I just installed F-9 on a ThinkPad T43 from the KDE Live CD. All went well, but after the installation I was told that there were some important updates to install. I agreed to the installation, but thereafter as far as I could see I was given no information about its progress. I saw from "top" that system-update was running, and I could see that there was some disk activity - but it was strange (to me) that I did not get the usual report on yum activity.
If this normally occurs, it seems to me that it could cause problems, since someone might easily re-boot while the installation was only half-say through, leaving something of a mess.
If this normally occurs, it seems to me that it could cause problems, since someone might easily re-boot while the installation was only half-say through, leaving something of a mess.
I think the PackageKit-Gnome's system tray icon shows what the package management system is currently doing. You can even click on it and see the queue of tasks to be done.
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 18:29 +0300, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote:
I think the PackageKit-Gnome's system tray icon shows what the package management system is currently doing. You can even click on it and see the queue of tasks to be done.
Only that it's doing something, not what it's doing. I've sat there watching flashing bars and a vague working out dependencies, and installing files titles, but no details about *what* is being installed.
I've turned it off, and will carry on what I've done the last few years. Type "yum update" on a command line, and watch the proceedings.
Not impressed with Fedora 9, so far. I can see this is going to be another release where standard advice is going to be - turn off the package kit updater, remove pulseaudio, etc.
Joonas Sarajärvi wrote:
If this normally occurs, it seems to me that it could cause problems, since someone might easily re-boot while the installation was only half-say through, leaving something of a mess.
I think the PackageKit-Gnome's system tray icon shows what the package management system is currently doing. You can even click on it and see the queue of tasks to be done.
I don't see this icon in my panel. What does it look like? Note that I updated from the KDE Live CD. Is this perhaps only present if one updates from the other, presumably Gnome, Live CD?