On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 19:08:57 -0400, William Perkins <wperkins@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The Fedora 7 upgrade took four hours just to get to the "Finishing > upgrade process", and now it has been four more hours waiting > for the "Finishing upgrade process" to finish. Running top shows > that anaconda is switching between running and sleeping, and a > series of single ldconfig processes that come and go (process > number increments) that switch from running to uninterruptable > sleep before terminating. I think I may need to kill the upgrade > but I am hoping that one of these days the upgrade will finish. > I am wondering if this is normal when doing upgrades rather than > a fresh install. The latter takes so long to get the system > back to the original configuration. Any suggestions? I did an upgrade on an older machine with only 512MB and slow disks and it took about 12 hours to update 1350 packages. I saw pretty much the same pattern you did and I complained here about the redundant ldconfigs.
