[ale] keeping an antique running for another 3 months

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Fri, 2014-05-16 at 13:23 -0400, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> Running an out-of-date Fedora.

How out of date?

I just finished updating an F17 system to F20 using straight yum
update...

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum

It's not for the faint of heart.  Back up a list of all your rpms
first...

"rpm -qa --qf '%{NAME}\n' | sort -u > rpm.list"

That way you can erase minor conflicts and get back what you had.

Then follow the instructions and manually remove conflicts.  Pay
attention to any warnings (like the F19 cgroups change).

If you're coming from an earlier version, it gets more complicated,
particularly if you have to make the sysvinit / upstart / systemd jumps.
I have gone from F12 all the way to F20 but it's not a lot of laughs. 

Regards,
Mike
> 
> Trying to update Firefox as more and more web sites are whining about
> it.
> 
> Down loaded current firefox and unpacked it into /home.
> 
> When I try to run the executable, I get this error:
> 
> XPCOMGlueLoad error for
> file /home/kilpatms/Downloads/firefox/libxul.so:
> 
> libdbus-glib-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory
> 
> Couldn't load XPCOM.
> 
> So, not having any idea what a GlueLoad error might be, I made a link
> to /usr/bin/libdbus-glib-1.so.2, which itself is a link to
> libddbus-glib-.so.2.1.0, which is an older and smaller file.
> 
> I have no idea what XPCOM might be; it resides
> in /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.2/modules but an <ls> also shows this:
> 
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 May 16 12:47 XPCOM -> XPCOM
> 
> where the two XPCOM are oddly marked: the first is red letters on
> black background and the second is blinking white on a red background.
> I have no idea what that is trying to tell me.
> 
> In the same directory is the file XPCOMUtils.jsm. So I tried to make a
> link to that file but that didn't work:
> 
> [root at Sarge firefox]# ln -s XPCOMUtils.jsm
> usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.2/modules/XPCOMUtils.jsm
> 
> ln: creating symbolic link
> `usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.2/modules/XPCOMUtils.jsm': No such file or
> directory
> 
> I am somewhat confused. That file has been sitting in that directory
> since the system was first booted. All 12k of it.
> 
> I'd stop now and have a beer, but it is too early in the afternoon.
> 
> Sean
> 
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