FC5 - Upgrading failure if dual boot

antonio montagnani antonio.montagnani at gmail.com
Tue Mar 28 12:42:17 UTC 2006


2006/3/28, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>:
> 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.
>
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I re-installed the packages and now error has gone.
Tnx a lot

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