On Thursday 25 June 2009 05:50:03 Kevin Kofler wrote: > If you just run "yum upgrade" or "yum update" (they behave the same by > default), that's not what happens. To achieve that, you have to: > yum --downloadonly upgrade > telinit 3 > yum -C upgrade > > On the other hand, preupgrade does drop you out of the running system, it > does the upgrade in an Anaconda environment. Kevin, please understand that I did not initiate this upgrade, in a sense. When the update notifier sends out that invitation to upgrade it takes control of the upgrade. This is a service/utility provided by fedora. I accept that most of my problem seems to stem from being more at the bleeding edge than I've ever been before. I've learned a lot from this experience. Now I just want to know how to deal with the remaining 15 f10 packages. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20090625/50f0e712/attachment.bin