On 11/26/2009 05:03 AM, Craig White wrote:
On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 18:28 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Craig White writes:
>
>
>> On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 18:14 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>>
>>> Craig White writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 18:20 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 11/25/2009 05:13 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm perplexed by the posts I am seeing regarding F12
upgrades. Lots of
>>>>>> upgrade issues and darn faint praise as far as I can tell ?
>>>>>>
>>>>> AFAICT, almost all of the upgrade issues are related to preupgrade
>>>>> demands on /boot's sizes ;-)
>>>>>
>>>> ----
>>>> I don't think so. The list reports seem to center on the big scary
>>>> warning about /boot size but that warning is intentional.
>>>>
>>>> In my case, anaconda literally hung at the end of the process and I have
>>>> seen another report that claimed the same thing.
>>>>
>>> Define 'hung'. Was the scrollbar moving at all.
>>>
>>> Generally, hangs like that are often indicative of a hardware problem,
>>> rather than the software one. Especially the tail end of an Anaconda
>>> upgrade, which is disk intensive.
>>>
>> ----
>> hung as in...
>>
>> - no disk activity
>> - unable to switch to virtual console<Control><Alt><F2> (# or
F3/F4)
>> - no visible activity on screen
>>
> Virtual console switching is driven by the kernel. I can think of only three
> possible causes that have this result:
>
> 1) A kernel bug
>
> 2) A bug in x.org (including the x.org driver for your video card)
>
> 3) A hardware problem
>
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I agree and I lost all opportunity to debug when I pushed the reboot
button but that to me meant hung.
Craig
Install did succeded once for me, without any hang after 3-4 hangs at
the end of installation. Now i have to hard reboot the system now and
then, the issue in logged up as
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539494.
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