed that as well.

> In conclusion, I would say that it went fairly well for an alpha release.

I fully agree. 1045 packages in my case - not bad ... as a bonus, it
boots, *and* I could login to the X desktop! ;-)

jerry

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[Jerry Amundson-2]

The result of yum update right after the upgrade....
Transaction Check Error:
  file /usr/share/man/man8/ncsa_auth.8.gz from install of
man-pages-3.04-2.fc10.noarch conflicts with file from package
squid-7:3.0.STABLE7-1.fc10.x86_64
  file /usr/share/kde4/apps/cmake/modules/KDELibsDependencies.cmake
conflicts between attempted installs of
kdelibs-devel-6:4.1.0-4.fc10.x86_64 and
kdelibs-devel-6:4.1.0-4.fc10.i386
  file /usr/share/kde4/apps/cmake/modules/KDELibsDependenciesInternal.cmake
conflicts between attempted installs of
kdelibs-devel-6:4.1.0-4.fc10.x86_64 and
kdelibs-devel-6:4.1.0-4.fc10.i386

jerry

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[Jerry Amundson-2]

Resolved by
yum erase kdelibs-devel.i386 squid

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Jerry Amundson <jamundso@...> wrote:

> The result of yum update right after the upgrade....
> Transaction Check Error:
>  file /usr/share/man/man8/ncsa_auth.8.gz from install of
> man-pages-3.04-2.fc10.noarch conflicts with file from package
> squid-7:3.0.STABLE7-1.fc10.x86_64
>  file /usr/share/kde4/apps/cmake/modules/KDELibsDependencies.cmake
> conflicts between attempted installs of
> kdelibs-devel-6:4.1.0-4.fc10.x86_64 and
> kdelibs-devel-6:4.1.0-4.fc10.i386
>  file /usr/share/kde4/apps/cmake/modules/KDELibsDependenciesInternal.cmake
> conflicts between attempted installs of
> kdelibs-devel-6:4.1.0-4.fc10.x86_64 and
> kdelibs-devel-6:4.1.0-4.fc10.i386
>
> jerry
>
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>

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