FC9, Part 3

I am back online and with Sage working after a fresh install of Ubuntu 8.04 x64. I will post pictures later.

FC9, Part 2

I am falling back to a fresh install.

After booting live from a spare laptop and copying the necessary libraries I had rpm working, but there were still a lot of Python problems. Eventually, I forced an install of Python (.fc9), and yum worked after that. I ran "yum upgrade -y --exclude=<pyvault file that ended in .fc4 and caused dependency problems>", yum updated 341 or so files, and updated the kernel. I thought I were done, so I rebooted the system.

I don't remember the exact numbers because I am writing this on Windows after FC9 broke again. This time it was not a partially-upgraded FC8, but an incomplete FC9 - the NVIDIA driver wasn't there, and there were Python problems everywhere. Yum could not find the module rpm. Great.

My advice to anyone who is considering upgrading from FC8 to FC9: preupgrade is most likely broken and you may have problems. At least backup your filesystem, so if anything goes wrong you can revert.

I think I'll get myself another pet tonight.

FC9, Part 1

For some reason I decided to upgrade to Fedora Core 9 today, thinking that the bugs have been fixed and the NVIDIA drivers are there. I ran Fedora's preupgrade, then rebooted, waited for 1062 packages to be installed. Finally, the installer finished (no errors reported) and asked me to reboot my machine again.

So, I started Fedora again, waited for it to boot, it displayed the graphical login screen, detected my graphics card - no problem there. I type my username, password, hit return: the login window disappears, then after a few seconds the screen goes black momentarily and thelogin window pops up again - something resembling a reboot of the x-server.

Eventually I login on terminal 1, run yum, intending to update, and yum gives the following error:

There was a problem importing one of the Python modules required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:

libnss3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Please install a package which provides this module, or verify that the module is installed correctly.

It's possible that the above module doesn't match the current version of Python, which is:
2.5.1 (r251:64863, June 15 2008, 23:59:20)
[GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)]

Great. Turns out I am not the only one having this problem. So, yum does not work and rpm does not work for the same reason. I've e-mailed a friend asking for help; he has yet to respond.

To summarize: Fedora is broken until further notice and if I don't get it fixed soon I'll be looking into those virtual machines to get SAGE going. Or maybe install SAGE on a spare laptop running Ubuntu.