Time to upgrade from f11 to f12. Preupgrade failed and my question is "Is it OK to try again or will I end up in some screwed up state halfway between f11 and f12?" Here is the output of preupgrade with some of my comments embedded. Thanks, Steve # preupgrade /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py:203: UserWarning: Use .preconf instead of passing args to _getConfig warnings.warn('Use .preconf instead of passing args to _getConfig') Loaded plugins: blacklist, dellsysidplugin2, fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, : whiteout preupgrade-main (mirrorlist) url: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-12&arch=$basearch now: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-12&arch=i386 Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * fedora: ftp.usf.edu * livna: ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de * rpmfusion-free: mirror.liberty.edu * rpmfusion-free-updates: mirror.liberty.edu * rpmfusion-nonfree: mirror.liberty.edu * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirror.liberty.edu * updates: ftp.usf.edu preupgrade (mirrorlist) url: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?path=pub/fedora/linux/releases/12/Fedora/$basearch/os now: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?path=pub/fedora/linux/releases/12/Fedora/i386/os Checking for new repos for mirrors * preupgrade-main: ftp.usf.edu preupgrade-adobe-linux-i386 (baseurl) url: http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/ now: http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/ Checking for new repos for mirrors preupgrade-fedora (mirrorlist) url: https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-12&arch=i386 now: https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-12&arch=i386 Checking for new repos for mirrors preupgrade-livna (mirrorlist) url: http://rpm.livna.org/mirrorlist now: http://rpm.livna.org/mirrorlist Checking for new repos for mirrors * preupgrade-fedora: ftp.usf.edu Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://rpm.livna.org/mirrorlist error was [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error [Errno 111] Connection refused> Can't set up new repo preupgrade-livna - removing ============================ Hmmm... Continuing ============================ preupgrade-rpmfusion-free (mirrorlist) url: http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=free-fedora-12&arch=i386 now: http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=free-fedora-12&arch=i386 Checking for new repos for mirrors preupgrade-rpmfusion-free-updates (mirrorlist) url: http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=free-fedora-updates-released-12&arch=i386 now: http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=free-fedora-updates-released-12&arch=i386 Checking for new repos for mirrors * preupgrade-rpmfusion-free: mirror.liberty.edu preupgrade-rpmfusion-nonfree (mirrorlist) url: http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=nonfree-fedora-12&arch=i386 now: http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=nonfree-fedora-12&arch=i386 Checking for new repos for mirrors * preupgrade-rpmfusion-free-updates: mirror.liberty.edu preupgrade-rpmfusion-nonfree-updates (mirrorlist) url: http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=nonfree-fedora-updates-released-12&arch=i386 now: http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=nonfree-fedora-updates-released-12&arch=i386 Checking for new repos for mirrors * preupgrade-rpmfusion-nonfree: mirror.liberty.edu preupgrade-updates (mirrorlist) url: https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-f12&arch=i386 now: https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-f12&arch=i386 Checking for new repos for mirrors * preupgrade-rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirror.liberty.edu Fetched treeinfo from http://mirror.pnl.gov/fedora/linux/releases/12/Fedora/i386/os//.treeinfo treeinfo timestamp: Sun Nov 8 18:54:19 2009 Not enough space in /boot/upgrade to download install.img. =================================== Again, Hmmm... http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PreUpgrade says "The installer will need approximately 26M of free space in /boot. " # df -h /boot Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb1 190M 22M 159M 13% /boot So I should have enough space right? Anyhow, I clicked continue since I have a wired connection. Continuing further. ==================================== Checking for new repos for mirrors * preupgrade-updates: ftp.usf.edu failure: repodata/filelists.sqlite.bz2 from preupgrade-rpmfusion-free-updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. -- Changing lives one card at a time http://www.sendoutcards.com/blackwell -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines