On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 08:34 -0400, Richard Shaw wrote:
This has not been my experience. I was actually able to update the kernel without problem but several other packages have caused problems, most notably udev which had an issue during reboot with an error about loading the 50-udev-default.rules.
This got filed relatively recently and fixed up. For F9-based images, though, you'll have to do a workaround of removing the /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules.rpm* (or at least, move them out of the way)
I've also had problems with updating xorg. X tried and failed to load, but instead of only trying 3 times it went into an infinite loop.
That sounds like something more general and not live image specific. It'd be worth getting a ctrl-alt-delete in there to reboot and then boot into runlevel 3 so you could grab some logs to file against X
Also, after reading a previous post on this list, I would keep updates to only things you care about since the overlay file records block changes and you will eventually run out of overlay.
This is the case and unfortunately, with things currently in the kernel, I don't really see any way around it. Modulo writing some tool to (likely offline) analyze and rewrite the snapshot file. But relatively deep dark voodoo required to write such a tool
Jeremy