On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 18:28 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Craig White writes: > > > On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 18:14 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > >> Craig White writes: > >> > >> > On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 18:20 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >> >> On 11/25/2009 05:13 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > >> >> > I'm perplexed by the posts I am seeing regarding F12 upgrades. Lots of > >> >> > upgrade issues and darn faint praise as far as I can tell ? > >> >> > >> >> AFAICT, almost all of the upgrade issues are related to preupgrade > >> >> demands on /boot's sizes ;-) > >> > ---- > >> > I don't think so. The list reports seem to center on the big scary > >> > warning about /boot size but that warning is intentional. > >> > > >> > In my case, anaconda literally hung at the end of the process and I have > >> > seen another report that claimed the same thing. > >> > >> Define 'hung'. Was the scrollbar moving at all. > >> > >> Generally, hangs like that are often indicative of a hardware problem, > >> rather than the software one. Especially the tail end of an Anaconda > >> upgrade, which is disk intensive. > > ---- > > hung as in... > > > > - no disk activity > > - unable to switch to virtual console <Control><Alt><F2> (# or F3/F4) > > - no visible activity on screen > > Virtual console switching is driven by the kernel. I can think of only three > possible causes that have this result: > > 1) A kernel bug > > 2) A bug in x.org (including the x.org driver for your video card) > > 3) A hardware problem ---- I agree and I lost all opportunity to debug when I pushed the reboot button but that to me meant hung. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
