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Bug 895862 - failed update for fc18
Summary: failed update for fc18
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 892061
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: fedup
Version: 18
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Will Woods
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-01-16 07:23 UTC by Steve
Modified: 2013-01-24 03:07 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2013-01-24 03:07:02 UTC
Type: Bug
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output of # rpm -qa | grep fc17 (deleted)
2013-01-16 07:26 UTC, Steve 		no flags Details
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Description Steve 2013-01-16 07:23:35 UTC 
Description of problem:
ran fedup and system unusable due to failures to install

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
fedora 18

How reproducible:
one of one installations

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run fedup against dvd-iso
2. system hung during boot
3. reboot with option single
4. at command prompt run "yum update"
5. system broken at logon screen, remote ssh available
6. run "yum --nopgpcheck update" 
7. 836 packages updated
8. system broken at logon screen, remote ssh available
9. manually check packages and need to do
   yum remove <package>
   yum install <package>
   as yum update <package> does not work
  
Expected results:
system should upgrade from fc17 to fc18 without error

Additional info:
list of files
Comment 1 Steve 2013-01-16 07:26:47 UTC 
Created attachment 679394 [details]
output of # rpm -qa | grep fc17

list of files not upgraded
Comment 2 Will Woods 2013-01-24 03:07:02 UTC 
This is due to a broken upgrade path for KDE packages in F18. See bug 888085 for details about that.

The general problem is that fedup doesn't install packages from the media if your system already has newer versions of those packages.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 892061 ***
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