Need help testing updates transition for 8 and 9

[Tony Molloy]

On Tuesday 09 September 2008 20:43:52 Arch Willingham wrote:
> I rebooted and tired it again...it sat there for a long time...nothing. I
> then cheated and ran YUMEX. It saw the five  updates and applied them just
> fine. Once the ran I tried running the (System -> Administration -> Update
> System) and again, it just sat there doign nothing. I let it sit while I
> wrote e-mails on another computer...nada. I just cranked up YUMEX for the
> fun of it....wham there it goes. ________________________________________

I'm just running it on another laptop A Dell Latitude 830 and it went no 
trouble. Its downloading the updates now. Could it be an  architecture 
problem I'm on a  i386 and yor're on X86_64.

Another problem I see  Jesse is that when the new repos get installed then the 
updates repo is created as fedora-updates.repo.rpmnew. The original updates 
repo has to be there to do the initial update. I copied the new repo to the 
old one. Should this be done as part of the install. I presume PackageKit 
will not usea repo called ??.rpmnew.



Tony

> From: fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Tony Molloy
> [tony.molloy at ul.ie] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 3:38 PM
> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
> Subject: Re: Need help testing updates transition for 8 and 9
>
> On Tuesday 09 September 2008 20:02:43 Arch Willingham wrote:
> > In the FWIW department:
> >
> > 1. I made the change
> > 2. I saved the file and initiated an update with PackageKit (System ->
> > Administration -> Update System) 3. Five changes showed up
> > 4. I clicked "apply updates"
> > 5. I just sits there...nothing happens. The changes don't apply....it
> > just sits there. 6. I tried clicking close and telling it to do it
> > again...nada...the updates how up but clicking "apply updates" does
> > nothing.
> >
> > Arch
>
> I had the exact same problem on a old Dell D600 laptop. I waited about 20
> minutes and nothing happened. A proccess called kcrypd ketp running every
> minute or so.
>
>
> Eventually I rebooted the machine and restarted the update from start and
> it seems to be working. It's downloading 265 packages now
>
> Tony
>
> > ________________________________________
> > From: fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com
> > [fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jesse Keating
> > [jkeating at redhat.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 1:29 PM
> > To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
> > Subject: Need help testing updates transition for 8 and 9
> >
> > We're quite close to releasing the transition fedora-release package to
> > bring users of Fedora 8 and Fedora 9 to the new updates location with
> > the new key.  However we're seeing some mixed results in our limited
> > testing and thus we'd like to open it for a wider testing audience.
> >
> > In particular we're looking for users of PackageKit on Fedora 9 to test
> > this, as our yum and pirut results have been pretty rock solid.
> >
> > To test, you will need to modify your fedora-updates.repo file in the
> > [updates] section, comment out the mirrorlist url, uncomment the baseurl
> > line and make the line read:
> >
> > baseurl=http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/mash/updates/f$releasever-updat
> >es .jktest/$basearch/
> >
> > (note, if you have updates-testing enabled, you should disable it during
> > this test)
> >
> > Save the file and initiate an update with PackageKit (System ->
> > Administration -> Update System)
> >
> > This should show you 5 or so updates:
> >   fedora-release
> >   PackageKit-*
> >   unique
> >   gnome-packagekit
> >
> > Once these updates are installed, you'll have a new set of .repo files,
> > fedora-updates(-testing)-newkey.repo.  These repo files will be pointing
> > you to mirror manager to find mirrors that have all the newly resigned
> > updates as well as some new updates you haven't seen before.  PackageKit
> > should automatically notice these updates a few minutes after installing
> > the previously mentioned 5 or so updates, and prompt you to install the
> > rest of them.
> >
> > This is where things get dicey.  Once PackageKit downloads all your
> > updates, you'll be prompted to import a new key (see
> > https://fedoraproject.org/keys for currently used keys).  After clicking
> > yes to import the key (after you verified it) the PackageKit dialog will
> > disappear while it does the import, and it should come back, or at least
> > the panel icon will come back to indicate that it is trying once again
> > to install your updates.  The update installation /should/ succeed,
> > that's what we're looking for.
> >
> > You can monitor all of this activity with 'pkmon' on the terminal, which
> > is a good idea because if it fails for you in some way, the output from
> > pkmon during the failure will be important to resolving the issue.
> >
> > Please keep good notes if you experience failures and capture
> > screenshots.
> >
> > Known problems resemble something like
> > http://togami.com/~warren/temp/policykit-error.png or
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461553
> >
> > Thanks everybody for the testing!
> >
> > --
> > Jesse Keating
> > Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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>
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