Comments on: Upgrading from Fedora 7 to Fedora 8 with yum

By: David

David — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:12:33 +0000

For fellow copy 'n' pasters, here is the latest repo links:

rpm -Uhv http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-8-3.noarch.rpm http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-notes-8.0.0-3.noarch.rpm

By: nikpangr

nikpangr — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:59:16 +0000

yum remove notification-daemon-xfce

and after yum -y update

and everything updated fine

By: ttsuchi

ttsuchi — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:29:14 +0000

For people who got 'No Packages marked for Update' in 'yum -y update':

I ran 'yum clean all' first, then 'yum -y update' worked fine.

By: Upgrading from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9 with yum @ IONCANNON

Upgrading from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9 with yum @ IONCANNON — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:52:58 +0000

[...] time it is the Fedora 9 release. The upgrade from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9 is almost exactly like the upgrade to Fedora 8. Here are the steps you need to do the upgrade from Fedora 8 to Fedora [...]

By: Max

Max — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:12:28 +0000

My problem is resolved:

# uname -a

I found out my version was i686, so I then excluded all the i586 packages.

# yum –exclude=*.i586 update

I received no transaction error and I didn't have to download anything again.

By: Max

Max — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:20:24 +0000

I am getting this same error for all the packages I am trying to install using yum on FC8 i386:
file [FILENAME HERE] conflicts between attempted installs of kernel-2.6.24.4-64.fc8.i686 and kernel-2.6.24.4-64.fc8.i586

The exact same error message for all 92 packages. I have already downloaded them. What should I do?

By: Magnus

Magnus — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:47:59 +0000

The cannot allocate memory problem was solved by rebooting the system. However, 45 packets was installed twice – both the FC7 and the FC8 version. Solved that by:

rpm -e chkconfig-1.3.36-1 `rpm -qa | grep "\.fc8"`

After that, the installation worked as expected.

By: Magnus

Magnus — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:17:06 +0000

My upgrade can not fork…

Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Updating : glib2 ################### [ 1/2073]
error: Couldn't fork %post: Cannot allocate memory
Updating : zlib ################### [ 2/2073]
error: Couldn't fork %post: Cannot allocate memory
Updating : atk ################### [ 3/2073]
error: Couldn't fork %post: Cannot allocate memory
Updating : popt ################### [ 4/2073]
error: Couldn't fork %post: Cannot allocate memory

[...]

Updating : libXau ################### [ 34/2073]
error: Couldn't fork %post: Cannot allocate memory
Updating : tcp_wrappers-libs ################### [ 35/2073]
Updating : libxslt ################### [ 36/2073]
error: Couldn't fork %post: Cannot allocate memory
Segmentation fault

By: Frank D. Gunseor

Frank D. Gunseor — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:38:12 +0000

Sirs:

What a wonderful site. I have been able to upgrade from FC5 –> FC6 –> F7 –> F8, but I am having problems with the F8 upgrade.

My system locked up during the initial run of the
yum -y update command.

After reboot F8 came up apparently fine, so I ran the yum clean all command.

Now when I run the Software Update I get errors.

I tried re-running the yum -y update command and I get the following:

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install 105 Package(s)
Update 1193 Package(s)
Remove 4 Package(s)

Total download size: 1.5 G
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test

Transaction Check Error:
file /usr/share/man/man1/alias.1.gz conflicts between attempted installs of bash-3.2-20.fc8 and fish-1.22.3-3.fc8
file /usr/share/man/man1/bg.1.gz conflicts between attempted installs of bash-3.2-20.fc8 and fish-1.22.3-3.fc8
file /usr/share/man/man1/bind.1.gz conflicts between attempted installs of bash-3.2-20.fc8 and fish-1.22.3-3.fc8
file /usr/share/man/man1/break.1.gz conflicts between attempted installs of bash-3.2-20.fc8 and fish-1.22.3-3.fc8
file /usr/share/man/man1/builtin.1.gz conflicts between attempted installs of bash-3.2-20.fc8 and fish-1.22.3-3.fc8
file /usr/share/man/man1/cd.1.gz conflicts between attempted installs of bash-3.2-20.fc8 and fish-1.22.3-3.fc8
file /usr/share/man/man1/command.1.gz conflicts between attempted installs of bash-3.2-20.fc8 and fish-1.22.3-3.fc8
file /usr/share/man/man1/complete.1.gz conflicts between attempted installs of bash-3.2-20.fc8 and fish-1.22.3-3.fc8
file /usr/share/man/man1/continue.1.gz conflicts between attempted installs of bash-3.2-20.fc8 and fish-1.22.3-3.fc8
file /usr/share/man/man1/dirs.1.gz conflicts between attempted installs of bash-3.2-20.fc8 and fish-1.22.3-3.fc8
file /usr/share/man/man1/eval.1.gz conflicts between attempted installs of bash-3.2-20.fc8 and fish-1.22.3-3.fc8
file /usr/share/man/man1/exec.1.gz conflicts between attempted installs of bash-3.2-20.fc8 and fish-1.22.3-3.fc8
file /usr/share/man/man1/exit.1.gz conflicts between attempted installs of bash-3.2-20.fc8 and fish-1.22.3-3.fc8
file /usr/share/man/man1/fg.1.gz conflicts between attempted installs of bash-3.2-20.fc8 and fish-1.22.3-3.fc8
file /usr/share/man/man1/help.1.gz conflicts between attempted installs of bash-3.2-20.fc8 and fish-1.22.3-3.fc8
file /usr/share/man/man1/jobs.1.gz conflicts between attempted installs of bash-3.2-20.fc8 and fish-1.22.3-3.fc8
file /usr/share/man/man1/popd.1.gz conflicts between attempted installs of bash-3.2-20.fc8 and fish-1.22.3-3.fc8
file /usr/share/man/man1/pushd.1.gz conflicts between attempted installs of bash-3.2-20.fc8 and fish-1.22.3-3.fc8
file /usr/share/man/man1/read.1.gz conflicts between attempted installs of bash-3.2-20.fc8 and fish-1.22.3-3.fc8
file /usr/share/man/man1/return.1.gz conflicts between attempted installs of bash-3.2-20.fc8 and fish-1.22.3-3.fc8
file /usr/share/man/man1/set.1.gz conflicts between attempted installs of bash-3.2-20.fc8 and fish-1.22.3-3.fc8
file /usr/share/man/man1/source.1.gz conflicts between attempted installs of bash-3.2-20.fc8 and fish-1.22.3-3.fc8
file /usr/share/man/man1/trap.1.gz conflicts between attempted installs of bash-3.2-20.fc8 and fish-1.22.3-3.fc8
file /usr/share/man/man1/type.1.gz conflicts between attempted installs of bash-3.2-20.fc8 and fish-1.22.3-3.fc8
file /usr/share/man/man1/ulimit.1.gz conflicts between attempted installs of bash-3.2-20.fc8 and fish-1.22.3-3.fc8
file /usr/share/man/man1/umask.1.gz conflicts between attempted installs of bash-3.2-20.fc8 and fish-1.22.3-3.fc8

Error Summary
————-

[root@localhost fdavidg]#

Any suggestions???

Frank

By: Dharmesh V Patel

Dharmesh V Patel — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:33:33 +0000

Did a two step upgrade from FC6 to Fedora 8. Both upgrades went perfect. I manually removed the avahi fc7 module after the FC7 to FC8 upgrade as it failed removal. Issued the rpm -e –noscripts avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7 command as instructed in the YumUpgradeFaqs located at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq