Joel Rees writes:
Anybody want to give give me any advice how to proceed before I go and do something really stupid? (The obligatory excuse: It was plugged in. The power splitter has individual switches and I had switched the outlet off while the notebook was powered down earlier in the afternoon. {mutter.}{grumble.})Battery gave out while it was fairly early in the update list. It still (!) boots.I tried yum upgrade to continue and ran out of /var/cache. (Only 2G. I've got to quit lying to myself and just mount 10G on /var. Or maybe I should mount a special 4G volume on /var, but I'm not sure I should trust LVM.) X11 boots, but the screen flashes a lot. USB seems have drivers from F12, but the USB mouse works. Switching to a virtual console blanks the screen and then I can't get back to the X11 session and I can't bring up any console. I can get a virtual console if I grab it before it goes to X11. Hmm. I may take that back, it's giving me virtual consoles now. But thatcrazy re-mapping of the mac virtual context menuSELinux had to relabel the filesystem when I booted it just now. Tried to re-run the netinstall CD, but it does not find a good install, so it only gives me the options to install over the existing filesystem or start from scratch. (Or manually set the filesystem up, which will be my last resort, since I can salvage /home and /etc.) I am sort of considering using the volume manager to allocate 4G to /var/cache and trying pre-upgrade. Scary, since I don't know whether I can trust LVM. Oh. The console tells me it's Constantine, but it then reports kernel 2.6.30.10-105.fc11.ppc . Heh. So, does anyone want to tell me, "Don't DO that!!!" about trying preupgrade?
Step 1: run 'rpm --rebuilddb' to verify that your RPM database is halfway sane.
Step 2: run 'rpm -q -a --queryformat '%{NAME}.%{ARCH}\n' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n'.
This gives a list of packages that were upgraded, but the older package was not uninstalled. Very common borkage when things crap out in the middle of an rpm transaction.
Step 3: it's normal for some packages to have multiple versions installed: specifically kernel, and the gpg-pubkey dummy package entries. Weed those out. For what's left, run rpm -q again to get the version of both the old and the new package, then rpm -e the old one.
Until you do these steps, attempting to deal with your upgrade is just spinning your wheels.
Step 4: grab and burn a Fedora install DVD. Boot it, and tell it to upgrade your existing Fedora installation.
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