On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 10:13:27PM -0500, Bill Mills-Curran wrote:
I just upgraded to FC4 from FC3 and I had some troubles that should not have happened. My FC3 system was current with updates, and I used downloaded ISO's from fedora. The problem was that many of the FC3 packages were more up to date than the FC4 packages, so the upgrade did not install them. This included the kernel. I felt lucky that I had a workable system.
This this is a known problem. glibc in FC3 was updated to one newer than any available glibc for FC4, causing most of the system to not upgrade.
Running up2date did not help -- I was still in an FC3 system (kind of).
Try using 'yum update' instead. up2date is not really being maintained as the way forward, and it isn't beat on as heavily as yum. Also, try first removing all old kernels, leaving just the newest (2.6.12-1.1381_FC3), and manually downgrade glibc to the latest FC4 one.
I feel lucky that I didn't brick my system. What did I do wrong? This must be a common occurance. I have another system that I need to upgrade, but I don't want it to go like this. What's a better way?
Yeah, the maintainer of the glibc package doesn't think this is important enough to fix right away: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=172823 It seems that the Fedora developers now recommend re-installs as opposed to upgrades, which is a shame since Fedora Core and Red Hat Linux before it were always known for their stellar upgradeability. Hopefully with the formation of the Fedora Foundation, more and more of Fedora Core itself will be community-maintained, where people who care about such things as upgradeability can make sure that goal is maintained.