I rebooted and tired it again...it sat there for a long time...nothing. I then cheated and ran YUMEX. It saw the five updates and applied them just fine. Once the ran I tried running the (System -> Administration -> Update System) and again, it just sat there doign nothing. I let it sit while I wrote e-mails on another computer...nada. I just cranked up YUMEX for the fun of it....wham there it goes. ________________________________________ From: fedora-test-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [fedora-test-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tony Molloy [tony.molloy@xxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 3:38 PM To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases Subject: Re: Need help testing updates transition for 8 and 9 On Tuesday 09 September 2008 20:02:43 Arch Willingham wrote: > In the FWIW department: > > 1. I made the change > 2. I saved the file and initiated an update with PackageKit (System -> > Administration -> Update System) 3. Five changes showed up > 4. I clicked "apply updates" > 5. I just sits there...nothing happens. The changes don't apply....it just > sits there. 6. I tried clicking close and telling it to do it > again...nada...the updates how up but clicking "apply updates" does > nothing. > > Arch > I had the exact same problem on a old Dell D600 laptop. I waited about 20 minutes and nothing happened. A proccess called kcrypd ketp running every minute or so. Eventually I rebooted the machine and restarted the update from start and it seems to be working. It's downloading 265 packages now Tony > > ________________________________________ > From: fedora-test-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [fedora-test-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jesse Keating > [jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 1:29 PM > To: fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Need help testing updates transition for 8 and 9 > > We're quite close to releasing the transition fedora-release package to > bring users of Fedora 8 and Fedora 9 to the new updates location with > the new key. However we're seeing some mixed results in our limited > testing and thus we'd like to open it for a wider testing audience. > > In particular we're looking for users of PackageKit on Fedora 9 to test > this, as our yum and pirut results have been pretty rock solid. > > To test, you will need to modify your fedora-updates.repo file in the > [updates] section, comment out the mirrorlist url, uncomment the baseurl > line and make the line read: > > baseurl=http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/mash/updates/f$releasever-updates >.jktest/$basearch/ > > (note, if you have updates-testing enabled, you should disable it during > this test) > > Save the file and initiate an update with PackageKit (System -> > Administration -> Update System) > > This should show you 5 or so updates: > fedora-release > PackageKit-* > unique > gnome-packagekit > > Once these updates are installed, you'll have a new set of .repo files, > fedora-updates(-testing)-newkey.repo. These repo files will be pointing > you to mirror manager to find mirrors that have all the newly resigned > updates as well as some new updates you haven't seen before. PackageKit > should automatically notice these updates a few minutes after installing > the previously mentioned 5 or so updates, and prompt you to install the > rest of them. > > This is where things get dicey. Once PackageKit downloads all your > updates, you'll be prompted to import a new key (see > https://fedoraproject.org/keys for currently used keys). After clicking > yes to import the key (after you verified it) the PackageKit dialog will > disappear while it does the import, and it should come back, or at least > the panel icon will come back to indicate that it is trying once again > to install your updates. The update installation /should/ succeed, > that's what we're looking for. > > You can monitor all of this activity with 'pkmon' on the terminal, which > is a good idea because if it fails for you in some way, the output from > pkmon during the failure will be important to resolving the issue. > > Please keep good notes if you experience failures and capture > screenshots. > > Known problems resemble something like > http://togami.com/~warren/temp/policykit-error.png or > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461553 > > Thanks everybody for the testing! > > -- > Jesse Keating > Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! > identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
