Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > Timothy Murphy wrote: >> I just resurrected an old computer running Fedora-7. >> I ran "yum update" and it successfully updated 420 packages, >> amounting to 850MB. >> But when I yum-installed preupgrade, and then ran preupgrade, >> I got the error: >> ----------------------------------------------------- >> [tim@harriet yum.repos.d]$ sudo preupgrade >> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server ... >> ----------------------------------------------------- > Are you running as root? Does root have access to your X-server to open > windows? (Is X11 even running?) the "$" prompt indicates that you are > running as a user. Well, I did say "sudo preupgrade". Maybe that is not enough. And I was running X11. > What does running "pre-upgrade-cli" do when run from a root account? Thanks for the suggestion. I'm just running preupgrade-cli Rawhide and hundreds of packages are being listed for updating - an amazing mixture of fc7, fc10 and fc11 files. Total download size: 1.9GB. I can't believe this will work but I'll try it ... there are 1661 transactions being made ... > > I tried this earlier (before F10 was released) and all attempts failed > due to conflicts. > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
