Re: fedora-upgrade from F17->F18 (mostly successful, but some issues)

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On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Ranjan Maitra
<maitra.mbox.ignored@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> I recently upgraded from F17 to F18. I chose not to use fedup but
> rather I used fedora-upgrade, which is basically a wraparound around
> yum upgrade (from the documentation). Everything went through
> reasonably smoothly except for the following messages:
>
> Font messages such as:
>
>  Updating   : gnu-free-mono-fonts-20120503-3.fc18.noarch
> 1322/3028 Fontconfig warning:
> "/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-0-khmeros-base.conf", line 29: Having multiple
> values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
> Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-0-khmeros-base.conf", line
> 41: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work
> as expected Fontconfig warning:
> "/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-0-khmeros-base.conf", line 53: Having multiple
> values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
> Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-0-nhn-nanum-gothic.conf",
> line 8: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not
> work as expected
>
> and the only selinux-policy-targeted message:
>
>   Updating   : selinux-policy-targeted-3.11.1-67.fc18.noarch
> 1454/3028 libsepol.print_missing_requirements: matahari's global
> requirements were not met: bool init_systemd (No such file or
> directory). libsemanage.semanage_link_sandbox: Link packages failed (No
> such file or directory). /usr/sbin/semodule:  Failed!
> ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
>
>
> Other than that, everything went through fine.
>
> Upon reboot, I did not see the F18 grub splash screen, but the F17 one.
>
> I did not get the SLiM display manager but text. startx gets me to the
> desktop (LXDE).
>
> Other errors:
>
> 1. pcmanfm does not automount disks, indeed, I get the following errors
> when I start it up:
>
> (pcmanfm:605): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: remote volume
> monitor with dbus name org.gtk.Private.UDisks2VolumeMonitor is not
> supported
>
> (pcmanfm:605): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: <data>:1:6:
> Expected a valid selector
>
> (pcmanfm:605): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: <data>:7:7:
> Expected a valid selector error: The metadata does not have a thumbnail
> property error: The metadata does not have a thumbnail property
> error: The metadata does not have a thumbnail property
> error: The metadata does not have a thumbnail property
> error: The metadata does not have a thumbnail property
> error: The metadata does not have a thumbnail property
> error: The metadata does not have a thumbnail property
> error: The metadata does not have a thumbnail property
> error: Invalid MS property section
> calling convert
> '/home/maitra/.thumbnails/normal/79594e24b205982ddb040918b50b267d.png.DWF3QW'
> +matte -thumbnail 128x128
> png:'/home/maitra/.thumbnails/normal/79594e24b205982ddb040918b50b267d.png'
> error: No Zip trailer error: No Zip trailer error: No Zip trailer
> error: No Zip trailer error: No Zip trailer
> error: No Zip trailer
> error: No Zip trailer
> error: No Zip trailer
>
>
> 2. batti gives me no response and the following error:
>
>
> ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on :1.80:/org/freedesktop/UPower:
> dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply:
> Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus) Neither UPower
> nor DeviceKit.Power could be initialized! This can have multiple
> reasons. Here is the error for UPower:
>
>     org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name :1.80 was not
> provided by any .service files
>
> And this is the error for DeviceKit.Power:
>
>     org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
> org.freedesktop.DeviceKit.Power was not provided by any .service files
>
>
> 3. sudo yum *whatever* always has the following:
>
> Unable to send message to PackageKit
>
> I am however able to install and update (and erase packages), most
> functions, but does take forever to get started now.
>
> Any suggestions, fixes?
>
> Many thanks and best wishes,
> Ranjan

>From what i can see F18 seems an utter disaster... i put F17 back on.

james
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