Re: Status of Fedup'ng F17->F18; when in doubt, yum upgrade ...

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On 03/10/2013 03:36 PM, Max Pyziur wrote:

Greetings,

Because using an updates-testing version of fedup left my F17->F18 upgrade on a dual-core desktop in a mixed state (lots of F18 rpms interlaced w/ F17 ones).

For a while the machine would boot in an F17 kernel; while went through a process of 'yum remove'-ing of F18 duplications.

At some point, the kernel went into a panic, and the machine became unusable.

Initially, I tried to do a fresh install of F18; but since there are two disks on the machine, /dev/sdb mounted on /home, the installer kepting hosing when specifying the disk setup.

So, I decided to a fresh 'Minimal Install' of F17, and proceed to F18 from there.

First, I tried fedup (the version that is currently available from updates, not updates-testing); kernel went into panic mode again.

Re-installed the F17-minimal again, and then did a yum upgrade. Buried in the wiki http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum#Fedora_17_-.3E_Fedora_18

there is a reference to a fedora-upgrade script packaged as an rpm. It pulled everything into F18.

So now with a minimal F18 install, I'm adding packages to bring it back as close as possible to its status-quo working state.

Ironically, thanks to Reindl for the link to the Yum Upgrade Wiki page.

At this point, I think that it's fair to say that F18 has been the most challenging of all for me since F2: this fedup experience, coupled with mis-matched release of Postgresql 9.2 and PostGIS 1.5.

Max Pyziur
pyz@xxxxxxxxx

I can only hope that the transitions from F18 to 19....to 20....etc. are a lot less painful than THIS sounds! I had the most troubel going from 16 to 17.,.....but my move from 17 to 18 wasn't anywhere near as problematic as THIS!


EGO II
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