Version confusion in yum

[sidebrnz]

I've been fighting to get my desktop working again after an upgrade from F14 to F16 by preupgrade hung. I was able to restart the computer and the second try seemed to complete OK, but I've been fighting with it ever since. One of the problems is that yum insists that I'm still running F14, even though /etc/fedora-release is correct. The only way I can even try to update the system is by using --releasever=16 and even then there are problems. package-cleanup --problems reports a large number of issues, with no suggestion as to how to correct them and package-cleanup --cleandupes fails because it claims that several of the dupes are needed. Does anybody know how to get yum to remember what version I have, because I don't want to have to reinstall if I don't have to, and I'm not quite that desperate as yet.

[fibster]

Originally Posted by sidebrnz

I've been fighting to get my desktop working again after an upgrade from F14 to F16 by preupgrade hung. I was able to restart the computer and the second try seemed to complete OK, but I've been fighting with it ever since. One of the problems is that yum insists that I'm still running F14, even though /etc/fedora-release is correct. The only way I can even try to update the system is by using --releasever=16 and even then there are problems. package-cleanup --problems reports a large number of issues, with no suggestion as to how to correct them and package-cleanup --cleandupes fails because it claims that several of the dupes are needed. Does anybody know how to get yum to remember what version I have, because I don't want to have to reinstall if I don't have to, and I'm not quite that desperate as yet.

What does thses cmds tell you,

yum-config-manager --enable

yumdb info yum



todd aka fibster

[sidebrnz]

I'm now posting from that desktop, in X for the first time in a week. The first command gives quite a bit of information, that I saved to a file. What are you looking for? The second gives this:

yum-3.2.28-7.fc14.noarch
changed_by = 500
checksum_data = a93a34eb36d8608c51a85fe8bd50918b34bff9cd1d1ffc851c e9d1d92e232921
checksum_type = sha256
from_repo = updates
from_repo_revision = 1308867817
from_repo_timestamp = 1308883929
reason = user
releasever = 14

yum-3.4.3-5.fc16.noarch

---------- Post added at 09:00 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:53 PM ----------

Looking through the responses to the first command, it looks like all of the repos are for F14. How do I correct this, and would it help?

[fibster]

Originally Posted by sidebrnz

I'm now posting from that desktop, in X for the first time in a week. The first command gives quite a bit of information, that I saved to a file. What are you looking for? The second gives this:

yum-3.2.28-7.fc14.noarch
changed_by = 500
checksum_data = a93a34eb36d8608c51a85fe8bd50918b34bff9cd1d1ffc851c e9d1d92e232921
checksum_type = sha256
from_repo = updates
from_repo_revision = 1308867817
from_repo_timestamp = 1308883929
reason = user
releasever = 14

yum-3.4.3-5.fc16.noarch

---------- Post added at 09:00 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:53 PM ----------

Looking through the responses to the first command, it looks like all of the repos are for F14. How do I correct this, and would it help?

tell me this,

yum repolist

yum list installed

yum history list all

I believe I see your problem is in the repos, but these will narrow it down so we can fix you.



fibster

[sidebrnz]

That command, piped to a file gives 337,933 bytes of output. What are you looking for?

[sidebrnz]

I see that I left something out. Here's the repo list, showing that all of my repos are still for Fedora 14:

repo id repo name status
adobe-linux-i386 Adobe Systems Incorporated 17
fedora Fedora 14 - i386 17,883
fedora-xfce-4.8 Xfce 4.8 for Fedora, see https://fedoraproject. 144
livna rpm.livna.org for 14 - i386 3
rpmfusion-free RPM Fusion for Fedora 14 - Free 364
rpmfusion-free-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 14 - Free - Updates 1,050
rpmfusion-nonfree RPM Fusion for Fedora 14 - Nonfree 176
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 14 - Nonfree - Updates 548
updates Fedora 14 - i386 - Updates 7,988
repolist: 28,173

---------- Post added at 05:12 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:02 PM ----------

Somebody on a Fedora support mailing list came up with the answer:

yum --releasever=16 reinstall fedora-release

did the trick. I'm still trying to clean up dupes and problems (Some of the problems, of course, being caused by the dupes.) but at least that's been fixed.