Is F12 ready to upgrade ? Is it worth it ?

Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com
Wed Nov 25 23:28:12 UTC 2009


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.
> ----
> 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


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