Hi Antonio, thks for jumping in. On Nov 14, 2007 9:32 AM, Antonio <antonio.montagnani@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2007/11/14, André Costa <blueser@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > Hi Claude, > > > > On Nov 14, 2007 12:14 AM, Claude Jones <cjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Tue November 13 2007, André Costa wrote: > > > > Please let me know if there's any additional info I can provide. > > > > > > > > Damn, this is really frustrating =/ > > > > > > Lots of people reporting this issue including me. I did a yum upgrade on two > > > machines that failed on upgrade from the DVD in the way you describe. Worked > > > beautifully. It took a long time - I had to remove a couple of packages on > > > one machine that failed dependency checks, but other than that, it worked. > > > The usual little stuff is broken after the upgrade, but nothing show-stopping > > > so far. Avahi ends up with two instances after the update, but you can google > > > the fix for that - it's simple. Long time means overnight - there were around > > > 1400 packages on each machine that got updated. Both were complete when I > > > looked the next morning. > > > > Thks for sharing your experience. Well, something is definitely broken > > on F8 upgrade process, a Core 2 Duo should never need 1+ hour of > > processing at 1.0 load to figure out the dependencies -- even if it's > > just to realize it can't go further for some reason (eg. third-party > > packages -- which I do have, from Freshrpms). I remember experiencing > > similar delays with F6 --> F7 upgrade, but it wasn't comparable to > > this. It looks like anaconda still needs some serious work. > > > > Well, a network upgrade with yum should work, but what will happen if > > I lose connection for some reason? Will it be possible to recover from > > a half-completed upgrade? Is it possible to use yum to upgrade from > > the installation DVD? > > > > I'll try to file a bug report for this (if there isn't one about it > > yet) hoping that F9 will come with a anaconda that works =/ > > > > Regards, > > > > Andre > > I think that as soon as anaconda problem is solved, DVD should be > re-issued. I am waiting that before wiping out one of my server, for a > clean install Yeah, I could wait a little longer for F8, too. The question is: will it be fixed for F8? Is there anyone working on anaconda issues (this or any other one) to release a re-spin of the official upgrade DVDs? Or will any fix just be visible on F9? > Luckily I had other computer upgraded by switching from F7 to > development repos and finally to F8. I am following same procedure for > F9, development repos is already enabled on one of my computer I understand that F8t3 to F8 should be a small and simple upgrade, but isn't jumping from F7 to F8t3 pretty much the same as doing a network upgrade from F7 to F8? If only yum could use the installation DVD as a source for upgrade somehow...after all, all necessary packages (except for 3rd-party repos) should be there already. Regards, Andre
