On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 18:07 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: > Herschel 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 am unsure this will be of any help, but I just installed FC 3 > | (probably a very early version off a Linux Format DVD - Jan > | issue) on a laptop this weekend. All efforts failed using the > | connection via the built in updater. Yum update (command line) > | was suggested and it had only need for 369 updates and I mostly > | left it alone while it churned away checking aperiodicly. Near > | the end I found I found it failed on Natulus, I did a Ctl-C > | expecting the worse and just tried to rerun: "yum update" only > | to be told I was completely updated. > | > | Note the difference, however, I had an explicit message > | informing me of a premature halt so our situations differ. > | > | It might be possible that an abort may leave you with most of > | the updates completed, if it is still locked up you could try > | this "method". Warning until yesterday I have only read about > | yum having never used it previosly - I was impressed. > > Well, I ran out and ran errands while I waited to see if anyone > had some cogent advice to offer. When I returned the machine was > still stalled. Ctl-C didn't do anything, so I finally cold > rebooted into level 3. When I tried a yum update again, it said > there was a missing dependency 'boost' needed for 'boost-devel' > and quit. I'd run yum with the fedorafaq yum.conf file that first > time. I just ran it again in level 5 with the redhat network > utility which uses different repos, and it installed 4 additional > packages and said it was completely up to date. It's funny, this > has happenned before - I try one set of repos, and there's a > problem, and then I use the utility built into FC and it gets me > past the logjam. There was a thread recently about removing > up2date and I thought to myself that this kind of thing is a good > reason to keep it. Now I have an example. > > Claude Jones > Levit & James, Inc./WTVS > Leesburg, VA, USA > > I agree. I have used apt and up2date along with yum. Although, I recently installed and updated with no problems with yum. I also upgraded an FC2 machine to FC3, all packages. My cable modem went down right in the middle. Upon reconnect, I tried the upgrade again, and it sailed along from where it left off. So, I guess restartability depends on where in the process a problem occurs. Ron
