[NBLUG/talk] How to undo a yum update - xorg-x11/FC4 update Warning!

Dave Sisley dsisley at sonic.net
Fri Sep 23 21:16:08 PDT 2005


Mark Street wrote:

>Well...... when you hang out on the edge ... sometimes you bleed.
>  
>
I didn't think it was that edgy - but I know what you mean.

>Seems to be a nasty bug pushed out in the Fedora xorg packages as well as an 
>rpm post install scriptlet that has a bug in it preventing you from actually 
>fixing the problems without some advanced rpm gymnastics and a burnt offering 
>to the Gods.
>  
>
I'm glad to hear you confirm that it wasn't something I did (other than 
to blindly trust the system).

>Personally I would consider any new Fedora release on the level.... unstable.  
>I have not installed FC4 on any of my machines as of yet (chicken... and no 
>time to fiddle).  I have a couple FC3 servers and a few all the way back to 
>RH9 in service.  IMHO Fedora Core has been getting a bit scary ever since 
>FC2.
>  
>
Can you elaborate on this last sentence?

>Stick with FC3 if you want to use Fedora.  Since you have wiped the drive you 
>may as well revert back to a more stable and mature environment and wait for 
>the Fedora team to get their act together.
>  
>
Hmm.  I'm bummed about this, but it's a good lesson, I suppose.  I still 
need to read those docs, and I'll keep re-checking them as things get 
sorted out.  I feel I don't have the time to re-re-reinstall.  I'll just 
wait this one out.  I gotta say, I'm surprised by the way this played 
out.  I kind of assumed that Fedora would be sort of conservative about 
stuff due to it's popularity, but maybe that popularity will also help 
generate a fix more quickly.

-dave.

>On Friday 23 September 2005 6:38 pm, Dave Sisley wrote:
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>>Dave Sisley wrote:
>><I'm assuming no one really wants to re-read my original post>
>>
>>I'm replying to my own post with an update, or more specifically, a
>>reading list:
>>
>>http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?s=17674fb543d98ce17de91603650a
>>d847&t=78667
>>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-September/msg00077
>>.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168844
>>http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/Fedora_Core_4_Update:_xorg-x11-6.
>>8.2-37.FC4.49.2 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/XorgUpdateFix
>>
>>I've only just scanned these pages, but the gist is that the there is an
>>xorg package that will screw up X on machines running on i810 &/or i915
>>graphics chipsets.
>>
>>Upgrade with caution!  The above links make it sound as though there is
>>a 'work around' for the problem, which is the fault of the way rpm works
>>and the way the upgrade script was written for one of the xorg packages.
>>
>>As I said, I haven't read these docs all the way through, but I will.  I
>>invite anyone else who is interested (and might understand them more
>>than me) to look them over and maybe post some concise advice/instructions.
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