On Monday 03 May 2004 08:20, Alexander Dalloz wrote: >Am Mo, den 03.05.2004 schrieb Gene Heskett um 03:31: >> Greetings; >> >> My main box lost its ability to run anything gtk or gnome related, >> so I put in FC1 disk1 and did an upgrade from my well modified >> RH8.0 install. Running gcc3.2, kde3.2, qt3.2 and the best kernel >> so far, 2.6.5-mm6. > >[ snipped the story ] > >> Where do I go from here folks? >> >> No Cheers for FC1 at this point, Gene > >Gene, > >your are either very, very optimistic or blue eyed. Both :) And an old fart (69) to boot. I started on much much simpler machines back in the 70's, writing a commercialy used app for the RCA 1802 cpu with nothing but the programmer manual and the machines hex monitor. Unforch, thats ill-equipt me to deal with os's whose src code is in the general area of 200 megabytes. :( >At least you >overestimate what an automatic upgrade process can handle. And that > is no limitation of Fedora nor of RPM in specific. > >You did not say, but I guess all the never software versions on your > RH8 were installed from source and where no RPM packages. So how > should the package manager handle that situation? And even it were > RPM installed packages, it had to handle dependencies and > downgrading to versions FC1 does deliver. And on top there is the > situation that FC1 is not kernel 2.6 ready. Of course not to forget > that even your system was broken before you started upgrading (you > mentioned that in your first sentence). > >Conclusion: all that was to be expected. In cases of such heavily >customized installations - your RH8 did not look any more like RH8 - >there is only the way of a fresh new install. > >Alexander Well, I have now managed to get at least as much working as was working before. Including the now very old version of mozilla-1.4. I did have 1.6, so I put that back in after a while. I got yum from the update site with it and let yum trundle thru it last night, updateing 296 packages, but I haven't rebooted yet. And my gtk stuff is still very iffy, see another post showing the gftp-2.0.17 output and segfault. This may be something related to the original having been installed from a tarball without using checkinstall -R. So things are looking up at a slight angle :) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
