FC4 -> FC8: anaconda looping?

Mike Yates adrodef at fonehelp.co.uk
Sun Dec 9 16:56:53 UTC 2007


This is a pretty busy server which has been long overdue on FC4.
The boot-DVD was thoroughly checked out and worked OK, finding and
offering to upgrade the FC4 with mounts correctly found too. It got
through "Finding packages to upgrade" fairly fast then plodded through
"Finding dependencies" at about 1% per second up to 30% where it stopped
dead for over an hour (twice) so I had to give up. The second attempt
was with non-X anaconda - exactly the same symptoms. There was no clue
on the logging screen (Alt-F3) but when I ran top in Alt-F2,(sadly only
the Busybox version) anaconda was running variably. I'm rather proud of
the dump below, OCR'ed from my camera shot of the monitor because
although I'd booted off a USB-DVD (only CD built-in) I couldn't get a
USB pen mounted.

This is probably something specific to this server (it has a RAID driver
issue) but I wonder if anyone here has seen similar?
Should I wait for (many) more hours?

Mem 440440K used 1634680K free, 0K shrd, 12976K buff, 151792K cached
Load average 1.36 1.25 1.95
     PID USER STATUS USZ     PPID  %CPU    %MEM    COMMAND
     981 0    RW    223M     473   24.8    18.9    anaconda
     981 0    RW    2856     753    0.0     0.1    top
     982 0    SW    36396    981    0.0     1.7    anaconda
     979 0    SW    26284    1      0.0     1.2    anaconda
     974 0    SW    26276    1      0.0     1.2    anaconda
     966 0    SW    26272    1      0.0     1.2    anaconda
     988 0    SW    3764     473    0.0     0.1    hotplug
     473 0    SW    3756     1      0.0     0.1    loader
     753 0    SW    2624     473    0.0     0.1    sh
     1   0    SW    732      0      0.0     0.0    init
     172 0    SW    732      1      0.0     0.0    init
     735 0    SW<    0       2      0.0     0.0    usb~storage
     250 0    SW<    0       2      0.0     0.0    kswapd0
     13  0    SW<    0       2      0.0     0.0    ksoftirqd/3
     7   0    SW<    0       2      0.0     0.0    ksoftirqd/1




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Have fun,
Mike Yates
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Frome    Somerset    England




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