On Friday 30 November 2007, Claude Jones wrote: >On Fri November 30 2007, Gene Heskett wrote: >> I guess they did, it has been stuck, with the HD led on, but no dvd >> activity, at 99% in the dependency check since about 7 hours ago. The >> machine is relatively cool, so its not working very hard. No response to >> the tab, alt+tab, space, or F12 keys. >> >> What is next folks? > >There will be other suggestions. I faced the same problem with both of my F7 >machines. I opted for a yum upgrade. I've had no regrets. After any upgrade, >there are a few small problems - on both my machines, I felt like they were >less than usual, but, that's anecdotal - it took under an hour to fix the >issues I had post-upgrade this time, on both machines. I remember some in >times past, that took up to several days. In no case have any of the issues >been show-stopping. The machines booted, performed all the necessary daily >work, my favorite recipe finally turned out for the dinner party for eight, >my wife got a raise, life was good --- oh, wait......... > >Joking aside, the post upgrade issues on both my yum upgrade F7->F8 machines >were trivial last month. I was more than pleasantly surprised. Time spent in >both cases was about 7 hours on broadband connections (T1 at the office and >3mb DSL at home) > I tried a yum upgrade 2 or 3 weeks ago, but it failed litterally hundreds of dependency thingy's. Maybe didn't do it right, good instructs are hard to find. Pointers, url's welcomed. Thanks, Claude. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. -- "Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
