Phillip T. George wrote: | Claude Jones wrote: || I'm doing a reinstall and am now going through the update || process. It found a huge number of upgrades and was moving || through them, but now, on 933/969 it's been stalled for half || an hour on 'completing update for gimp'. Is this normal? If || not, what happens if I abort? If I choose to abort, is there a || preferred way? || | I've noticed with FC2 that if you do A LOT of updates, that it | will sometimes hang and not return or not return for a very | long time. I would just not do as many updates. | Thanks, but that doesn't really answer my question. This thing is sitting here obviously stalled, and I'm wondering what the best approach is to dealing with that. Do I cold reboot - is there some keystroke combo that might result in minimal damage? Or some other way? Actually, I've rebuilt my systems a number of times during my Linux learning curve, and after the DVD install, there are always a huge number of updates the first time. I've never had a problem with that up till now. The rpms have already all been downloaded - it's just hung at the second phase of the installation phase - I'm not sure how this works, but it seems like it makes a preliminary pass of unpacking and installing the rpms, and then does a second pass - perhaps to make all the links or something? It's that 'Completing' phase that's hanging... Claude Jones Levit & James, Inc./WTVS Leesburg, VA, USA
