[ale] Fedora oddity

[Drifter]

Derek,
If I were using a CD install, I wouldn't be getting random notices through 
the system.

According to top, the program that is running is "preupgrade-gtk.", which 
seems to not exist on this box!?

According  to ps what is running is 
/usr/libexec/packagekitd

Sean

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On Wednesday, April 13, 2011 01:53:48 pm Derek Carter wrote:
> On 4/13/11 1:32 PM, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> > This is a FC-13 box.
> > 
> > Over the last two days I have been getting frequent notifications
> > that a
> > 
> > "Distribution upgrade" is available -- to FC 14.
> > 
> > When I try to download the files I get the message that metadata is
> > being downloaded and then the process starts "Getting installer
> > images..."
> > 
> > A few minutes later the whole thing stalls after downloading 10 - 20
> > MB with the message that the downloader
> > 
> > "failed to download installer data.
> > 
> > This could be caused by a missing network connection or a bad mirror.
> > 
> > Retry; Quit"
> > 
> > There's nothing wrong with the network connection.
> > 
> > I can not figure out to point the thing to a local mirror, such as
> > the one at GA. Tech.
> 
> Which method are you using to do the upgrade?
> 
> If you're using a CD install you can pass the option "linux askmethod"
> and it will allow you to choose your install tree.
> 
> If you're using yum or some program which does this live, you would
> want to look into the files which exist in /etc/yum.repos.d
> 
> --
> Derek
> aka goozbach
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