On 7/21/2013 8:51 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > Anyone selling "I survived fedup" t-shirts? > > Anyway, the saga is over... Had to boot to a F19 install dvd in rescue > mode, chrooted into my system, yum didn't work (no libffi.so.6, I assume > I had .5). > > Tried using yum from the DVD w/ --installroot to /mnt/sysimage... > > yum was there but couldn't import the python module yummain (or whatever > it's called) which brings up the point. Isn't a functional yum kinda > important as a tool to rescue your system? > > got libffi installed with rpm -r /mnt/sysimage and a few other things to > get a mostly working yum in the chroot... > > yum update / distro-sync > > package-cleanup --problems showed a bunch of unsatisfied dependencies > but I couldn't find a way to get package-cleanup or yum to handles these > automatically (that would be nice) > > manually installed dependencies or just yum reinstalled the parent > app... Problems gone! (mostly) > > F18 kernel was newer than F19 and caused my system to continuously > reboot after partially loading > > yum erase F18 kernel, yum install F19 kernel > > Now it works! Whew, I'm glad that's over > > Richard > > I am happy for you. I have no idea just why you had these troubles. I did three updates, one desktop machine and two very different laptops, and I had absolute;y no problems. -- David -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
