On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 09:12 +0000, James Thorpe wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm (still) trying to upgrade from FC1 to FC3. On friday night I left > it updating (yum upgrade, after installing the kernel for FC2, and > removing the 2.4 kernel - https://www.olen.net/node/194), but when I got > back to it on saturday morning, my vnc session had locked up - I could > reconnect to it but the screen was still frozen, though I could still > SSH in. I left it like that all day saturday, just in case it was still > doing something... This morning I decided I'd had enough of that, and > (in hindsight this probably wasn't the best move...) issued the reboot > command. A bit late, but for a yum upgrade, FC1 -> FC2 -> FC3 would have had a better chance of working. The following thread may be of interest - http://lists.freshrpms.net/pipermail/freshrpms-list/2004- November/011421.html as well as this link http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Upgrading_Red_Hat_Linux_with_yum.html > > During booting it now stops when it gets to "Freeing unused kernel > memory", although it's not locked up completely coz when I hit > ctrl-alt-del it still shows the rebooting messages. > > Any ideas on where to go from here? reinstall? :o) Best bet would have been an anaconda upgrade, which MIGHT still bail you out. Good Luck, Phil
