What the... update on F10 somehow invoked Upgrade to F11?

[Daniel B. Thurman]

Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> Yup, that's right.
>
> I have automatic updates set and somehow, I got a
> F10->F11 Upgrade popup dialog box.
>
> I thought to myself, why not.  F10 was missing
> session-save, so I proceeded, not that I had any
> choice in the matter (the upgrade dialog box
> did not have "Cancel"...
>
> So, after many hours of "upgrading", it seemed
> search my local configuration, started downloading
> and setting up an upgrade configuration list, and at
> the end of that process, left a dialog box with a button
> saying: "Reboot", so I pressed the Reboot button.
>
> What is odd is on rebooting, the screen information
> was telling me that I was booting up as F10...
>
> When I logged in as a normal user, everything seemed
> to be running as F10...  I am sure glad that I did not
> lose the OS in any case and it did come up working.
>
> What's up with that?
I rebooted the system, and noted there was a grub entry
for starting the anaconda upgrade.  I noted that X came
up, searched for storage devices, found one and anaconda
noted that the filesystem was encrypted, and then it
prompted me for my passphrase.  I entered the passphrase,
checked the "global ..." checkbox, then it proceeded to
search for the installation list, then finding it, popped
up the 'Checking dependencies in packages selected for
installation...", and starting showing the progress-bar
moving slowly until it reached 1/3 of the way through
then from that point "zipped" to progress-bar of 100%,
after which several minutes passed and the "clock
icon" stopped moving when I moved the mouse.  I
checked for disk activity for 10 minutes - nothing.
The whole screen frozed up.  No mouse movement, nothing.

At that point, since there was no activity, I rebooted
and tried the same thing over - same frozen result.

Giving up, I tried to see if I could still boot to my F10
kernel via grub, and I was still able to boot into my F10
OS - all is well - the upgrade to F11 failed.

Question: How can I redo the pre-upgrade process since
there is already one installed previously so that I can
rebuild the "installation list" to see if I can start the
upgrade process once again.  Is it possible to delete
the pre-upgrade "area", so that I can run preupgrade
again as it won't let me do so since one already exist?

Seems like there is perhaps something wrong with the
initial pre-upgrade process.