Upgrade yesterday killed my installation

shmuel siegel fedora at shmuelhome.mine.nu
Fri Sep 25 12:48:04 UTC 2009


shmuel siegel wrote:
> Michal Jaegermann wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 01:38:33PM +0300, shmuel siegel wrote:
>>  
>>> I get segment errors from init[1].  Gdb, on the generated core files 
>>> says that the command was either /sbin/init --restart ......   or 
>>> /sbin/init --rescue.
>>>     
>>
>> How you are getting to cores?  Does that mean that you can boot?
>> If yes then replace /sbin/init by a working version.
>>
>>   
> properly downgrading upstart (the provider of init) is a pain because 
> of the change in audit. So I did an rpm forced downgrade and ignored 
> the audit problems. I can now boot into x. What is the next step
>
To be clear, the old upstart(0.3.11-2) requires libaudit.so.0 but audit 
now creates libaudit.so.1. Making rpm do a forced downgrade solved my 
crash problems, and softlinking libaudit.so.1 to libaudit.so.0 gives me 
a usable system. Time to file a bugzilla entry.




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