fedora 8

hDUQUE · 06-10-2008, 10:22 AM

hi guys,
i have freshly installed fc8 and i am getting some problems when it tries to install the updates from the fedora-updates web site.

what happens is that fedora download all the updates from the site (about 700) but makes an error when intalling them and STOPS ... " an error occurred when trying to install updates ." but i don know which error it was.

How can i check it ?
how can i continue the upgrading process without downloading all the stuff again?
is fc8 really a stable version?

thanks in advance

hector

forrestt · 06-10-2008, 10:31 AM

Yum should have cached everything it downloaded. If you were using the GUI to update, try it from a terminal instead. To do that, open a terminal and do the following:

If you have configured sudo:

Code:

> sudo yum update

If you have not configured sudo, or don't know what sudo is:

Code:

> su -
Password: *********   <-- NOTE: this is the root password, not your own.
[root@localhost ~]# yum update
.
.
.
[root@localhost ~]# exit

Yum should display any errors it encounters. If it does, post them back here.

HTH

Forrest

hDUQUE · 06-10-2008, 10:12 PM

i did a "yum update" command and yum ooes into a infinite loop processing this dependency:

Code:

--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Running transaction check
---> Package muine.i386 0:0.8.8-3.fc8 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: mono(glib-sharp) = 2.10.0.0 for package: muine
--> Processing Dependency: mono(gdk-sharp) = 2.10.0.0 for package: muine
--> Processing Dependency: mono(gtk-sharp) = 2.10.0.0 for package: muine
--> Processing Dependency: mono(gdk-sharp) = 2.10.0.0 for package: muine
--> Processing Dependency: mono(glib-sharp) = 2.10.0.0 for package: muine
--> Processing Dependency: mono(gtk-sharp) = 2.10.0.0 for package: muine
---> Package perl-DateManip.noarch 0:5.44-4.fc8 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.8.8) for package: perl-DateManip
--> Processing Conflict: mesa-libGL conflicts xorg-x11-server-Xorg < 1.4.99.901-14
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Running transaction check
---> Package muine.i386 0:0.8.8-3.fc8 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: mono(glib-sharp) = 2.10.0.0 for package: muine
--> Processing Dependency: mono(gdk-sharp) = 2.10.0.0 for package: muine
--> Processing Dependency: mono(gtk-sharp) = 2.10.0.0 for package: muine
--> Processing Dependency: mono(gdk-sharp) = 2.10.0.0 for package: muine
--> Processing Dependency: mono(glib-sharp) = 2.10.0.0 for package: muine
--> Processing Dependency: mono(gtk-sharp) = 2.10.0.0 for package: muine
---> Package perl-DateManip.noarch 0:5.44-4.fc8 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.8.8) for package: perl-DateManip
--> Processing Conflict: mesa-libGL conflicts xorg-x11-server-Xorg < 1.4.99.901-14
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Running transaction check
---> Package muine.i386 0:0.8.8-3.fc8 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: mono(glib-sharp) = 2.10.0.0 for package: muine
--> Processing Dependency: mono(gdk-sharp) = 2.10.0.0 for package: muine
--> Processing Dependency: mono(gtk-sharp) = 2.10.0.0 for package: muine
--> Processing Dependency: mono(gdk-sharp) = 2.10.0.0 for package: muine
--> Processing Dependency: mono(glib-sharp) = 2.10.0.0 for package: muine
--> Processing Dependency: mono(gtk-sharp) = 2.10.0.0 for package: muine
---> Package perl-DateManip.noarch 0:5.44-4.fc8 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.8.8) for package: perl-DateManip
--> Processing Conflict: mesa-libGL conflicts xorg-x11-server-Xorg < 1.4.99.901-14

when doing it with the GUI it gets an error after download :-(

any ideas ?

cheers,

hector

nbg · 06-11-2008, 03:20 AM

upgrade YUM package ..

decrepit · 06-11-2008, 05:06 AM

you could try updating everything but muine

hDUQUE · 06-11-2008, 10:54 PM

it looks like muine package is not installed:

Code:

yum remove muine
Setting up Remove Process
No Match for argument: muine
No Packages marked for removal

i was also loocking for muine with the GUI and it is not installed.

how can i upgrade yum package ?

cheers,

hector

decrepit · 06-12-2008, 06:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hDUQUE

it looks like muine package is not installed:

Well that's odd I wonder why yum is trying to update it?
Sounds like there is a mix up somewhere.

you should be able to update yum (if it's not the latest version) by
yum update yum
Think there's a dash in there somewhere, maybe

yum -update yum

yes that looks better.

