Fedora system update error...

[Daniel ~]

When It comes up I get a

GRUB (on my borked drive)

and that 's all she wrote!

[Gizmo]

Hmm......sounds like maybe the grub boot sector got hosed some way.

If you are willing, let's try restoring your backup and running the update again. I'm don't want to try talking you through repairing the grub installation, as doing so introduces the possibility of trashing your current backup if something goes wrong, and I'm not 100% certain of what's wrong with grub.

So, restore your backup, but DO NOT allow it to install any updates!

[Gizmo]

BTW, take your time, as I've got to go check on my Mother again, and I'll probably be out of contact for a couple of hours.

[Daniel ~]

i'll take a few hours to restore, has to be sector by sector...I'll post when I'm back. I hope your mom is well?

[Gizmo]

Originally Posted by Daniel ~

I hope your mom is well?

No, but that is another issue for another time.

[Daniel ~]

As you say, another time.":O}

I'm made whole! How best to proceed pass this sticky point in the ...oh hell am I screwed!? LOL

[Daniel ~]

We have 193 updates pending. I clicked my way to review the updates after loading for a while I recived this message:


"Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: InstallMedia. Please verify its path and try again"

I'll leave this with you until you have time. At one point I did successfully install nearly everything, leaving out Gnome and Gnome pannel.

Also right before it crashed to GRUB, I went back into the System update to see if there remained any updates, there didn't seem to be so I clicked closed and it seemed frozen, so I clicked the x-box and it closed I rebooted and found grub...

[Gizmo]

Ok, first things first.

I'm assuming that you are back up and running on your re-imaged drive that was borked?

If that is the case, then go to a command line and su, then do:

yum install yum-utils

Do NOT let it install anything else!

Once you've installed yum utils, do:

yum-complete-transaction

until there are no remaining transactions, and then reboot and let's see where we are at.

[Daniel ~]

Starting now...

[Daniel ~]

[Daniel@dhcppc2 ~]$ su
Password:
[root@dhcppc2 Daniel]# yum install yum-utils
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
livna | 2.1 kB 00:00
fedora | 2.8 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-free-updates | 2.7 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates | 2.7 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-free | 2.7 kB 00:00
adobe-linux-i386 | 951 B 00:00
updates | 2.3 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree | 2.7 kB 00:00
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
There are unfinished transactions remaining. You might consider running yum-complete-transaction first to finish them.
--> Running transaction check
---> Package yum-utils.noarch 0:1.1.18-2.fc10 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

================================================== ==============================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
================================================== ==============================
Installing:
yum-utils noarch 1.1.18-2.fc10 fedora 69 k

Transaction Summary
================================================== ==============================
Install 1 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)

Total download size: 69 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
yum-utils-1.1.18-2.fc10.noarch.rpm | 69 kB 00:00
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Installing : yum-utils 1/1

Installed:
yum-utils.noarch 0:1.1.18-2.fc10

Complete!
[root@dhcppc2 Daniel]#

[Daniel ~]

I'll post back if I make the Big B, if not I'll reinstall from Back up and see ya in the morning! ":O}

[Daniel@dhcppc2 ~]$ su
Password:
[root@dhcppc2 Daniel]# yum-complete-transaction
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
There are 5 outstanding transactions to complete. Finishing the most recent one
The remaining transaction had 8 elements left to run
Nothing in the unfinished transaction to cleanup.
Cleaning up completed transaction file
[root@dhcppc2 Daniel]# yum-complete-transaction
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
There are 4 outstanding transactions to complete. Finishing the most recent one
The remaining transaction had 8 elements left to run
Nothing in the unfinished transaction to cleanup.
Cleaning up completed transaction file
[root@dhcppc2 Daniel]# yum-complete-transaction
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
There are 3 outstanding transactions to complete. Finishing the most recent one
The remaining transaction had 8 elements left to run
Nothing in the unfinished transaction to cleanup.
Cleaning up completed transaction file
[root@dhcppc2 Daniel]# yum-complete-transaction
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
There are 2 outstanding transactions to complete. Finishing the most recent one
The remaining transaction had 201 elements left to run
Nothing in the unfinished transaction to cleanup.
Cleaning up completed transaction file
[root@dhcppc2 Daniel]# yum-complete-transaction
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
There are 1 outstanding transactions to complete. Finishing the most recent one
The remaining transaction had 201 elements left to run
Nothing in the unfinished transaction to cleanup.
Cleaning up completed transaction file
[root@dhcppc2 Daniel]# yum-complete-transaction
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
No unfinished transactions left.
[root@dhcppc2 Daniel]#



As you can see I shourtened the list when I copied...whoops....

