> If you're going to be doing preupgrades, please: > 1) use preupgrade-1.1.0 (in updates-testing right now), and > 2) don't bother going from F9->F10->F11. Just go straight to 11/Rawhide. Just to clarify: I went from F9 to F10 when F10 came out using preupgrade. I'm now attempting to go from F10 to F11/Rawhide. Here are some versions, which I should have included (sorry!): createrepo-0.9.6-3.fc10.noarch yum-3.2.22-5.fc10.noarch preupgrade-1.1.0-1.fc10.noarch rpm-4.6.0-2.fc10.x86_64 Basically, I should be up to date with F10 updates-testing. > That's odd. It looks like createrepo failed. But notice the > "generate_repodata_f9" line there - if your system is F10, why is it > using F9 createrepo? I have no idea.... I only have the above package installed, and only /usr/bin/createrepo. Weird. > Try upgrading createrepo (and preupgrade!) and try it again. You should > also update your system and run 'package-cleanup --problems' to make > sure your system has the right packages. The old preupgrade (1.0.x) > didn't install updates etc. so it sometimes fails to upgrade packages > that need upgrading. package-cleanup reported no problems found. > > I have picasa 3.x installed, and probably some other external > > packages; could they be causing the crash? > > Possibly. It looks like createrepo is having trouble handling some > non-UTF8 data from some of your packages. Probably your createrepo > package is old and just a bit buggy. > > If you were using preupgrade-1.1.0 it could possibly be due to > misbehaving packages in a third-party repo. But you didn't mention that, > so it's probably not the problem. I guess that possibility is back in the running.... > > If preupgrade doesn't > > work, I may either try to upgrade via yum after release or burn a > > disk. TIA! > > Please, do yourself a favor and do *not* yum upgrade. > > If you decide to ignore me and do it anyway, do *NOT* run yum from a > terminal in X. Run it in a 'screen' session, or from a virtual terminal, > or something like that. If the terminal crashes mid-upgrade - and there > are known bugs that will cause that! - your system will be a broken > half-upgraded mess of duplicate and/or missing packages. > > Seriously. Yum upgrades on a running system are not safe. Be very > careful with them. Thanks for the warning. I've done just that several times, since maybe around FC4. I guess I was lucky! If it comes to it, I will do an upgrade via DVD. -- Reid Don Marquis - "Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday." - http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/d/don_marquis.html -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
