So once our upgrade to FC19 was done, we notice we haven't got a network connection anymore.  This is because we try to use yum and get a bunch of error messages.  Here's how to solve it on the new system through a debugging session into the issue.  

The error rpmlib(X-CheckUnifiedSystemdir) is needed by filesystem came about when trying to upgrade from FC16 ( Fedora Core 16 ) to Fedora Core 19 ( FC19 ).  There is a fundamental filesystem change that has been done impacting every rpm on the new Fedora Linux distribution.  More towards the error, it came about when trying to upgrade rpm […]

(continued from here) [root@moto F13toF18]# rpm -aq|head liboil-0.3.16-5.fc15.i686 arj-3.10.22-13.fc15.i686 perl-POE-1.289-6.fc16.noarch autocorr-sv-3.4.6.2-1.fc16.noarch python-iniparse-0.4-3.fc15.noarch unique-1.1.6-5.fc16.i686 kde-i18n-Finnish-3.5.10-17.fc18.noarch finger-0.17-43.fc15.i686 hyphen-it-0.20071127-6.fc15.noarch libXrender-devel-0.9.6-2.fc15.i686 [root@moto F13toF18]# [root@moto F13toF18]# Which is perfect and we're at FC19 with RPM and glibc and libdb.  Now time to see if yum works so we try and get the FC19 repos this time to complete this job. […]

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