Comments on: Upgrade Fedora 7 to Fedora 8 (Werewolf)

By: Ron

Ron — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:03:55 +0000

I upgrade my desktop and laptop using
http://www.ioncannon.net/system-administration/133/upgrading-from-fedora-7-to-fedora-8-with-yum/
can’t say i had any issues. i did however used the software updated from the gui and deselected a couple of program causing issues, like yelp. Other then that it appears to be working fine.

By: Dax

Dax — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:47:37 +0000

I did finally get the yum update method to work. However, I did have to remove several programs (using rpm) that mucking up the works. After about 5 of these, I finally had removed all of the offending programs and the update run to completion. Thanks for this how to.

By: Huey

Huey — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 04:04:31 +0000

The problem I had was with the kmod-nvidia module from Livna.

When the dependency from Livna for kmod-nvidia is resolved, it picks the latest version, 100.14.19-18.lvn8 which is for 2.6.23.1-49, the latest kernel in the Fedora updates repository instead of the released kernel 2.6.23.1-42.

I was able to get past this by using yum to install the kernel by specifying the correct rpm versions on the yum command line.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:03:30 +0000

Apparently it’s widespread. A bug has been opened:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=366641

Not just for the release candidate, but final too.

By: Ludek

Ludek — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:00:57 +0000

I have the exact same problem â€” frozen at 31% during the dependency check,. Yum is not working too :-(

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 02:44:54 +0000

Hmm. I’ve never upgraded with the DVD like that. I assume it uses pup? Pup is a front-end to yum, much like yumex only not as good in my experience.

But something’s up with rpcbind. What do the logs tell you?

tail /var/log/messages or /var/log/yum.log

You could try removing it before the upgrade and just install it again later.

I was having other issues with my o/s during the upgrade. As it turns out, my memory problem was related to an inactive swap partition. Because of that, yum would bomb right in the middle of installing packages. Happened at least 5 times.

So running this:

rpm -qa | sort | grep rpcbind

Showed me this:

rpcbind-0.1.4-11.fc8
rpcbind-0.1.4-8.fc7

I removed the old with:

rpm -e rpcbind-0.1.4-8.fc7

I would suggest giving the yum method a shot. Also, after resolving dependencies, it should go much better for you than it did here (hopefully).

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:24:35 +0000

I had the exact same problem — frozen at 26% during the dependency check, even after 2 hrs in text mode. I will try the yum method also.

By: Dax

Dax — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:30:53 +0000

I also had ran into the same problems with upgrading from the DVD. It freezes during the rpcbind update and will not proceed any further. I hope this method will get me around that. Thanks.

By: kevin

kevin — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:23:23 +0000

Just been trying to upgrade my Fedora 7 to Fedora 8 (via DVD). No joy!

The install/upgrade does not get very far. When it’s on the “Dependancy Check”, it gets a short way then just stops, my machine is not locked up but the upgrade does not progress any further, I have waited for more that 30mins and tried the update a few times, also tried it in text mode – this also stops at 26% each time.

Kev.

By: Jigdo

Jigdo — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:35:14 +0000

You should check this out. Clearly he had more success than you…

http://www.ioncannon.net/system-administration/133/upgrading-from-fedora-7-to-fedora-8-with-yum/