Re: RH 8.0 upgrade to Fedora Core 2 - crashes

From: Rollin Kent (carpromos_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/29/04

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To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>

    I found it simpler to upgrade direct from RH to Fedora
    rather than use the images. A how-to is at
    http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraHOWTO; worked well for
    me.

    --- "Bryan C. Andregg" <bandregg@loopback.net> wrote:

    > I am attempting to upgrade a Red Hat 8.0 system to
    > Fedora Core 2 using
    > the install CD images from the website. The current
    > system is a stock
    > install with most updates (until 8.0 was EOL'd) and
    > very little or no
    > custom software or third party software installed.
    >
    > During the upgrade everything works until the
    > installer displays
    > "Preparing RPM Transaction" at which point the
    > installer terminates and
    > the system shuts down. The upgrade log has plenty of
    > detail about
    > upgrading dependancies followed by packages to be
    > upgraded and ends
    > with:
    >
    > The following packages were available in this
    > version but NOT upgraded:
    > Upgrading comps-8.0-0.20020910.
    >
    > The only other errors in the upgrade log all look
    > like:
    >
    > OMF file [/usr/share/omf/glade/turbo-start-C.omf]
    > does not validate
    > against Scro
    > llKeeper-OMF DTD:
    >
    /usr/share/xml/scrollkeeper/dtds/scrollkeeper-omf.dtd
    >
    > Does anyone know why the installer is crashing
    > and/or how to prevent
    > that from happening?
    >
    > Cheers,
    > --
    > Bryan C. Andregg
    > <bandregg@loopback.net>
    >
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