From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080416 Fedora/2.0.0.14-1.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.14 Description of problem: Updated Fedora 8 VM to current packages. Installed preupgrade-0.9.3-3.fc8 Ran preupgrade, download completed successfully, reboot successful, anaconda install successful. Rebooted Fedora 9 boots, but complain about missing libnss.so.3 object at several steps. Cannot log in to KDE. Reboot in to runlevel 3 and can log in fine. sshd, yum and rpm are all broken. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): preupgrade-0.9.3-3.fc8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Rolled back to VM snapshot 2. Run preupgrade-0.9.3-3.fc8 3. Everythign completes successfully, but system is unusable in F9 Actual Results: Cannot log in to GUI Can log in with runlevel 3 sshd, yum and rpm all complain about missing libnss.so.3 Checked /usr/lib and notice several broken symlinks Expected Results: Additional info: Since I have the VM snapshot, I can repeat the process to provide any additional information.
I can confirm this behavior, however it doesn't occur always (I updated 3 stations, one of them is affected) -- and looking into Google shows there are quite a lot of users asking what to do after such upgrade. The only way I'm aware of is to boot up from CD/DVD/another machine, use the rpm on that, download packages that are corrupted and reinstall them (via rpm -Uvh --force --root <damaged root>). In my case I needed to reinstall (at least) python, python-libs, python-devel, rpm, rpm-libs, rpm-python, yum, tkinter, nss, nss-tools, nspr and fedora-release to get the system in a sort of usable state (imho the rest has been solved by "yum update":) Could this scenario be prevented somehow?
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