ibus still broken

[Tait Clarridge]

On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 10:17 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 13:07 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > > I'm just not buying Bill's concept of breaking and never digging
> > out.
> > > 
> > That's your choice, I think Tait Clarridge hit the method to downgrade
> > first, 
> > then rerun the upgrade. In another forum (chat room) someone said that
> > the yum 
> > 'clean' had been used, then upgrade succeeded in fixing the system.
> > 
> > Both of those suggestions indicate that "using only the 'upgrade'
> > command" isn't 
> > the way to get things sane again. If it worked for you, fine, but I
> > still put 
> > Tait's suggestion in my tricks folder, seems a robust thing to do,
> > rather than 
> > repeating the unsuccessful upgrade.
> ----
> it's about the assumption...
> 
> if a yum clean metadata fixes the issue, then it is not an issue that is
> problematic for everyone but only those whose metadata contains a
> package list of updates that won't work...it's a local problem.
> 
> I can assure you that neither I nor most have had to 'downgrade' in
> order to upgrade.

I tried clearing the yum metadata and the problem persisted. I cannot
take credit for the downgrade and then update as I saw it on a forum (or
maybe even in bugzilla), but on 3 of my Fedora 11 systems (both i386 and
x86_64) the clean did not work and only the downgrade and then upgrade
worked. 


> 
> Craig
> 
> 
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