fedup: it's full of stars

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2013-01-17 at 13:27 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 01/17/2013 01:06 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> > One of the laptops I'm trying to upgrade to f18/x86_64 from f17/x86_64
> > is printing row after row of asterisks after it rebooted into the fedup
> > boot environment.
> >
> > Has anyone seen this before?  Is there a fix or do I have to do a
> > wipe/reinstall from some other source?
> 
> I must admit that your subject line gave me a major Stanley Kubrick 
> moment.  Are there any signs of disk activity or is this all that happens?

Arthur C. Clarke moment in fact. "It's full of stars" is from the book
of 2001, not the movie. Also, the Discovery goes to Saturn, not Jupiter,
but Kubrick thought Saturn's rings would be too hard to film. Just
thought I'd throw that in :-)

poc