Fedora 10->11 Preupgrade Failure. Franken-system.

[Kevin Bowling]

Hello,

I have an IBM x3650 that was running F10.  I initiated preupgrade-cli 
for F11, which downloaded packages and rebooted the box.  Preupgrade 
came up in GUI mode, but for whatever reason the Radeon R100 card was 
excruciatingly slow and this somehow affected the speed of installing 
packages.  It took nearly 16 HOURS for the upgrade packages to install 
(99.999% CPU idle, barely any disk activity) -- keep in mind this is an 
8 core server and is connected to a high-speed RAID-6 storage system.

After the ~1800 of ~1800 packages were installed, it opened the "Please 
wait while setup is finished.  This may take a while" dialog.  This sat 
for 24 HOURS without completing.  At this point, I rebooted the machine 
because this is a quasi-production QA box and I had people that needed 
access to it.

The upgrade seemingly went well despite, and it booted up.  However 
there are some particularities.  Yum lists both the F10 and F11 packages 
as installed.  One area that seemed to be affected is Java/Eclipse.  It 
is much slower than it should/used to be.

There are two problems here:
1) KMS or DRM, or most likely the radeon video driver are faulty.  The 
textmode framebuffer worked at full speed.  Further, why does 
preupgrade-cli even start Xwindows?  Why would the speed of X determine 
how fast Anaconda ran background tasks?  There was nothing interesting 
in the upgrade logs, dmesg, etc :-(.

2) I now have a franken-system that seemingly has both F10 and F11 
versions of packages installed.  How can I manually clean this up?

Regards,
Kevin