On Wednesday 17 June 2009, Globe Trotter wrote: > Hi, > > Don't know what to do. I guess I could reinstall. But this can not be > that uncommon a problem? Surely people can lose power while upgrading > using preupgrade, even tho I was careless in this case. > > I wonder if erasing the fc11 rpms would help. > > While I upgrading, I was told that I would have 1674 packages which > would be updated. The laptop battery died while it was on 1047 (I think! > but I am pretty sure of this number). > > If I do yum erase \* I get asked toremove 2752 packages. > > If I do yum erase \*fc11 I get asked to remove 1092 packages (incl > deps). > > If I do yum erase \*fc10 I get asked to remove 1627 packages (incl > deps). > > The total 1092+1627 = 2719 is less than 2752. So I was wondering if > removing these fc11 and upgrading from scratch would help. > > Btw, going into Upgrade Leonidas at boot now causes the system to say > that it can not find the root system of an existing installation. > > Any suggestions? > Well, I'm thinking it might just be better to do a fresh install than trying to save a hosed setup. That being said, if you don't have fresh backups of important stuff, you might boot from a rescue or "Live" CD and see if you can back stuff up to External HDD / DVD/CD/Tape somehow from there. Oh, and next time, plug your laptop in *before* you try an upgrade. :-) Good luck! -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
