On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Casimiro de Almeida Barreto <casimiro.barreto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Same here. > > Upgraded from Fedora 14 to Fedora 15 from DVD using "default procedure". > > It seems that something is broken in rpmdb updating (broken > dependencies? broken cleaning procedure?). What I noticed is that lots > of rpmdb registers kept pointing to fc14 stuff and things like > libxxxyyyzzz is needed for aaa.fc14.xxx and even aaa.fc13.xxx (in fact, > there were zombie dependencies dating back to fc12). > > I had to do all the "cleaning" by hand. That involved installing > individual packages, removing and re-installing some packages, ... a > procedure that consumed something around 8 (working) hours, so problems > in upgrading are not trivial for average users. > > Besides, upgrading process didn't upgrade kde/kdm and as the particular > box I upgraded yesterday uses kdm, I had to reverse it to gdm/gnome, > manually upgrade kde/kdm & restart. > > Upgrading doesn't upgrades the themes and I had to do it manually (first > complaint when starting kdm & it claims that lovelock stuff was not found). > > It seems that a lot of old stuff was left in zombie state after > upgrading: +/- 500MBytes "disappeared" from box HD... I'll have to do > some housekeeping to find and remove stray libraries, etc. > > Other nasty thing was that network configurations were lost. I had to > manually reconfigure network after upgrade. I had a similar problem here, but I was able to fix it. Can you post here the error messages given by yum to check whether you are experiencing the same problem I had? Paul -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
