Joe Klemmer wrote: >> If no one hears from me within 3 days send a search party loaded down >> with lots of chocolate, pizza and Sprite (7-up will also do but no >> Sierra Mist!) > > Ok, it was 4 days, 26 cans of Sprite and two Pizza Hut Pizzas but I'm > back. Oh, what fun it was, too. I have a little quick "What happened > and how I got past it" as well as a mini-review (more like a > mega-complaint against Evolution) on my blog. If anyone wants to know > what happened with the upgrade and how I got through it just go to - > > http://x-nc.blogspot.com/ > > I'll post a more detailed description of what happened here if anyone > really wants to know (maybe for future reference). I read your blog, and I think you were incredibly lucky that your method - installing all rpm's in various repositories with "rpm -Uvh *.rpm" - actually worked. I wonder if you ran "yum update" on your FC-4 system before you started? I upgraded from FC-4 to FC-5 by installing fedora-release-5-5.noarch.rpm and then running "yum update". According to my diary for 2006/03/25: ------------------------------------------ I am presently upgrading martha to Fedora-5 "by yum"; that is, I downloaded fedora-release-5-5.noarch.rpm from <http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/> and installed it with "rpm -Uvh fedora-...", and then gave the command "sudo yum update". This downloaded 1021 rpm's, in 2--3 hours, the Transaction Test took another 2 hours, and the machine is currently upgrading in 1850 steps. The "yum upgrade" finally ended after over 12 hours. On re-booting, X failed. It was clear from /var/log/Xorg.0.log that there was a problem finding fonts. Comparing /etc/X11/xorg.conf on martha and elizabeth, I see that the new version has FontPath "unix/:7100" in place of the explicit FontPath's in martha's xorg.conf . It says in the new xorg.conf that "a font server independent of the X server is used to render fonts". In any case, after making this change to xorg.conf X came up (to my relief) on martha . ------------------------------------------ -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
