Craig White wrote:
On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 21:28 -0700, Paul Newell wrote:
Finally managed to get FC5 upgraded to F9 by forgetting the upgrade and
doing a full re-installation (the thread on 6 -> 9 made it clear I had
to do that if I had any errors).
Even managed to get internet access which I could never do on FC5, so
I'm already ahead of the game.
I got the expected notice of all the stuff that needed to be updated via
pop-up and said "sure" after I had logged in as root to make sure there
would be no permissions issue. It failed with the following error message:
org.freedesktop.packagelist.update-system
auth_admin_keep_always
I tried from the other pulldown (admin?) for update system, got the
window, said update, it did nothing.
I was able to verify that I could get an update by downloading Firefox
3.0.1 (install DVD has Firefox 3 Beta 5) ... of course I couldn't
install it as I could figure it out since it wasn't the "ultra newbie"
Windows "download, click, install" system (since I've never had internet
access on Linux, I know this is another issue I have to learn ... and will).
My question to fedora-list is "what is the org.frredesktop.etc error and
how to I correct so it will work". If I need to go command line and do
it through yum, that's okay ... I just need a bit of guidance on the
process.
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no reason to log in as root to update...the package manager will ask for
root password before proceeding.
I would guess that updates are failing because some process is running
which is blocking other processes from running at this point, perhaps
the best thing you could do is restart, log in as normal and let the
update go (it will take a long time because several hundred packages
have been updated since the DVD release).
Probably best to let update handle updating Firefox too.
Craig
Actually, the only reason I tried to download Firefox manually was to
see if there was any problem getting updates. I noticed Firefox was in
the list the updater wanted to deal with.
Kevin suggested the same thing, log in as normal (not root) and see what
happens. I plan to try this next week
I am a bit curious why any processes would block me as root but not as a
user, but I think it is best to try suggestions before pushing that one.
Thanks,
Paul
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