Can yum resume??

[David]

On 10/23/2013 9:49 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 10/23/2013 06:10 PM, David wrote:
>> Not saying that you did ... but I have always had a problem with advice
>> that starts out with "try this" and ends with "it might work".  :-)
> 
> When it comes to fixing upgrades that don't work, the first piece of
> advice should be to make sure that you have a recent backup, and if you
> don't, do what you can to preserve as much of your data as possible. (If
> you can't, that too is a learning experience, but one we'd rather you
> don't go through.)  And, the whole idea of "it might work" suggestions
> is that if they do work, it's faster than a reinstall and if it doesn't,
> all you've lost is time.  And of course, if this is a production machine
> and time is the one thing you don't have, a clean install may well be
> your only choice.



Agree. The problem with "it might work" you answered yourself in the
next paragraph. As for 'saving your data'? Whatever happened to backups
and 'other places'? I have some valubal 'stuff' on my computer. Valuable
enough that I also hat it in three other places.



> One of the problems with this type of support is that those of us
> offering help only have a limited knowledge of your situation and in
> many cases, it's hard to narrow things down enough to be sure that what
> you tell somebody to do is the right thing.  Thus, you sometimes have to
> tell them how to recover, provided that you've guessed right about what
> happened, and hope that your guess wasn't too far off.  That's why I'll
> sometimes ask questions about odd possibilities: I'm trying to narrow
> down the choices.  (As an example, I'll often ask questions about
> hardware because it can save lots of time if that turns out to be the
> issue, and doesn't really waste any if it isn't.)


As I said. It is *much, much faster* for me to download the new release
DVD and format and reinstall and then reconfigure than to roll the dice
and hope for a successful upgrade.

As for stuff like 'my sound doesn't work'? Yeah work on that.

But the problem there is that are thousands and thousands of computers
out there. And the 'same computer' bought from 'the same store' might
not be exactly the same as the the same computer that you have bought at
a different time from a different store.

As for laptops? The same two on the same shelf in the same store could
very well be different from the one next to it.

An honest observation? My point of view?

Grandma/pa want to email the grand kids. To view the web for news
perhaps. Then use Skype. Other things. They do not, IMO, want to type
'stuff' to get things to 'just work'.

Which is what I see from that base disto whose name begins with a 'U'.
Really? Yeah. I had an old friend from almost 25 years ago beg me to
join their user list. I won't name the distros but I see people that I
have not seen 'around' for years.

IMHO? If 'you' want Linux to be accepted as a 'real' OS/Desktop by the
general public? It has to work without all of the really cool Linux
geeky crap that Linux zealots love so much.

You have a great day.

-- 

  David