On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Kevin Bowling<kevinb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > I have an IBM x3650 that was running F10. I initiated preupgrade-cli for > F11, which downloaded packages and rebooted the box. Preupgrade came up in > GUI mode, but for whatever reason the Radeon R100 card was excruciatingly > slow and this somehow affected the speed of installing packages. It took > nearly 16 HOURS for the upgrade packages to install (99.999% CPU idle, > barely any disk activity) -- keep in mind this is an 8 core server and is > connected to a high-speed RAID-6 storage system. > > After the ~1800 of ~1800 packages were installed, it opened the "Please wait > while setup is finished. This may take a while" dialog. This sat for 24 > HOURS without completing. At this point, I rebooted the machine because > this is a quasi-production QA box and I had people that needed access to it. > > The upgrade seemingly went well despite, and it booted up. However there > are some particularities. Yum lists both the F10 and F11 packages as > installed. One area that seemed to be affected is Java/Eclipse. It is much > slower than it should/used to be. > > There are two problems here: > 1) KMS or DRM, or most likely the radeon video driver are faulty. The > textmode framebuffer worked at full speed. Further, why does preupgrade-cli > even start Xwindows? Why would the speed of X determine how fast Anaconda > ran background tasks? There was nothing interesting in the upgrade logs, > dmesg, etc :-(. > > 2) I now have a franken-system that seemingly has both F10 and F11 versions > of packages installed. How can I manually clean this up? > > Regards, > Kevin > Might I suggest that you first verify that all your repos point to F11. Then, as others have suggested in other threads run "package-cleanup --cleandupes", "package-cleanup --problems", and "package-cleanup --orphans".. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
