On Dec 2, 2007 8:30 AM, Paul Smith <phhs80@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Dec 2, 2007 1:32 PM, Timothy Murphy <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I tried upgrading a ThinkPad T43 from Fedora 7 to 8 > > and met the familiar hanging syndrome. > > > > I followed the recipe > > at <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/F8Common>, > > downloading > > <http://katzj.fedorapeople.org/updates-f8-yumloop.img> > > and appending "updates" to the kernel command. > > > > The latter seemed to work, since /tmp/updates > > contained the updates*.img file > > (and all other files in the same directory). > > > > However, I saw no evidence that the updates*.img file > > was actually invoked. > > In any case, the hanging was not cured. > > > > I wondered how anaconda knows which file to use to update? > > Does it use all *.img files? > > Is one meant to change the name of the downloaded file? > > > > As far as I can tell, Anaconda upgrade has not worked > > for most people - it worked for me on one computer, > > but not on a second. > > This is not good; > > if the developers cannot get anaconda to upgrade reasonably well > > they should remove the option. > > > > As a practical matter, I did not see any way > > of determining what exactly anaconda was doing > > during the eternal "Checking dependencies ...". > > If one knew it was stuck checking dependencies on one file > > it would be easy to tell that the process had failed. > > As it is, there seems to be no way of knowing > > except to wait for several hours. > > > > Anaconda: 1 out of 10. > > You may want to consider upgrading your machines with yum. Check: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq > > Maybe, in the future, the yum way will be the recommended method to > upgrade Fedora distributions. (Ubuntu does so already.) For now, it > seems to work well, although they say When did Ubuntu switch to yum? I though they were apt and dpkg based. > "Although upgrades with yum have been tested and work, live upgrades > are not recommended by the Fedora Project". > > Paul > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
