PreUpgrade help, please - SOLVED

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 20 December 2009 20:12:38 Eelko Berkenpies wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:01:35 +0000, Anne Wilson
> 
> <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On Sunday 20 December 2009 17:18:35 Patrick Boutilier wrote:
> >> On 12/20/2009 01:01 PM, Anne Wilson wrote:
> >> > On Sunday 20 December 2009 16:52:33 Anne Wilson wrote:
> >> >> I've just used PreUpgrade for the first time, and I'm a bit worried
> >> >> about the result.  Everything I see seems to suggest that the system
> >> >> believes me to be still in F11.  I did reboot when instructed, and
> >> >> I've
> >> >> just finished removing the packages listed by 'package-cleanup
> >> >> --orphans', though I haven't yet gone through the rpmnew and 
rpmsav
> >> >> files.
> >> >>
> >> >> What have I missed?
> >> >>
> >> >> Anne
> >> >
> >> > Hopefully solved, anyway :-)  Nowhere in the PreUpgrade notes does it
> >> > say
> >> > that the default will be to continue in F11, or that it is necessary
> 
> to
> 
> >> > interrupt Grub to start the upgrade :-)
> >>
> >> I believe that is a bug. Preupgrade from 10 to 11 booted into Anoconda
> >> by default, but 11 to 12 doesn't.
> >
> > Well, it finally finished, just as I'd begun to think it was stuck.
> > Unfortunately it booted to a black screen.  I tried several times to
> 
> boot
> 
> > with
> > an edited grub entry, without success.  This last time it suddenly
> 
> started
> 
> > up
> > a blue screen with the Fedora infinity sign - and I thought I was
> 
> winning
> 
> > - but
> > it's still sitting there, a black screen with a flashing cursor at the
> 
> top
> 
> > left.  If I don't crack this soon I'll end up wiping it and installing
> > from
> > disk.
> >
> > Later - well, at least I got as far as a text login.  Now I have to try
> 
> to
> 
> > get
> > the display working.  system-config-display is not installed.  Yum tells
> > me
> > that it can't retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for
> > repository:fedora.
> > I have already disabled adobe repo and ATrpms repo, and I guess that
> 
> it's
> 
> > going to fail on all the others too, by the sound of it.  Any ideas?
> >
> > Anne
> 
> For a start, are you really on F12 or are you stuck with rawhide for
> whatever reason? 

Well, if I try a nomodeset boot I see Fedora 12 at the bottom of the screen, 
and uname says it's running an F12 kernel.

> Rawhide has a broken curl which breaks yum with the
> symptoms you are having. Second, obviously, I assume your (inter)net(work)
> works? Third, what kind of video hardware are we talking about? :)
> 
> Most of my similar problems were solved by updating after preupgrade. 
Some
> hassling was involved for me though due to (I hardly dare to speak it out
> loud on this mailinglist) nVidia hardware. :)
> 
Anne
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