can you help me with fedora I'm just starting to learn fedora and i have 9 already thanks Kim ---- Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Douglas Otis writes: > > > Is there a simple way out, other than depending upon backups > > working? I have been doing upgrades in this manner since Fedora 2. > > This is the first time an upgrade resulted in such a puzzle. Is there > > something about the number 9 and desktop versions from RH? > > It would seem so. I think only one of my machines had an event-free upgrade > from F8 to F9. All the other ones broke. Some, rather horridly. > > > Should I attempt to install the .fc9 versions of phython? > > > > Advice would be appreciated, to help void making this a worse mess. > > If you can boot to a root shell, run 'rpm --rebuilddb' to make sure that > your rpm database is not damaged. Then, mount an F9 install disk. Make sure > that glibc and rpm are upgraded, first, then grub and initrd rpms. Then, rpm > -i the F9 kernel, and reboot. After rebooting, remount the F9 install disk, > go back into the packages subdirectory, then try running rpm -UvhF *.rpm, > and see what happens. > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
