FC3->FC4 upgrade hangs whilst installing kernel-smp package

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Tue Jun 14 17:37:00 UTC 2005


Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> I'm upgrading my test system from FC3 to FC4.
> Because I don't have a working CD drive at the moment, I'm installer
> from disk, using a /boot/installer directory with the vmlinuz and
> initrd from disc1.iso placed there, and a GRUB entry pointing to it.

Does the grub entry have "ramdisk_size=8192" on the "kernel" line?

> This works up to a point - but I don't get a chance to run mediacheck
> (can I use a boot option in the grub.conf file to invoke this?).

Add "mediacheck" to the end of the "kernel" line in grub.

> although the SHA1SUM checks pass on the iso images.
> 
> Each time the install hangs whilst installing the package:
> 
> kernel-smp-2.6.1-1.etc.

You might want to try removing the SMP kernel (and any old kernels) 
before doing the upgrade and then adding in the SMP kernel again 
post-installation.

One issue I noticed whilst upgrading was that an inordinately large 
amount of free space was required in /usr (nearly 2G on my test 
machine). I believe this is mainly due to the package name change in 
openoffice.org; doing a "yum remove openoffice.org" before the upgrade 
allowed the upgrade to proceed, and I was then able to install the new 
openoffice packages using yum after booting into FC4.

Paul.




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