[ale] Fedora oddity

[Greg Clifton]

Well if you wait till Friday to start the process, you could go see Atlas
Shrugged ;-)

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Drifter <drifter at oppositelock.org> wrote:

>  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
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> > 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
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> > > > > > notifications
>
> > > > > >
>
> > > > > > that a
>
> > > > > >
>
> > > > > >
>
> > > > > >
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> > > > > > "Distribution upgrade" is available -- to FC 14.
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> > > > > >
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> > > > > >
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> > > > > >
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> > > > > > When I try to download the files I get the message that
>
> > > > > > metadata is
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> > > > > >
>
> > > > > > being downloaded and then the process starts "Getting installer
>
> > > > > >
>
> > > > > > images..."
>
> > > > > >
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> > > > > >
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> > > > > >
>
> > > > > > A few minutes later the whole thing stalls after downloading 10
>
> > > > > > - 20
>
> > > > > >
>
> > > > > > MB with the message that the downloader
>
> > > > > >
>
> > > > > >
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> > > > > >
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> > > > > > "failed to download installer data.
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> > > > > >
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> > > > > >
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> > > > > >
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> > > > > > This could be caused by a missing network connection or a bad
>
> > > > > > mirror.
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> > > > > >
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> > > > > >
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> > > > > >
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> > > > > > Retry; Quit"
>
> > > > > >
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> > > > > >
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> > > > > >
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> > > > > > There's nothing wrong with the network connection.
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> > > > > >
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> > > > > >
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> > > > > >
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> > > > > > I can not figure out to point the thing to a local mirror, such
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> > > > > > as
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> > > > > >
>
> > > > > > the one at GA. Tech.
>
>
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