FC5 - Upgrading failure if dual boot

[Paul Howarth]

antonio montagnani wrote:
> 2006/3/28, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>:
>> On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 06:02 +0200, antonio montagnani wrote:
>>> 2006/3/28, David Timms <dtimms at bigpond.net.au>:
>>>> antonio montagnani wrote:
>>>>> I tried to upgrade one of my servers from FC4 to FC5, that is a dual
>>>>> boot machine with Windows 2000.
>>>>> I had a set of CD that passed mediacheck on two other machines so I
>>>>> decided not to carry out a mediacheck on this server.At CD nr.4
>>>>> upgrade stopped and machine was rebooted.
>>>>> In the meantime I burnt a new CD that passed mediacheck, so I
>>>>> re-started upgrading.
>>>>> But when I re-booted the machine the Fedora entry was missing from my
>>>>> Grub menu and only Windows 2000 was available!!! I re-started the
>>>>> installing procedure (it was very fast) and I told to anaconda to
>>>>> modify grup but again I found only Windows2000 entry.
>>>>> I managed to mount the system with rescue disk, but how I read and
>>>>> modify the grub.conf when I am in the shell???
>>>>>
>>>>> What is happening???
>>>> I don't know. Did you get to the end of the installation the second time ?
>>>>
>>> yes, I got to the end of installation.
>>> Is any way to install/modify grub options by installation CD??
>> Boot the rescue CD, "chroot /mnt/sysimage", "vi /etc/grub.conf"
>>
>> Paul.
>>
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> 
> i succeeded to start FC5 by Grub hand instructions, but when I log in
> I get the following message (sorry for the bad translation):
> 
> Session lasted less than 10 seconds.If logout was not explicitely
> requested, maybe that some problems occurred during installation or
> disk full.Try to use an emergency session to try to recover the
> problem.
> 
> /.xsession-errors
> 
> /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your sessionwith wtmp and utmp
> /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running /usr/bin/sessreg -a -w
> /var/run/utmp -x "/var/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h ""-l ":0" "antonio"
> /usr/bin/ssh-agent: error while loading shared libraries:
> libcrypto.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory
> 
> What shall I do?? Re-install might be the fastest option....
> 
> Any comment welcome

That error message seems to suggest that you still have the FC4 
openssh-clients package, as FC5's version of /usr/bin/ssh-agent is 
linked against libcrypto.so.6.

I'd try booting to runlevel 3 and doing a "yum update"

Paul.