2007/11/14, André Costa <blueser@xxxxxxxxx>: > Hi Claude, > > On Nov 14, 2007 12:14 AM, Claude Jones <cjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue November 13 2007, André Costa wrote: > > > Please let me know if there's any additional info I can provide. > > > > > > Damn, this is really frustrating =/ > > > > Lots of people reporting this issue including me. I did a yum upgrade on two > > machines that failed on upgrade from the DVD in the way you describe. Worked > > beautifully. It took a long time - I had to remove a couple of packages on > > one machine that failed dependency checks, but other than that, it worked. > > The usual little stuff is broken after the upgrade, but nothing show-stopping > > so far. Avahi ends up with two instances after the update, but you can google > > the fix for that - it's simple. Long time means overnight - there were around > > 1400 packages on each machine that got updated. Both were complete when I > > looked the next morning. > > Thks for sharing your experience. Well, something is definitely broken > on F8 upgrade process, a Core 2 Duo should never need 1+ hour of > processing at 1.0 load to figure out the dependencies -- even if it's > just to realize it can't go further for some reason (eg. third-party > packages -- which I do have, from Freshrpms). I remember experiencing > similar delays with F6 --> F7 upgrade, but it wasn't comparable to > this. It looks like anaconda still needs some serious work. > > Well, a network upgrade with yum should work, but what will happen if > I lose connection for some reason? Will it be possible to recover from > a half-completed upgrade? Is it possible to use yum to upgrade from > the installation DVD? > > I'll try to file a bug report for this (if there isn't one about it > yet) hoping that F9 will come with a anaconda that works =/ > > Regards, > > Andre > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > I think that as soon as anaconda problem is solved, DVD should be re-issued. I am waiting that before wiping out one of my server, for a clean install Luckily I had other computer upgraded by switching from F7 to development repos and finally to F8. I am following same procedure for F9, development repos is already enabled on one of my computer -- Antonio Montagnani Skype : antoniomontag -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
