[SOLVED] Upgrade FC10 to FC11 failed: left yum/rpm unusable

unSpawn · 06-29-2009, 03:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Doug Hutcheson

The attempt to upgrade the half-baked system did not work - perhaps I pushed the wrong button. I now have FC11 running - looks good. Let me know if I can help by running FC11 tools over my backup of the half-bake!

...well, that's me being net-dead for the past few days... Good to see you got F11 running OK.

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Originally Posted by Doug Hutcheson

Now to find where my Firefox bookmarks and Evolution mail archives have gone ... !

Upgrading shouldn't concern/touch files in /home. Anyway. You did make a backup, right?..

NukeRpm · 08-09-2009, 07:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Doug Hutcheson

This is what I get:

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# rpm --rebuilddb
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30975) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 -  (-30975)

Doug

Camaraderie calls, I have a Lenovo T61 too. Here's how I did it:
http://alien.dowling.edu/~rohit/fedora.html

Hope this is of help to someone.