[ale] Fedora oddity

[Drifter]

I'm thinking (always dangerous, I know): I should shut down whatever 
update process is trying to run,
then run <yum clean all> followed by <yum upgrade> and go to a movie.


Sean


On Wednesday, April 13, 2011 03:33:08 pm Drifter wrote:
> Jim,
> I am continuing to scrounge around the dusty recesses of this box.  My
> problem is one program calls another -- and another -- ....
> I >think< the operative program is /usr/share/PackageKit/pk-upgrade-
> distro.sh
> I have no idea what a DOTsh is, but that script points to a Fedora URL.
> 
> When I try to install the rpm I get this:
> 
> "Package preupgrade-1.1.9-1.fc13.noarch already installed and latest
> version"
> 
> and I assume that is what is running.  But on each iteration it
> downloads about 30 MB of data and then barfs.  If, indeed, it is
> working as advertised and picking up where it left off, then it has
> downloaded more than a half gig of data so far.
> 
> Sean
> 
> -------------------------------------------
> 
> On Wednesday, April 13, 2011 03:04:13 pm Jim Kinney wrote:
> > You need to install preupgrade.noarch.rpm. Try the manual route : yum
> > install preupgrade
> > 
> > You are getting the notices on an F13 box since F15 is nearing beta.
> > 
> > Note: I did an upgrade run from F13 -> F14 on several machines with
> > no troubles at all. But I only upgraded AFTER the next version had
> > been out for a few weeks and rpmfusion had caught up with several of
> > my requirements as well (nvidia, wireless nic, audacity-freeworld,
> > etc).
> > 
> > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Drifter <drifter at oppositelock.org>
> 
> wrote:
> > >   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
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > -- ---------
> > > 
> > >  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.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mail.ale.org/pipermail/ale/attachments/20110413/863f101e/attachment.html