FC5 - Upgrading failure if dual boot

[Paul Howarth]

antonio montagnani wrote:
> 2006/3/28, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>:
>> 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.
>>
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> i made an yum update in a terminal, (not booting at runlevel 3) and I
> get same errors
> I see in the package list that I have openssh 4.3p2-4, openssh-askpass
> 4.3p2-4 and openssh-server 4.3p2-4.
> 
> What else should I check??

Try reinstalling the openssh-clients package from your install media.

Paul.