Updater doesn't work

[Smith, Herb]

Hello,

I'm a little late to the party here, so I don't know what has been discussed since
the advent of FC 15.  The main problem I'm having is that the Updater keeps telling me
that there are updates but then when I click it to go ahead and install, it runs into all
sorts of problems with many of the updates and will not execute.  One of the main issues
seems to be with the fedora-15-3 update, but there seem to be dozens that it has troubles
with.

At one point in this process the updater popped up another window with a couple long lists
of programs that needed updating that it was having trouble with and the window was longer
than my laptop screen and I could not see the entire bottom of the window where the
response buttons were located.  The window could not be resized or anything.  The only
choice I had was to cancel the update process.

I'm not that excited about the new Gnome 3, but it will be ok if it gets to the point
where more options are available.  Although bluecurve is all installed (according to YUM),
there doesn't seem to be a way to get it activated in the appearances.  Also
what's with the huge icons?  Is there a way to get smaller icons ?

I have been a Fedora/RedHat user for some time now and have generally been impressed with
the releases up to FC14.  I'm hoping that things will be a bit smoother when 16 is
available.

Thanks for any light (hope) you can shed.

Herb

[Aaron Konstam]

On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 09:48 -0500, Smith, Herb wrote:
>  Hello,
>  
>  I'm a little late to the party here, so I don't know what has been discussed
> since the advent of FC 15.  The main problem I'm having is that the Updater keeps
> telling me that there are updates but then when I click it to go ahead and install, it
> runs into all sorts of problems with many of the updates and will not execute.  One of the
> main issues seems to be with the fedora-15-3 update, but there seem to be dozens that it
> has troubles with.
>  
>  At one point in this process the updater popped up another window with a couple long
> lists of programs that needed updating that it was having trouble with and the window was
> longer than my laptop screen and I could not see the entire bottom of the window where the
> response buttons were located.  The window could not be resized or anything.  The only
> choice I had was to cancel the update process.
>  
>  I'm not that excited about the new Gnome 3, but it will be ok if it gets to the point
> where more options are available.  Although bluecurve is all installed (according to YUM),
> there doesn't seem to be a way to get it activated in the appearances.  Also
> what's with the huge icons?  Is there a way to get smaller icons ?
>  
>  I have been a Fedora/RedHat user for some time now and have generally been impressed with
> the releases up to FC14.  I'm hoping that things will be a bit smoother when 16 is
> available.
>  
>  Thanks for any light (hope) you can shed.
>  
>  Herb
>  
>  
>  
>   
At what point where you notified that their were waiting to be
installed?? Was it when you ran Software Update? Did you use the program
Software Updates to set up the update schedule.  Software Updates wins
the prize for the most confusing name to assign to this program. What
where the Gnome people thinking. Two programs named Software  Update and
Software Updates.
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[Joe Zeff]

On 07/25/2011 07:48 AM, Smith, Herb wrote:
>  I'm a little late to the party here, so I don't know what has
> been discussed since the advent of FC 15.  The main problem I'm having is that the
> Updater keeps telling me that there are updates but then when I click it to go ahead and
> install, it runs into all sorts of problems with many of the updates and will not execute.
>  One of the main issues seems to be with the fedora-15-3 update, but there seem to be
> dozens that it has troubles with. 
Do what I did: turn off the Updater, install yumex and use it regularly 
to update your system.