Is F12 ready to upgrade ? Is it worth it ?

Sawrub luckysharma11 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 27 17:08:49 UTC 2009


On 11/26/2009 05:03 AM, Craig White wrote:
> 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:
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>>>> 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
>
>
>    
Install did succeded once for me, without any hang after 3-4 hangs at 
the end of installation. Now i have to hard reboot the system now and 
then, the issue in logged up as 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539494.

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