On Sunday 20 December 2009 20:12:38 Eelko Berkenpies wrote: > On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:01:35 +0000, Anne Wilson > > <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote: > > On Sunday 20 December 2009 17:18:35 Patrick Boutilier wrote: > >> On 12/20/2009 01:01 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: > >> > On Sunday 20 December 2009 16:52:33 Anne Wilson wrote: > >> >> I've just used PreUpgrade for the first time, and I'm a bit worried > >> >> about the result. Everything I see seems to suggest that the system > >> >> believes me to be still in F11. I did reboot when instructed, and > >> >> I've > >> >> just finished removing the packages listed by 'package-cleanup > >> >> --orphans', though I haven't yet gone through the rpmnew and rpmsav > >> >> files. > >> >> > >> >> What have I missed? > >> >> > >> >> Anne > >> > > >> > Hopefully solved, anyway :-) Nowhere in the PreUpgrade notes does it > >> > say > >> > that the default will be to continue in F11, or that it is necessary > > to > > >> > interrupt Grub to start the upgrade :-) > >> > >> I believe that is a bug. Preupgrade from 10 to 11 booted into Anoconda > >> by default, but 11 to 12 doesn't. > > > > Well, it finally finished, just as I'd begun to think it was stuck. > > Unfortunately it booted to a black screen. I tried several times to > > boot > > > with > > an edited grub entry, without success. This last time it suddenly > > started > > > up > > a blue screen with the Fedora infinity sign - and I thought I was > > winning > > > - but > > it's still sitting there, a black screen with a flashing cursor at the > > top > > > left. If I don't crack this soon I'll end up wiping it and installing > > from > > disk. > > > > Later - well, at least I got as far as a text login. Now I have to try > > to > > > get > > the display working. system-config-display is not installed. Yum tells > > me > > that it can't retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for > > repository:fedora. > > I have already disabled adobe repo and ATrpms repo, and I guess that > > it's > > > going to fail on all the others too, by the sound of it. Any ideas? > > > > Anne > > For a start, are you really on F12 or are you stuck with rawhide for > whatever reason? Well, if I try a nomodeset boot I see Fedora 12 at the bottom of the screen, and uname says it's running an F12 kernel. > Rawhide has a broken curl which breaks yum with the > symptoms you are having. Second, obviously, I assume your (inter)net(work) > works? Third, what kind of video hardware are we talking about? :) > > Most of my similar problems were solved by updating after preupgrade. Some > hassling was involved for me though due to (I hardly dare to speak it out > loud on this mailinglist) nVidia hardware. :) > 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: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20091221/fdcf2841/attachment.bin
