Problems with yum upgrade has left my machine

Hi all,

 

I’ve been running Aurora Beta2.0 on my Ultra 10 (333MHz UltraSPARCIIi with 128MB RAM and 20GB HDD) for around 6 months now. It’s been working as my mail and web server as well as my network router and development platform. Lots of work for a little box, but once I got past the prelinking issues it’s been plain sailing.

 

I decided to take the plunge and upgrade to the final release of 2.0 so I used yum to upgrade the system. All the downloads and transaction tests went through fine, but when it came to the installs, I got this;

 

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Updating: redhat-menus 100 % done 1/384

Updating: hwdata 100 % done 2/384

Updating: fonts-xorg-75dpi 100 % done 3/384

Updating: glibc-common 100 % done 4/384

warning: /etc/localtime created as /etc/localtime.rpmnew

Updating: glibc 100 % done 5/384

/usr/sbin/glibc_post_upgrade: While trying to execute /usr/sbin/iconvconfig.sparc child terminated abnormally

error: %post(glibc-2.3.6-0.fc3.1.sparc) scriptlet failed, exit status 115

Updating: zlib 100 % done 6/384

Updating: glib2 100 % done 7/384

Updating: libpng 100 % done 8/384

Updating: libxml2 100 % done 9/384

error: %post(libxml2-2.6.16-3.sparc) scriptlet failed, exit status 0

Updating: e2fsprogs 100 % done 10/384

Updating: qt 100 % done 11/384

Updating: info 100 % done 12/384

error: %post(info-4.8-2.2.sparc) scriptlet failed, exit status 0

Updating: gamin 100 % done 13/384

error: %post(gamin-0.1.1-3.FC3.sparc) scriptlet failed, exit status 0

Updating: alsa-lib 100 % done 14/384

Updating: arts 100 % done 15/384

Updating: grep 100 % done 16/384

error: %post(grep-2.5.1-31.4.sparc) scriptlet failed, exit status 0

Updating: krb5-libs 100 % done 17/384

Updating: openssl 100 % done 18/384

Updating: shadow-utils 100 % done 19/384

error: %pre(dbus-0.22-10.FC3.2.sparc) scriptlet failed, exit status 0

error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping dbus-0.22-10.FC3.2

Updating: libtiff 100 % done 21/384

Updating: gtk2 100 % done 22/384

error: %post(gtk2-2.4.14-4.fc3.3.sparc) scriptlet failed, exit status 0

Updating: pygtk2 100 % done 23/384

Updating: pygtk2-libglade 100 % done 24/384

Updating: zlib-devel 100 % done 25/384

Updating: rhpl 100 % done 26/384

Updating: bzip2-libs 100 % done 27/384

error: %pre(kdelibs-3.4.2-0.fc3.2.sparc) scriptlet failed, exit status 0

error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping kdelibs-3.4.2-0.fc3.2

Updating: dbus-glib 100 % done 29/384

Updating: bzip2 100 % done 30/384

Updating: libgnomeui 100 % done 31/384

Updating: libungif 100 % done 32/384

Updating: foomatic 100 % done 33/384

error: %post(foomatic-3.0.2-13.4.sparc) scriptlet failed, exit status 0

Updating: wireless-tools 100 % done 34/384

error: %pre(hal-0.4.7-1.FC3.sparc) scriptlet failed, exit status 0

error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping hal-0.4.7-1.FC3

Updating: samba-common 100 % done 36/384

error: %post(samba-common-3.0.10-1.fc3.sparc) scriptlet failed, exit status 0

Updating: kdebase 100 % done 37/384

Updating: kdepim 100 % done 38/384

error: %post(kdepim-3.4.2-0.al2.1.sparc) scriptlet failed, exit status 0

 

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At this point I killed the Yum process, but any commands result in either a “Bus Error” or a segfault. I can’t make new SSH connections but old ones are still up. I have most of my data backed up, but I have email on the system I’d like to retrieve and also a lot of work has gone into configuring things like webmail, VPN and routing. Is this system fixable? I’m okay with Linux, but not an expert. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

 

If I have to flatline the box and reinstall using the new 2.0 isos, would it be better to install to another HDD and then mount this one and copy the data/configs off to the new disk?

 

Many thanks in advance.

 

Dave

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