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Upgrading Fedora 14 Without PreUpgrade
Tuesday 24th January, 2012 13:39 Comments: 0
Although upgrading Fedora 14 to 15 isn't officially supported using yum (you should use PreUpgrade), I gave it a try this month on a Hyper-V R2 based virtual machine (after taking a snapshot) and stumbled across a few issues (none relating to Hyper-V) that I thought might be worth sharing.

After running the following commands (over SSH) as suggested on the Fedora site: 
rpm --import https://fedoraproject.org/static/069C8460.txt
yum update yum
yum clean all
yum --releasever=15 --disableplugin=presto distro-sync
I got the error message: 
Error: Package: libpanelappletmm-2.26.0-2.fc12.i686
A quick yum remove later and that was sorted: 
yum remove libpanelappletmm -y
Everything looked good after a massive 1.2GB download, but I thought I'd do a "reboot" for good measure: 
Failed to talk to init daemon.
Thankfully I found a way to fix this: 
sync && reboot -f
After the reboot, everything came back up fine, although Gnome was running in fallback mode (not a bad thing, to be honest). Even VNC seemed happy, which I wasn't expecting.
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