F11 upgrade - worse than Windows

[Simon Andrews]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I'm trying to upgrade a Thinkpad T23 (with preupgrade) from F10.
> Everything went fine until "Finishing upgrade process",
> which has been running now for 14 hours,
> with that ghastly imitation-Windows yo-yo swinging from side to side.
> 
> I am told, "This may take a little while" !!!
> 
> Please, this is Linux.
> Tell us what is happening,
> and show us what progress is being made.

I saw this too (but not for that long).  Going into a shell I saw that 
anaconda was only taking ~2%CPU and that my load averages were low and 
that no significant data was coming in over the network, so I'm not sure 
what is happening over this time.

It might be worth filing a bug about this since it doesn't seem right 
that the computer sits in an idle state for so long at the end of the 
install.  I suspect that it should be a lot quicker than this and that 
on some systems something takes ages to time out.

Simon.