Hey all--
i'm fairly new to linux and FC, but i've been lurking for a while and messing around with some systems here at home. Anyway, i recently tried to perform "rolling upgrades" to my two FC3 systems, a workstation and a file server that houses my mp3 collection, and backup sets of important data from the rest of the machines in my house. Each has failed, but I got the workstation to go. The server however has some issues. The "core" of the problem is that my yum cache directory got full cause the disk it's on (4gb scsi) ran out of space during the upgrade process. So I figured out how to move the cache dir to the RAID 5 hardware volume i got( a bunch of 18's with lots of free space) by way of yum.conf but now when i do a yum -y update I get this:

I remove the cache dir change from the yum.conf file and the problem remains

I'm not sure *exactly* what this error is telling me but what I gather is that the versions of yum and python on the system are mismatched, so in true hack and slash fashion, i've tried grabbing rpm's from redhat for both fc3 and 4 for yum and python and try to get the two in sync, but no worky. The kernel doesn't appear to be the fc4 kernel, so I think the machine is literally stuck mid upgrade. I didn't want to reinstall cause that means sitting(for at least part of the time) in front of the thing and it's in my crawl space, which is less than comfy. Also, I'm trying to learn and no better learning is acheived than from that of failure. Help, please? TIA

That looks like a fun one. I haven't had this exact problem, but I did have to manually satisfy yum dependencies when upgrading via yum from FC3 to FC4. I think you have the right diagnosis and approach.

Since your python is already 2.4, I'd try to satisfy yum requirements using the FC4 repo first. (FC3 python was at 2.3.x.)

I can't guess what library it isn't finding, but from "rpm -qR yum" you'll need at least these packages (version numbers are from an FC4 system with updates):
yum-2.3.2-7
libxml2-python-2.6.19-1
python-elementtree-1.2.6-4
python-sqlite-1.1.6-1
rpm-python-4.4.1-21
python-urlgrabber-2.9.6-1
rpm-libs-4.4.1-21
rpm-4.4.1-21

If you grab these from FC4 and manually install them via rpm, they'll let you know what other dependencies they need. Should be doable, I think.

jspaar-
thanks, i'll give it a go--having the rpm list helps alot

--chris

ok, cool. I tromped through the packages that you listed, and some were not up to date and some dependant pckgs needed updating, which i did. BUT, i still get the exact same error, so I tinkered around with the rpm command a bit and told it to do a verify all of my pckgs and got a whole lot of "missing" notifiactions, examples below:

missing /lib/modules.2.6.9-1.667/build/arch/m68knommu/platform/5407
.
.
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missing /lib/modules.2.6.9-1.667/kernel/....

i'm beginning to believe that this thing is really far gone and to manually rebuild it is going to (among other things) a lesson in futility. My gut is saying I should really toast it and start over, opinions??? thx

--chris

Well, i reinstalled the os, and all is well, thnaks for all the help

Downgrading to python-elementtree=1.2.6-3.99_1.rhfc3.at solved this problem (I haven't upgraded to fc4 but got this error after some packages were updated, at or around the same time fc4 was being released)