2009/7/13 Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+rawhide@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Today I finally gathered up the courage to "live on the edge" and >> upgrade to rawhide. So I disabled all the other repositories and >> enabled rawhide. (Fedora and rpmfusion, living rpmfusion enabled was >> probably a bad idea) Then I ran > > ;-) > > Here I also got an unbootable system, it looks like by cron automatically > running prelink(8). The steps here were: > > - Got boot.iso from a rawhide mirror (not all carry them!), > dated 2009-07-07 (latest I could find) > - Rescue mode complained there aren't any Linux partitions. Panic time! > But they are there, lvscan shows everything inactive (?)... > > # lvm > lvm> lvchange -a y /dev/VolGroup/LogVol00 > .... > # mount <lots of /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol?? under /mnt/sysimage> > # chroot /mnt/sysimage prelink -u -a > > After the above, I could run yum: > > # chroot /mnt/sysimage yum -y update --skip-broken > > Several complaints about not being able to run %pre/%post later, I > rebooted normally, everything works (slowly, but better than not at all ;-) > > Ran as root: > > # package-cleanup --clean-dupes > > And then did a: > > # yum -y reinstall <list of packages with dupes from above> > > just to be on the safe side WRT packages that didn't uninstall/install > cleanly. I'm pretty sure the above didn't catch them all, but... Thanks for your reply, but I couldn't get my box to boot so finally reinstalled F11 on it. :( -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
