I don't know if this is to be considered as a bug, an exotic configuration or an manipulation error. When I was trying to upgrade my Fedora to Fedora Core 2.92 Test 3 (86_64), the program blocked. My root directory is on a reiserfs filesystem. Other distributions are installed on the same disk on other partitions. I removed them from fstab before upgrading. When I selected updating (and after a few other replys, like language and keyboard) a dialog box appeared "looking for packages" the mouse did move and the mousecursor suggested waiting, and changed after a regular interval. Only in the beginning there was some disk access, than nothing else happened. When I did try to install without formatting or erasing the partition, I had the same problem after selecting the packages etc. Using a "linux reiserfs" commandline after the bootcd had started up didn't change anything. My old installation is still functional. If I remember well their was no problem installing the old version, I just had to add the parameter reiserfs in lilo.conf to get the root directory mounted.
I hope this is useful
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On Sunday 31 October 2004 05:58, dirk.nissen@tiscali.be wrote:
When I was trying to upgrade my Fedora to Fedora Core 2.92 Test 3 (86_64), the program blocked. My root directory is on a reiserfs filesystem. Other distributions are
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Using a "linux reiserfs" commandline after the bootcd had started up didn't change anything.
Try "linux reiserfs selinux=0". Fedora Core 3 defaults to having SE Linux enabled, but ReiserFS does not work properly with SE Linux so you have to disable SE Linux if you want to use ReiserFS.
I am not sure whether this applies to upgrades (it definately applies for a fresh install). Try it out and let us know if it doesn't solve the problem.