FC1 upgrade from rh8, but running 2.6.7 kernels

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 10 July 2004 12:40, Satish Balay wrote:
>On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Got it, but rpm claimed it was already installed so I used the
>> --force to freshen it.
>
>Force is always bad. You could have done the following to make
>sure you had the correct one.
>
>rpm -q apt
>rpm -qV apt
>
oops?

>And one needs 'apt-get update' before 'apt-get upgrade'. Perhaps
>'apt-get -f dist-upgrade' does a better job - not sure..
>
>BTW: What do you have for 'cat /etc/redhat-release' ?

Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow)

>> And what will the -f option do, the manpages are in an odd
>> location I've not added to my $MANPATH settings yet.
>
>--fix-broken. I've noticed it primarily processes obsoletes (as in
>pine is obsolteted in FC1 - and upgrade should remove pine)
>
I did that, just got done and rebooted as it updated (or downgraded as 
the case might be, I had a much newer cdrecord installed) about 30 
packages includeing a bunch of compiler and glibc stuffs.

It also removed hotplug, eroaster, gtoaster, & xcdroast FWTW.  I use 
k3b, safelu hidden away in /root/kde3.whatever anyway.  It didn't 
seem to be doing anything to my 3 pango installs either (I didn't see 
any messages re that go by).

>you could do google on 'man apt-get'

I have the $MANPATH fixed now.

>> [root at coyote dlds-rpms]# apt-get update
>> Get:1 http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/i386 release [1174B]
>> Fetched 1174B in 0s (1849B/s)
>> Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/i386/os pkglist
>
>you have bad listing in sources.list

I found that, and fixed it from freshrpms.net's list.
>
>> [root at coyote etc]# ls -lR apt*
>> apt:
>> total 32
>> -rw-rw-r--  1 root root  690 Mar  4 15:35 apt.conf
>> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Apr 30 12:56 apt.conf.d
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  150 Apr 30 12:49 rpmpriorities
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1854 Apr  8 07:22 sources.list
>> -rw-rw-r--  1 root root 1812 Apr 25  2003 sources.list~
>> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Apr 30 12:56 sources.list.d
>> -rw-rw-r--  1 root root 2339 Apr 30 12:33 sources.list.rpmnew
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  146 Sep 27  2002 vendors.list
>
>Since sources.list was modified - it wasn't updated when you
> reinstalled apt. You could do: mv sources.list.rpmnew sources.list
>(alternatively reinstall apt completely)
>rpm -e apt
>ls -R /etc/apt
>rm -rf /etc/apt
>rpm -ivh apt...rpm
>
>I'm guesing you did 'yum update' instead of 'yum upgrade' to upgrade
> to FC1 from RHL9 - hence some of these issues..

Actually I did the upgrade from a rh8 install, using the FC1 cd's I'd 
dld and burnt.

All this didn't fix yum though, its still doing this:
[root at coyote root]# yum update
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 22, in ?
    import yummain
  File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 31, in ?
    import yumcomps
  File "/usr/share/yum/yumcomps.py", line 4, in ?
    import comps
  File "/usr/share/yum/comps.py", line 5, in ?
    import libxml2
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/libxml2.py", line 1, in ?
    import libxml2mod
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/libxml2mod.so: undefined 
symbol: xmlByteConsumed
[root at coyote root]#

Sigh...

I built kde 3.2.3 using konstruct, and the last "cvs up -dP" about 10 
days ago broke that so bad that I'm back on kde-3.2.0, 3.2.3 won't 
even init anymore, and it won't build either.  Thank to intuition, 
the last time I formatted and reinstalled, I gave root 10Gb to play 
in, so I can put the whole kde install in /root/kde3.2 
or /root/kde3.2.3 & all I have to do to switch is reset the env 
stuffs in /root/.bashrc, exit x, logout and back in and restart 
startx.

Just for giggles & grins, whats the md5sum on your libxml2mod.so?  
Here its:
001cfb1b9fc59a4adad7e14f82034aee  /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/libxml2mod.so


>Satish

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Additions to this message made by Gene Heskett are Copyright 2004, 
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