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.
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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