--- M A Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> wrote: > On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Mike Blatchley wrote: > > > I was upgrading my IBM Thinkpad A21p system from > 7.2 > > to 8.0, and after I inserted disc3, the machine > failed > > to mount it and refused to eject it....eventually > had > > to reboot machine. > > The most obvious cause would be a bad CD image. Did > you check your CDs > by booting with the "linux mediacheck" option? I did check the CDs prior to install. I am now suspecting a possible problem with the install kernel. During my attempted restarts of the upgrade, I have checked the CD's again, and after the installer ejects a disc, sometimes the next disc is "not seen" when I load it; not always the same disc. This is the same thing that happened with my failed install. IDE I/O errors were reported on one of the other consoles. I have not previously had CDROM/DVD problems, so I suspect something in the new kernel. > > I can attempt to restart upgrade, but install > scripts > > hang at the "Finding packages to upgrade...". No > hard > > drive activity, no CDROM activity. > > If the problem is the rpm database, you could try > rebuilding it. Take a > safety copy of the files in > /mnt/sysimage/var/lib/rpm, and run > rpm --rebuilddb --root /mnt/sysimage/ I can at least boot the partially upgraded machine in single user mode, so I will try the database rebuild. Thanks for the suggestions. Mike mblatch@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
