Thursday 12 November 2009

Reinstalling X? :(

Seems the graphics driver thing has caused more than just the odd yum glitch...
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-February/msg01178.html

In short, because of the way ATI bundled the driver, I will probably have to reinstall the X server and stuff that goes with it. That doesn't sound like it will be a fun job at all. :(

Wednesday 11 November 2009

Some of the update issues sorted...

Turns out switching on the rpmfusion-free-update repository sorted out a lot of the issues with doing a yum update.

Now left with ....
[root@yeti yum.repos.d]# yum update
Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin2, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libnetfilter_conntrack.so.1 for package: iptstate-2.2.1-5.fc11.i586
---> Package libnetfilter_conntrack.i586 0:0.0.100-1.fc11 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
iptstate-2.2.1-5.fc11.i586 from installed has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: libnetfilter_conntrack.so.1 is needed by package iptstate-2.2.1-5.fc11.i586 (installed)
Error: Missing Dependency: libnetfilter_conntrack.so.1 is needed by package iptstate-2.2.1-5.fc11.i586 (installed)
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
package-cleanup --dupes
rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
[root@yeti yum.repos.d]#

To sort out.

kmod-fglrx issues

Recently ran through the upgrade process of Fedora 10-11. Preupgrade went smoothly but no upgrade, so had a look at grub.conf and discovered I had to select the upgrade option there during boot. Duly done and complete, kind of.

A $yum update gives me a bunch of dependency issues, here are a couple....

Error: Missing Dependency: libnetfilter_conntrack.so.1 is needed by package iptstate-2.2.1-5.fc11.i586 (installed)
Error: Missing Dependency: libxcb-keysyms.so.0 is needed by package vlc-core-1.0.0-0.11rc3.fc11.i586 (installed)
Error: Missing Dependency: kernel-uname-r = 2.6.27.38-170.2.113.fc10.i686 is needed by package kmod-fglrx-2.6.27.38-170.2.113.fc10.i686-9.3-1.fc10.15.i686 (rpmfusion-nonfree-updates)
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
package-cleanup --dupes
rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

Straight away I can see a package is from fc10, so not a big suprise that causes issues. Turns out kmod-fglrx-2.6.27.38-170.2.113.fc10.i686-9.3-1.fc10.15.i686 is from the ATI proprietry drivers I installed, so....

[root@yeti yum.repos.d]# yum remove kmod-fglrx
Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin2, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Remove Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kmod-fglrx.i686 0:9.3-1.fc10.14 set to be erased
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

...now at least I only have fc11 packages whining at me....

--> Finished Dependency Resolution
iptstate-2.2.1-5.fc11.i586 from installed has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: libnetfilter_conntrack.so.1 is needed by package iptstate-2.2.1-5.fc11.i586 (installed)
vlc-core-1.0.0-0.11rc3.fc11.i586 from installed has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: libxcb-keysyms.so.0 is needed by package vlc-core-1.0.0-0.11rc3.fc11.i586 (installed)
gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.11-4.fc11.i586 from installed has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: libass.so.3 is needed by package gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.11-4.fc11.i586 (installed)
Error: Missing Dependency: libass.so.3 is needed by package gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.11-4.fc11.i586 (installed)
Error: Missing Dependency: libnetfilter_conntrack.so.1 is needed by package iptstate-2.2.1-5.fc11.i586 (installed)
Error: Missing Dependency: libxcb-keysyms.so.0 is needed by package vlc-core-1.0.0-0.11rc3.fc11.i586 (installed)
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
package-cleanup --dupes
rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

The gstreamer and VLC packages are packages I want to keep for my video/mp3 collections so I need to work out why these are failing. Clearly (?) they have missing dependacies, but I need to know where to get those from and equally why can I not get them from the repos I have enabled? Dropped from Fedora 11 possibly? In which case I need to find out what replaces them in 11.