Yum upgrade from FC8 to FC9

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Procedure

  • Get current first 
yum update 
yum clean all 
yum update
yum clean all
  • Update the yum repo 
rpm -Uvh http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/i386/fedora-release-9-5.transition.noarch.rpm http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-notes-9.0.0-1.noarch.rpm
  • This is important: 
yum clean all
  • Check the repository list 
yum repolist   <--  you should see a "updates-newkey" repository
  • Check that the new key is imported 
rpm -qa gpg-pubkey*     <or>     rpm -qa gpg-pubkey* | grep 6df2196f
gpg-pubkey-4f2a6fd2-3f9d9d3b
gpg-pubkey-6df2196f-48b5d596    <--  you should see a line with "6df2196f"
gpg-pubkey-1ac70ce6-41bebeef

If not, then do this: 

rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-8-and-9
  • Take this package out (see below for details) 
rpm -e perl-XML-Encoding
  • Do the update 
yum -y update
  • Reinstall/verify package gnupg2 
rpm -qa|grep gnupg2

If not found, then 

yum install gnupg2
  • Shut down XFS (xorg-x11-xfs is deprecated and causes X problems in F9) 
service xfs stop
chkconfig --level 12345 xfs off

mv /etc/inittab /etc/inittab.old
mv /etc/inittab.rpmnew /etc/inittab

Add the folowing to /etc/rc.d/rc.local (if these lines were in the old inittab) 

# TSM Client Scheduler/Web Startup
/opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmcad
nohup /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmc sched > /dev/null 2>&1 &

Note: Check the startup process after boot. I have seen this hang the boot process. Symptom: Startup stops after the "anacron OK" message. Investigation continues.

  • Check /etc/grub.conf and reboot 
shutdown -r now
  • Resolve rpmnew/rpmsave files 
find /etc -name *.rpmnew
find /etc -name *.rpmsave

Troubleshooting

gnupg2

There's a packaging bug. Before update, remove gnupg2, but re-install it the update. 

rpm -e --nodeps gnupg2

perl-XML-Encoding

Dependency problem, fixed by: 

rpm -e perl-XML-Encoding

Informational

Default Environment Variables

There has been a change in how environment variables are set for non-interactive shells. One situation where this applies is when commands are issued via SSH of the form: 

ssh user@host 'command'

For example, the LANG environment variable is no longer being set, which will cause changes in the formats for dates, etc. The solution (for this specific problem) is to explicitly set the LANG environment variable as follows: 

export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

This problem arose in Fedora 9 (actually starting with rpm package setup at version 2.6.12) due to a change in /etc/bashrc. Previously /etc/profile.d/* scripts were executed as part of the /etc/bashrc script, but not any more.


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