Axel Thimm wrote:
... apt claims you haven't updated glibc, have you? Should be glibc-2.3.4-2.fc3.
If your installed package is still the old one, yum messed up, if it's the new old apt messed up.
For good measure, I'd make sure my rpm database is in order. Try this:
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__* LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 rpm --rebuilddb
Then try again the yum/apt commands.
Hi Axel,
I had already updated with up2date by the time I got your message. It is possible that it updated glibc. I didn't notice. However, I do have the 2.3.4-2fc3 version of glibc installed.
# rpm -q --qf '%{name}-%{version}-%{release} %{arch}\n' glibc
glibc-2.3.4-2.fc3 x86_64
As you suggested, I rebuilt the rpm database: # rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.00* # LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 rpm --rebuilddb
Then I redid the yum and apt commands to see what would happen. The results are at the end of the message. You will notice that the apt-get upgrade works, although it does list some packages as being held back. I don't know if this indicates a problem or not.
apt-get dist-upgrade wants to remove a number of critical packages so I didn't continue with apt from that point.
I think I have my machine updated with up2date and can use yum or up2date to install any new packages I need. (I am assuming this because I'm not really familiar with the use of apt, yum, or up2date).
If it will help you with development of apt, I will be happy to continue to work on the problem with you. If not, thank you very much for the help you've offered in getting my machine up and running.
Carl.
# yum update Setting up Update Process Setting up Repo: base repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Setting up Repo: updates-released repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files base : ################################################## 2852/2852 primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 302 kB 01:28 MD Read : ################################################## 734/734 updates-re: ################################################## 734/734 No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion
# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back
acl alsa-lib alsa-lib-devel alsa-utils beecrypt diffstat docbook-dtds
fedora-release fetchmail flac freeglut glib2 glib2-devel gnupg howl lftp
libacl libgcrypt libgpg-error libraw1394 libselinux libselinux-devel libxml2
libxml2-devel libxml2-python libxslt libxslt-devel lm_sensors
module-init-tools mutt openjade perl-HTML-Parser perl-XML-LibXML
perl-XML-Parser perl-XML-Twig pkgconfig popt pyxf86config rhn-applet rhnlib
rpm rpm-build rpm-devel rpm-python tcl up2date up2date-gnome yum zlib
zlib-devel
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 removed and 50 not upgraded.
# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded
docbook-dtds fedora-release perl-XML-Twig rhnlib
The following packages will be REMOVED:
atrpms-kickstart firstboot kdeaddons kdemultimedia rhn-applet rpm rpm-build
rpm-devel rpm-python system-config-network system-config-network-tui
system-config-packages system-config-users up2date up2date-gnome yum
The following NEW packages will be installed:
atrpms atrpms-package-config docbook-style-dsssl elfutils-devel
elfutils-libelf-devel nptl-devel perl-XML-XPath pythonabi
The following packages have been kept back
acl alsa-lib alsa-lib-devel alsa-utils beecrypt diffstat fetchmail flac
freeglut glib2 glib2-devel gnupg howl lftp libacl libgcrypt libgpg-error
libraw1394 libselinux libselinux-devel libxml2 libxml2-devel libxml2-python
libxslt libxslt-devel lm_sensors module-init-tools mutt openjade
perl-HTML-Parser perl-XML-LibXML perl-XML-Parser pkgconfig popt pyxf86config
tcl zlib zlib-devel
WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
rpm
4 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 16 removed and 38 not upgraded.
Need to get 2596kB of archives.
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