[Daniel ~]

Hey! Look at me! I'm back up in the blink...that was a restart...I'll go do a shut down /start up....Cold boot is good... now about all these updates...any ideas or just jump in and see what she does?

[Daniel ~]

I'm going ahead and trying the update, I'll restore and yum if it borks as it may! ":O}

Got this

Test Transaction Errors: file /etc/gconf/schemas/gweather.schemas from install of libgweather-2.24.2-1.fc10.x86_64 conflicts with file from package gnome-applets-1:2.20.1-1.fc8.i386
file /etc/gconf/schemas/charpick.schemas from install of gnome-applets-1:2.24.2-2.fc10.x86_64 conflicts with file from package gnome-applets-1:2.20.1-1.fc8.i386
file /etc/gconf/schemas/cpufreq-applet.schemas from install of gnome-applets-1:2.24.2-2.fc10.x86_64 conflicts with file from package gnome-applets-1:2.20.1-1.fc8.i386
file /etc/gconf/schemas/drivemount.schemas from install of gnome-applets-1:2.24.2-2.fc10.x86_64 conflicts with file from package gnome-applets-1:2.20.1-1.fc8.i386
file /etc/gconf/schemas/geyes.schemas from install of gnome-applets-1:2.24.2-2.fc10.x86_64 conflicts with file from package gnome-applets-1:2.20.1-1.fc8.i386
file /etc/gconf/schemas/mini-commander-global.schemas from install of gnome-applets-1:2.24.2-2.fc10.x86_64 conflicts with file from package gnome-applets-1:2.20.1-1.fc8.i386
file ...

usually it dumps the whole update when something fails...still working... I'll update...LOL Yeah it quite the update....this is where I got in trouble. I went and tried to find what wasn't updating and unchecked them...I'd install 20 or so at a time, when it failed I look to see if I could figuer out the linux clues at to the offender. THEN I GOT GRUBED! LOL

[Gizmo]

First, I want you to run yum-complete-transaction and make sure there aren't any outstanding transactions. If there are, keep running yum-complete-transaction until it reports back completed. If it had to complete any transactions, then I want you to reboot before proceeding to the next step below.

Ok, lets remove and reinstall gpanel-applets, but let's do this a piece at a time:

yum remove gpanel-applets

When yum asks if you want to remove these packages, say no, and post the output back here. I want to make sure of the package list.

[ccperf721p]

Just an opinion, but at this point wouldn't it be easier and cleaner to have Daniel back up his /home to another partition or drive, do a clean install of FC10 then move his personal files back to the default /home? I know this wouldn't take care of any user installed apps, but I'm thinking there aren't too many of them..

Might also be time to get Daniel familiar with partitioning his drives, rather than using the default layout.

[dsio]

Really cool trick would be to turn ssh on in private key only mode and expose the machine on a public port.

[dsio]

Originally Posted by ccperf721p

Just an opinion, but at this point wouldn't it be easier and cleaner to have Daniel back up his /home to another partition or drive, do a clean install of FC10 then move his personal files back to the default /home? I know this wouldn't take care of any user installed apps, but I'm thinking there aren't too many of them..

Might also be time to get Daniel familiar with partitioning his drives, rather than using the default layout.

Completely agree as well. Though it isn't necessary to clean install Fedora, due to the fact that this is still (I believe) dan's original fedora installation and much experimentation and playing around has gone with it, might be worth doing.

Soon as you put the /home dir back in place you'll get your gnome settings and everything back.

Don't have to do it, just an option though.

[Gizmo]

What about the stuff he's got installed under Wine?

[dsio]

wine installs everything under ~/.wine

[Daniel ~]

Originally Posted by Gizmo

First, I want you to run yum-complete-transaction and make sure there aren't any outstanding transactions. If there are, keep running yum-complete-transaction until it reports back completed. If it had to complete any transactions, then I want you to reboot before proceeding to the next step below.

Ok, lets remove and reinstall gpanel-applets, but let's do this a piece at a time:

yum remove gpanel-applets

When yum asks if you want to remove these packages, say no, and post the output back here. I want to make sure of the package list.

Hi guys! ":O}

I've read the post following This one by Gizmo.... I'm picking up here as far as carrying out instructions... As to restarting and replacing my stuff after a clean install...well I'm in this for the long run...or slow walk in my case, discuss this amoung yourselves and get back to me! LOL