FC16->17: Broken dependencies

haggholm · #1 31st May 2012, 06:30 AM

Updated to FC17 using the install DVD (anaconda?) from an up-to-date FC16 system, which was apparently a mistake. Now I cannot run yum upgrade as it complains about (221) missing dependencies and dupes, e.g.

Code:

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install    5 Packages (+37 Dependent packages)
Upgrade  509 Packages
Remove     2 Packages

Total size: 517 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running Transaction Check
ERROR with transaction check vs depsolve:
libcups.so.2 is needed by gtk2-2.24.10-1.fc17.i686
Please report this error in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora&version=rawhide&component=yum
** Found 221 pre-existing rpmdb problem(s), 'yum check' output follows:
ConsoleKit-x11-0.4.5-1.fc15.x86_64 has missing requires of ConsoleKit = ('0', '0.4.5', '1.fc15')
GConf2-gtk-3.2.3-1.fc16.x86_64 has missing requires of GConf2 = ('0', '3.2.3', '1.fc16')
abrt-retrace-client-2.0.7-2.fc16.x86_64 has missing requires of abrt = ('0', '2.0.7', '2.fc16')
alsa-lib-1.0.25-3.fc17.x86_64 is a duplicate with alsa-lib-1.0.25-1.fc16.i686
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.25-3.fc17.x86_64 is a duplicate with alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.25-3.fc16.i686
anaconda-16.25-1.fc16.x86_64 has missing requires of libarchive.so.2()(64bit)
atk-2.4.0-1.fc17.x86_64 is a duplicate with atk-2.2.0-2.fc16.i686
audacious-plugins-3.0.4-2.fc16.x86_64 has missing requires of libcdio.so.12()(64bit)

...And so on from audacious-plugins alphabetically to zlib.

Is there any way to resolve this, short of a clean reinstall? And is there any upgrade method that won’t break Fedora?

hadrons123 · #2 31st May 2012, 06:58 AM

Most likely your system is borked. If I were you I would do a reinstall.

Too many people having issues with upgrade.Search the forums.

mschwendt · #3 31st May 2012, 08:01 AM

The DVD doesn't contain all the packages a user may have installed when using the older dist. The full Fedora Package Collection doesn't fit onto just one DVD. Hence when one performs an upgrade with the DVD, one needs to enable the network repositories, so everything can be upgraded.

As whether it can be resolved, it likely can be fixed with some effort. Temporarily broken dependencies are not a big problem, as installing missing packages may fix them. Duplicates are a worse problem, since they can confuse the depsolver a lot. At least try whether running package-cleanup --cleandupes manages to remove the old duplicates. If that fails, "rpm -e ..." still works for duplicates, too. Focus on trying to remove the optional .i686 packages, especially because they have not been updated yet.

haggholm · #4 1st June 2012, 05:43 AM

Some progress, for any poor saps who follow me: I was able to solve a lot, but far from all problems with

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yum distro-sync

to upgrade most FC16 packages to FC17. Most -- but not all. The next step was

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yum list installed | grep fc16

to find all my installed FC16 packages. Here I found that I could install packages from this list individually to get those, too, up to FC17. So far, so good. My next thought was to use the output and feed it back into yum to upgrade those packages:

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yum list installed | grep fc16 | cut -d " " -f 1 | xargs yum upgrade -y

This might have worked, but I still had the libcups problem. In an attempt to isolate the problem, I installed the other packages from this list a few at a time (which may have been unnecessary), but was still stuck with the libcups problem.

To get around that, I ended up removing the i686 (fc16) version of gtk2:

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yum remove gtk2.i686

I was subsequently able to reinstall it, which I did mostly out of curiosity:

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yum install gtk2.i686

This got me the fc17 version. (It was a dependency of only one package anyway, nspluginwrapper, which I don’t think I need at all these days.)

yum upgrade now succeeds (or rather, has nothing to upgrade)! We’ll see if my system survives a reboot, I suppose...

---------- Post added at 09:43 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:32 PM ----------

Quote:

Originally Posted by haggholm

yum upgrade now succeeds (or rather, has nothing to upgrade)! We’ll see if my system survives a reboot, I suppose...

Kernel panic on reboot, for some reason or other, but although I had to do a hard shutdown, it seems to have started well enough. All appears well -- for now -- after those various ifs and buts.

marko · #5 4th June 2012, 08:34 PM

I got my upgrade from DVD issues worked out down to your last problem here in post #4, when I try to remove gtk2.i686 I have to remove AdobeReader_enu as a dependency but for some reason the yum remove never completes and the process gtk-update-icon just runs on the cpu at 100% (or really high cpu percentage). I also see by the process id and the state of the process being "D" that the gtk-update-icon process seems to run, then die they gets restarted. When I forceably quit the yum remove with ctrl+C it outputs the error:

Quote:

Error in PREUN scriptlet in rpm package AdobeReader_enu-9.5.1-1.i48

My system runs ok anyway so I guess I'll leave the gtk2 as 'Needs update' for now

virason · #6 4th June 2012, 09:16 PM

had the same problem after upgrade from fc16 to fc17. it appears that packages which were installed on fc16 outside of yum were not removed during the upgrade to fc17 and some were causing conflicts/update errors. yum remove the offenders worked for me.