At 02:24 AM 5/20/2007, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
<DHR>>>>>Since the list is not full of complaints, my problem is probably
unique. But I want to share it anyway.<<<<<
Good morning, Hugh.
I can tell you that your problem is nowhere near unique.
I learned a long time ago not to blindly "upgrade everything" since it was
sure to cause no end of problems eventually.
I have a fresh installation of FC6, and decided what the hell, may as well
try a global upgrade and see what happens (after somebody in
comp.os.linux.setup said something like "You're going to run yum -yt
upgrade anyway, right?").
First of all, what is the "-t" switch to yum? I know "-y" tells yum to
answer "yes" to everything, but I can't find "-t" in the man page. But, I
digress...
Anyway, I tried a global yum upgrade of everything in my fresh FC6
installation, and after several hours, it hung pretty much the same as
yours did. I rebooted, and cannot get the new kernel (2.6.20) to boot...
gives me kernel errors.
So, I rebooted back to 2.6.18.
Now, I have absolutely NO idea what shape my installation is in, suspect
it's not good at several levels, and I don't know what to do about it other
than do a fresh re-install (which as I said this was a fresh install anyway
so in THIS case that's not a big problem).
My problem for the future, though, is I have absolutely NO idea how to
revert to a previous installation and remove the effects of a failed "yum
-yt upgrade".
Can any of you direct me to some reading material that explains how to do that?
Otherwise, I don't dare upgrade or update much of anything, which for many
reasons is not good policy...
