On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 09:20:42AM +0200, Alexander Todorov wrote: > Then anaconda showed a status bar telling me it's finishing the > upgrade process. This stayed on the screen for some 10 minutes and > I thought it was hung (somebody else reported the same on the list > but can't find the thread). Depending on a number of packages you are updating, amounts of memory, a speed of your disk and CPU (probably in that order) this phase may take _hours_ (yes, multiple). Installing from scratch is definitely a faster procedure than updating. You can check that your machine is not dead through a text console but some graphic "I'am not dead but truly busy" indicator would be really nice here. > Rebooting works and > I'm able to log into GNOME. You just interrupted a cleanup phase and that leaves a considerable mess. A crashing update may do that to you but you got yourself into that mess on your own volition. > What's obvious is that there are much more packages installed on > the system and lots of foo-version.fc9 && foo-version.fc10 > packages. Some packages may be really from older systems if they are not duplicates. > Do these duplicated packages pose any risk to the system? You will likely be in a big trouble with dependencies on the next attempt to update. > Is it safe to just rpm -e them? Not really. 'rpm -Va' will likely report hundreds of files missing after such operation. Try yum-complete-transaction instead although 'rpm -Va' may still turn out not to be totally happy. Michal -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
