Preupgrade on Fedora-7

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I just resurrected an old computer running Fedora-7.
> I ran "yum update" and it successfully updated 420 packages,
> amounting to 850MB.
> But when I yum-installed preupgrade, and then ran preupgrade,
> I got the error:
> -----------------------------------------------------
> [tim at harriet yum.repos.d]$ sudo preupgrade
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 19, in <module>
>     import gtk
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 76, in <module>
>     _init()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 64, in _init
>     _gtk.init_check()
> RuntimeError: could not open display
> -----------------------------------------------------
> 
> I didn't really expect preupgrade to upgrade this machine to Fedora-10;
> but why is it offered if it doesn't work?
> 
> 

Are you running as root?  Does root have access to your X-server to open 
windows?  (Is X11 even running?)  the "$" prompt indicates that you are 
running as a user.

What does running "pre-upgrade-cli" do when run from a root account?

I tried this earlier (before F10 was released) and all attempts failed 
due to conflicts.

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