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

[Mark Street]

Well...... when you hang out on the edge ... sometimes you bleed.

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.

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.

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.

On Friday 23 September 2005 6:38 pm, Dave Sisley wrote:
> 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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