On Friday 10 July 2009 17:37:23 rgheck wrote: > To add another, I had tried using preupgrade to go from F10 to F11, but > it failed. A lot of packages got installed, and then it died complaining > about being "unable to find root of previous installation", or something > like that. I didn't find anything by googling, so gave up and re-installed. That is normal. :-) While upgrading the rpm database is written all over, if it fails and it does not leave the rpm db in a consistent state there is not much that can be done. How does rpms knows which packages are installed? I had the same problem in my wife's laptop. It has an intel graphics card and for some reason the graphical installer was not able to boot (anaconda crashed). I tried next to pass the xdriver=vesa parameter to the booting option. That worked sort of, the image was completly hosed and I noticed that the disc was being accessed frequently. Since I could not had any feedback, I could change between vt's but there were not any display I decided to abort the procedure. Wrong decision as I found later. :-) Although there was not any visual feedback the installation was proceeding smoothly. When I forced the shut down the disaster was inevitable. :-) F10 still worked but I had a mixed scenario as you describe above. I had a backup of home so a fresh install was a breeze. :-) > If there's one thing about Fedora that annoys me, it is how difficult it > is to upgrade versions. It's enough seriously to tempt me to abandon ship. I suspect that after the graphics turbulence (kms & friends) is over and after the stabilization of the new anaconda storage code the upgrade will be a lot easier. > Richard -- José Abílio -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
