<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Michael H. Warfield <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mhw@wittsend.com" target="_blank">mhw@wittsend.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">On Fri, 2014-05-16 at 13:23 -0400, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:<br>
> Running an out-of-date Fedora.<br>
<br>
</div>How out of date?<br>
<br>
I just finished updating an F17 system to F20 using straight yum<br>
update...<br>
<br>
<a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum</a><br>
<br>
It's not for the faint of heart. Back up a list of all your rpms<br>
first...<br>
<br>
"rpm -qa --qf '%{NAME}\n' | sort -u > rpm.list"<br>
<br>
That way you can erase minor conflicts and get back what you had.<br>
<br>
Then follow the instructions and manually remove conflicts. Pay<br>
attention to any warnings (like the F19 cgroups change).<br>
<br>
If you're coming from an earlier version, it gets more complicated,<br>
particularly if you have to make the sysvinit / upstart / systemd jumps.<br>
I have gone from F12 all the way to F20 but it's not a lot of laughs.<br>
<br></blockquote><div>Masochist! Once I hit the sysVinit -> upstart transition, I decided a clean install was easier. I ran fedup for 18->19->20. It has a cleanup option at the end to ditch dangling packages.<br>
</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Regards,<br>
Mike<br>
<div><div class="h5">><br>
> Trying to update Firefox as more and more web sites are whining about<br>
> it.<br>
><br>
> Down loaded current firefox and unpacked it into /home.<br>
><br>
> When I try to run the executable, I get this error:<br>
><br>
> XPCOMGlueLoad error for<br>
> file /home/kilpatms/Downloads/firefox/libxul.so:<br>
><br>
> libdbus-glib-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or<br>
> directory<br>
><br>
> Couldn't load XPCOM.<br>
><br>
> So, not having any idea what a GlueLoad error might be, I made a link<br>
> to /usr/bin/libdbus-glib-1.so.2, which itself is a link to<br>
> libddbus-glib-.so.2.1.0, which is an older and smaller file.<br>
><br>
> I have no idea what XPCOM might be; it resides<br>
> in /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.2/modules but an <ls> also shows this:<br>
><br>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 May 16 12:47 XPCOM -> XPCOM<br>
><br>
> where the two XPCOM are oddly marked: the first is red letters on<br>
> black background and the second is blinking white on a red background.<br>
> I have no idea what that is trying to tell me.<br>
><br>
> In the same directory is the file XPCOMUtils.jsm. So I tried to make a<br>
> link to that file but that didn't work:<br>
><br>
> [root@Sarge firefox]# ln -s XPCOMUtils.jsm<br>
> usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.2/modules/XPCOMUtils.jsm<br>
><br>
> ln: creating symbolic link<br>
> `usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.2/modules/XPCOMUtils.jsm': No such file or<br>
> directory<br>
><br>
> I am somewhat confused. That file has been sitting in that directory<br>
> since the system was first booted. All 12k of it.<br>
><br>
> I'd stop now and have a beer, but it is too early in the afternoon.<br>
><br>
> Sean<br>
><br>
><br>
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