Gnome won't start after upgrade to FC7

[Teo Fonrouge]

On Sunday 02 September 2007 10:40:36 am Edward DeMeulle wrote:
> On 9/2/07 03:51, Teo Fonrouge wrote:
> > On Sunday 02 September 2007 01:48:17 am Edward DeMeulle wrote:
> >> On 9/1/07 09:02, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> >>> Boot into run level 3 or 4, then run 'yum update'. There are about
> >>> 22GB worth of updates to Fedora 7, already. There is a known bug in
> >>> esound that does that, fixed several months ago.
> >>
> >> All I get when I run yum update is this:
> >> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> >> Setting up Upgrade Process
> >> Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: updates
> >>
> >> yum repolist:
> >> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> >> repo id              repo name                                 status
> >> core                 Fedora Core 6 - i386                      enabled
> >> extras               Fedora Extras 6 - i386                    enabled
> >> fedora               Fedora 6 - i386                           enabled
> >> updates              Fedora 6 - i386 - Updates                 enabled
> >>
> >> Apparently, the upgrade didn't revise the $releasever. Does anyone know
> >> where yum picks that up?
> >
> > What says `rpm -q fedora-release '  ?
> >
> >
> > Anyway, you can install the fedora-release package version F7 with the
> > following (please, note that is all a single command line):
> >
> > rpm -Uvh
> > ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/
> >os/Fedora/fedora-release-7-3.noarch.rpm
> > ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/
> >os/Fedora/fedora-release-notes-7.0.0-1.noarch.rpm
>
> I tried both, results below:
> [root at troll ~]# rpm -q fedora-release
> fedora-release-6-4
> fedora-release-7-3
> [root at troll ~]# rpm -Uvh
> ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os
>/Fedora/fedora-release-7-3.noarch.rpm
> ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os
>/Fedora/fedora-release-notes-7.0.0-1.noarch.rpm Retrieving
> ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os
>/Fedora/fedora-release-7-3.noarch.rpm Retrieving
> ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os
>/Fedora/fedora-release-notes-7.0.0-1.noarch.rpm Preparing...               
> ########################################### [100%]
>         package fedora-release-notes-7.0.0-1 is already installed
>         package fedora-release-7-3 is already installed
>
> Is is 'normal' for rpm to report two releases?

It depends on how you did the upgrade.

In fact, I have some FC6 boxes around that had been upgraded across all fedora 
releases since FC1, only by replacing the current 'fedora-release' package 
with the new release one.

In your case, you need to remove the fedora-release-6-4 package, after that 
send a 'yum clean all' and then a 'yum update kernel', then verify that you 
have the new kernel installed and dont' remove the old one for the momment.


best regards

Teo Fonrouge