F11 upgrade - worse than Windows

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Peter J. Stieber wrote:

> How did you get a shell when you were in the "Please wait while setup is 
> finished.  This may take a while" state?

CTRL-ALT-F2 usually does it when you are running anaconda....

> I'm stuck in this state with a desktop machine.  I'm updating F10 -> F11 
> with the network install CD and can't tell why it is stuck.  I started 
> the install 19 hours ago.

CTRL-ALT-F3, CTRL-ALT-F4, and CTRL-ALT-F5 usually contain interesting 
information during an anaconda install.  I think console 3 has the 
anaconda logs, console 4 has syslog messages, and console 5 has the Xorg 
log.

> Any help would be appreciated,
> Pete

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