FC5 - Upgrading failures (it was upgrade failure if dual boot)

[Antonio Montagnani]

Paul Howarth wrote / ha scritto on /il 28/03/2006 11:45:
> 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.
>
I have by yum update  and I receive a lot of message during installation:

/usr/share/gnome/help/gedit/sv/gedit/sv/gedit.xml parser error etc. etc,

What does it mean??

-- 
 Antonio

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