If that doesn't work try excluding muine from the update list, as long as there aren't any other anomalies, that should get you updated.

hectorDUQUE · 06-12-2008, 11:04 AM

thanks for answering ... i ve tried yesterday "yum update yum" but it falls into the same problem trying to update muine. At the moment I am out of town; i will try again by next monday and will post again ....

cheers,

hector

shafty023 · 06-13-2008, 02:44 PM

Just do "yum update yum --exclude=muine*" without the quotes

hDUQUE · 06-18-2008, 10:50 AM

hi guys. i continue getting problems

Code:

yum remove banshee 
Setting up Remove Process
No Match for argument: banshee
No Packages marked for removal
[root@intel duque32]# yum remove muine
Setting up Remove Process
No Match for argument: muine
No Packages marked for removal
[root@intel duque32]# yum groupremove muine
Setting up Group Process
No group named muine exists
No packages to remove from groups
[root@intel duque32]# yum groupremove muine*
Setting up Group Process
No group named muine* exists
No packages to remove from groups
[root@intel duque32]# yum groupremove banshee*
Setting up Group Process
No group named banshee* exists
No packages to remove from groups

trying to update yum:

Code:

Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
Package initscripts needs /sbin/pidof, this is not available.
Package redhat-lsb needs /sbin/pidof, this is not available.

tryin to instal pidof

Code:

 yum install pidof
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package pidof available.

but pidof is there:

Code:

locate pidof
/etc/redhat-lsb/lsb_pidofproc
/sbin/pidof
/usr/share/man/man8/pidof.8.gz

tryng to update everything i get reference from frysk, even excluding frysk:

Code:

 yum update --exclude=muine* --exclude=banshee* --exclude=perl-DateManip* --exclude=frysk*
 ...
---> Package pinentry.i386 0:0.7.4-5.fc9 set to be updated
--> Processing Conflict: mesa-libGL conflicts xorg-x11-server-Xorg < 1.4.99.901-14
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libgcj.so.8rh for package: frysk
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: libgcj.so.8rh is needed by package frysk

well .. there a lot of inconsistencies; do you think is better to make a freshly install ???
where can i get THE LAST fc8 image for installation?

cheers,

hector

shafty023 · 06-18-2008, 02:26 PM

Why don't you just install a fresh copy of FEDORA 9, rather than using Fedora 8?

Error: Missing Dependency: libgcj.so.8rh is needed by package frysk
yum install libgcj-4.3.0-8.i386

No package pidof available.
yum install sysvinit-tools-2.86-24.i386

It honestly looks like you have an incomplete installation of Fedora 8 right now or your rpm database is corrupted. You could attempt to go through and fix each of these issues but that might waste more time than its worth

decrepit · 06-19-2008, 05:13 AM

Isn't there a way to get RPM to refresh it's database?

forrestt · 06-19-2008, 09:54 AM

You can do that with:

rpm --rebuilddb

HTH

Forrest

shafty023 · 06-19-2008, 03:22 PM

If you're going to attempt to rebuild your rpm database first back it up. Please do all of the following as the root user

cd /var/lib
mkdir rpm-backup
rsync -av ./rpm/. ./rpm-backup/.

Then remove the rpm lock files
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*

Now run the rpm rebuild
rpm --rebuilddb

hDUQUE · 06-20-2008, 06:56 PM

i did a rpm rebuild but the behavior continues as above ... :-(

no way ... i freshly installed fc9 and it looks fine .. i am updating all the stuff.

thank you guys ... i appreciate your advices and help.

cheers

hector