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
Created attachment 679394 [details] output of # rpm -qa | grep fc17 list of files not upgraded
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 ***