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From: Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:06:10 -0500
Subject: Re: Upgrade disaster F16->F17 (planned to go to F18)
Wade Hampton writes:
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I finally decided to update my main home computer to F18.
It was F16 so I had to use preupgrade to go to F17. After
several reboots it is up, sort-of, on the F16 kernel. I have
had the following problems.
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Any idea on how I can fix YUM?
# cat /etc/redhat-release
Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle)
# yum update
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Error: Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: fedora/16/x86_64. Please verify its path and try again
Any idea how I can fix grub to boot into the F17 kernel?
First, run
rpm --rebuilddb
This will run a consistency check on the RPM database. Then run
rpm -q fedora-release
Your yum error suggests that you have fedora-release-16 installed, irrespective of what your motd announces. If so, mount the F17 install media, go into the Packages/f directory and run
rpm -UvhF fedora-release*
to manually update your fedora-release package to 17.
THANKS: I had not thought to rebuild rpmbuild. I'll try the
manual update of the fedora-release as well when I get
home tonight and attempt to fix this mess.
--
Wade Hampton
Wade Hampton
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