On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:42:56 +0000, Beartooth wrote: > This may or may not have something to do with the infrastructure > problems. It happened during them. > > Having installed F9 on an EeePC 701, I did some removals with > gnome-packagekit, then plugged in a USB CD/DVD drive, and started > copying a bunch of data from my PCs. > > Of course I soon hit a point where the poor little thing wouldn't > take any more. > > I fired up the packagekit again, picked a bunch of stuff for it > to uninstall, and hit Apply. It hung. Overnight. > > I force-closed it, and went to cutting away things I had added, > by moving them to the trash -- all the time watching the cumulative > sizes by scanning and re-scanning /home with baobab. I got it down to > where, by those scans, I was using about half its 8 GB. (I have a camera > card in it -- couldn't even install F9 when I tried without.) > > I *think* the package kit removed some things before it hung, but > don't know which nor how many. > > Finally, last night, I had occasion to shut it down. I've been in > process of trying to get it to boot for the past hour or so -- without > rhgb. It seems not to be hung, exactly; every once in a great while, the > normal boot messages go forward another line, then sit there ... > > I'd hate to just re-install from scratch -- repeating all the > things I've changed would be a week's work. Is there a better way? I've now tried rescue; it took the chroot, but not a yum command, and I don't know what else to try from /mnt/sysimage. I also tried telling it to "upgrade" (from F9 devastated to F9 normal), and it hung. I'll try again in text mode ... -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Fedora 7, 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6; Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2, Epiphany 2, Opera 9, Firefox 2 & 3 Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
