Upgrading to Fedora 9 from Fedora 8 fails

[Sam Varshavchik]

Douglas Otis writes:

> Is there a simple way out, other than depending upon backups  
> working?   I have been doing upgrades in this manner since Fedora 2.   
> This is the first time an upgrade resulted in such a puzzle.  Is there  
> something about the number 9 and desktop versions from RH?

It would seem so. I think only one of my machines had an event-free upgrade 
from F8 to F9. All the other ones broke. Some, rather horridly.

> Should I attempt to install the .fc9 versions of phython?
> 
> Advice would be appreciated, to help void making this a worse mess.

If you can boot to a root shell, run 'rpm --rebuilddb' to make sure that 
your rpm database is not damaged. Then, mount an F9 install disk. Make sure 
that glibc and rpm are upgraded, first, then grub and initrd rpms. Then, rpm 
-i the F9 kernel, and reboot. After rebooting, remount the F9 install disk, 
go back into the packages subdirectory, then try running rpm -UvhF *.rpm, 
and see what happens.

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