Gnome Error in Fedora 13 Upgrade from Fedora 11
 

Hi,

I upgraded my Fedora 11 installation to Fedora 13. The upgrade was successful, but some of the gnome commands are giving strange error.

[saurav@xion] ~ $ gnome-appearance-properties
gnome-appearance-properties: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_utf8_skip

[saurav@xion] ~ $ gnome-keyboard-properties
gnome-keyboard-properties: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/libORBit-2.so.0: undefined symbol: g_ascii_table

All path etc. are set correct.
Any pointers to resolve the issue will be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
Saurav

Was your Fedora11 32 or 64bit? How did you upgrade?
You may have to install Fedora13 from scratch as you're jumping 2 versions.

Yes, even my Fedora 11 was a x86_64 bit. Is there no workaround other than reinstalling from scratch ?

Hi

Not sure of any solution to your problem - on my clean install of Fedora 13 those commands work 100%.

As per post #2, generally upgrading Fedora from an older version is not something recommended, as usually something will break - even the Fedora Project recommends (see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq) rather backing up your system and doing a clean install.

An upgrade install via yum does work, however, on a more customized install (that is not your typical Fedora installation) you are bound to run into problems.

I recommend you back up everything of importance and re-install your machine.

Hi,

Thanks a lot for the replies. I finally did as suggested by you guys. Took backup and did a fresh install. Now everything is working fine.

Regards,
Saurav