Fedora 9′s Broken Install
Fedora 9 was released on the 13th. I waited a whole three days to make sure I wasn’t going to be the beta-tester. Then I tried out the live release, and finally decided to upgrade my main workstation to Fedora 9 today. To be sure I wouldn’t mess stuff up, I used the DVD installer to upgrade.
The upgrade finished fine, but when I rebooted, XChat would not run.
[14:15:53]$ xchat xchat: error while loading shared libraries: libperl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
What did rpm have to say about this?
[14:26:31]$ rpm -q xchat xchat-2.8.4-11.fc8.i386 [14:26:39]$
Hmm . . . looks like the package did not get upgraded. Wondering how many others did not get upgraded, I did a quick check:
[14:26:39]$ rpm -qa | grep fc8|wc -l 139
Wow! 139 packages still carry the fc8 tag! Next I checked if the updates repository has the updates:
[root@rajlin ~]# yum update ... ... Transaction Summary =================================================================== Install 18 Package(s) Update 148 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s)
While I didn’t check all the packages in the list, XChat is definitely there:
xchat i386 1:2.8.4-15.fc9 fedora 1.3 M
So did Fedora just push out a release with old packages just to stay on schedule, and is actually releasing packages now hoping nobody would notice? Read the rest of this entry . . .
