Re: Preupgrade to rawhide?

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On 09/23/09 14:34, shmuel siegel wrote:
> Vedran Miletić wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:10 PM, shmuel siegel
>> <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>  
>>> shmuel siegel wrote:
>>>    
>>>> Preupgrade hangs for me on an amd 64bit machine as soon as anaconda
>>>> blanks
>>>> the screen. Better today than two days ago. Now I get a character
>>>> cursur.
>>>> Yesterday I got a blank screen.
>>>>
>>>>       
>>> Anaconda still fails on this machine for preupgrade (maybe the
>>> problem is
>>> the geforce 6100) Any hints as what to look for so that I can file a bug
>>> report? Alternatively, is it possible to force the upgrade into text
>>> mode?
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> Yeap, use preupgrade-cli. And also file a bug, but provide full X.org
>> log and dmesg if possible.
>>
>>   
> 
> 
> I think that you might have misunderstood me. Preugrade, the
> application, is working fine. Anaconda is crashing/halting/whatever.
> Anyway, I tried what you suggested, but there wasn't any difference.
> 1) Can Anaconda be put into text mode for preupgrade (i.e., how do I
> change the grub.conf entry)
> 2) Where are any Anaconda messages going to be recorded?
> 

What kind of video card do you have? If you have a radeon you might try
adding "radeon.modeset=0" to the preupgrade kernel line. I had this same
problem and it took 3 tries to get the upgrade to finish until I added
that option.

Kevin



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