UPGRADE to Xorg-X11, is it safe??

[geneSmith]

Bart Kalita wrote:

> Gene Smith wrote:
>> Is it normal for yum to get very quite (80-90% cpu and very little 
>> disk activity) for a long time after all the header and packages are 
>> downloaded and after printing "Test transaction complete, Success!"? I 
>> killed it and started over thinking maybe it was hung but is is still 
>> being very slow at this point the 2nd time.
>>
>>
>>
> Depending on the amount of the updated files it might take a fair amount 
> of time.

Yum did finally finish whatever it does after "Test transaction 
complelete, Success!". But after (or while) installing the 1st of 312 
package, libgcc (gcclib?), it really seemed hung, so I killed it again. 
It had earlier complained about needing "pyparted" which it had 
obtained. I tried to manually install pyparted with rpm but rpm hung and 
after that I could not get any rpm function to work again without 
reboot. After reboot was able to manually upgrade rpm, python, yum, 
pyparted and possibly others using rpm -Uhv. The next time I ran yum it 
installed all 312 packages ok and did not hang on/after libgcc. Not sure 
what my problem was or if manually installing these packages before 
re-running yum had an effect. Or possibly it was not really hung during 
gcclib but I just needed to give it more time. (The last time I ran yum, 
I gave it a option to print status messages at max level 10. However, 
during periods of intense cpu activity and zero disk, it provided no 
additional info on what it was doing.)