Yesterday, I tried to upgrade my Fedora 8 test installation to Fedora 9 Beta using yum. The upgrade worked fine, after a 1.1GB download I could reboot, but only with the old Fedora 8 kernel. Fedora 9′s 2.6.25 kernel segfaulted right after the “uncompressing linux” message by displaying some libc.so errors.
So I felt smart, and thought that I could probably resolve this problem by installing F9′s glibc and glibc-common packages with yum.
I tried to uninstall them with an rpm -e glibc glibc-common, but these package had a lot of dependencies. Well, not a big deal…rpm -e glibc glibc-common –nodeps (remember, I felt smart).
Fatal error! NEVER try this at home kids! My system was obviously dead, I couldn’t even reinstall the new versions as yum relies on these packages 