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Fedora 12 upgrade woes: Apache issues

Could not start the httpd service for a while due to: Syntax error on line 196 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Cannot load /etc/httpd/modules/mod_file_cache.so into server: /etc/httpd/modules/mod_file_cache.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I had to manually comment out two unneeded modules from the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: #LoadModule file_cache_module modules/mod_file_cache.so #LoadModule mem_cache_module modules/mod_mem_cache.so More here .

Fedora 10 (Cambridge) to Fedora 12 (Constantine) with PreUpgrade

Ok, here goes my first blog post ever... Last Friday, I decided to upgrade from Fedora 10 to 12 using the PreUpgrade tool. The download and the installation process went well until the time came to boot into the new system. I suspected something was wrong when I realized the fc12 kernel line was missing from the Grub menu, and I was "relieved" to see I was right the whole time when I was presented with: Give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D to continue): I could not even type. Every time I hit a key, i was prompted with the same line... Thankfully, I had that old custom compiled vanilla kernel sitting in the Grub menu that allowed me to boot and utilize the command line at least. Although I was able to interact with Grub during the boot process, I decided to complicate the problem for no apparent reason and thought there must be something wrong with the grub itself... I burned the Fedora 12 DVD iso image and booted the computer into rescue mode... Two c...