Is F12 ready to upgrade ? Is it worth it ?

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Wed Nov 25 23:33:20 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 18:28 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Craig White writes:
> 
> > On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 18:14 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> >> Craig White writes:
> >> 
> >> > On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 18:20 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> >> >> On 11/25/2009 05:13 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> >> >> > I'm perplexed by the posts I am seeing regarding F12 upgrades.  Lots of
> >> >> > upgrade issues and darn faint praise as far as I can tell ?
> >> >> 
> >> >> AFAICT, almost all of the upgrade issues are related to preupgrade 
> >> >> demands on /boot's sizes ;-)
> >> > ----
> >> > I don't think so. The list reports seem to center on the big scary
> >> > warning about /boot size but that warning is intentional.
> >> > 
> >> > In my case, anaconda literally hung at the end of the process and I have
> >> > seen another report that claimed the same thing.
> >> 
> >> Define 'hung'. Was the scrollbar moving at all.
> >> 
> >> Generally, hangs like that are often indicative of a hardware problem, 
> >> rather than the software one. Especially the tail end of an Anaconda 
> >> upgrade, which is disk intensive.
> > ----
> > hung as in...
> > 
> > - no disk activity
> > - unable to switch to virtual console <Control><Alt><F2> (# or F3/F4)
> > - no visible activity on screen
> 
> Virtual console switching is driven by the kernel. I can think of only three 
> possible causes that have this result:
> 
> 1) A kernel bug
> 
> 2) A bug in x.org (including the x.org driver for your video card)
> 
> 3) A hardware problem
----
I agree and I lost all opportunity to debug when I pushed the reboot
button but that to me meant hung.

Craig


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