[fedora-arm] Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-21_Beta-1-sda - yum update hung

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 10/26/2014 07:41 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
>>>>>> So I spent a bit of time today getting beta-1.
>>>>> Thanks very much for testing!
>>>>>
>>>>>> First thing I did after logging in was to run 'yum update'  It is
>>>> hung
>>>>>> during cleanup.  Here is where it stopped:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>      Cleanup    :
>>>>>> firewalld-config-standard-0.3.11-3.fc21.noarch            77/121
>>>>>>      Cleanup    :
>>>>>> firewalld-0.3.11-3.fc21.noarch                            78/121
>>>>>> [ 1541.629825] Ebtables v2.0 unregistered
>>>>>> [ 1543.420638] nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (16384 buckets, 65536
>>>> max)
>>>>>> [ 1543.481335] ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
>>>>>> [ 1543.652587] Ebtables v2.0 registered
>>>>>>      Cleanup    :
>>>>>> libselinux-utils-2.3-4.fc21.armv7hl                       79/121
>>>>>>      Cleanup    :
>>>>>> libselinux-python-2.3-4.fc21.armv7hl                      80/121
>>>>>>      Cleanup    :
>>>>>> man-db-2.6.7.1-8.fc21.armv7hl                             81/121
>>>>>>      Cleanup    :
>>>>>> initial-setup-0.3.23-2.fc21.armv7hl                       82/121
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I did the yum update from the serial console.  I am also logged in
>>>> via
>>>>>> ssh if there is some other information you want to see...
>>>>> Which image did you download? Did you complete initial-setup when the
>>>>> system was booted for the first time?
>>>> This seems impossible when using only serial console.  Can't we just
>>>> ditch initial-setup?  I don't think I've ever run it on an ARM box,
>>>> but one of my boxes always starts it on an unseen display.
>>> Today I tried the Fedora 21 alpha, it gave me the "firstboot" menu on
>>> serial console.
>>>
>>> And it's useful, because otherwise you're into editing /etc/shadow so you
>>> can login from serial console.
>>>
>>> But it did not resize my partition either.
>>>
>>> However you can do it by hand without needing a reboot...
>>
>> Can you please provide the command to do this?
> resize2fs
>
thanks.  I will read up on it and add it to my 'steps' document. Got to 
be better than the current gparted process I am currently using.