[nflug] Fedora 7 to 8 upgrade woes

[Pete cummings]

Those upgrades never work out, or you end up with this in-between system 
that stinks.

Clear that drive off and install fresh!  Anything else  would be weak.

K O wrote:
> Folks:
>
> I could use a nudge in the right direction.
>
> I'm attempting to upgrade from Fedora 7 to 8 64-bit.  I got so excited 
> because I burned the DVD on the day of its release.  Unfortunately, 
> fate had to stick its pitchfork in my back side and say, "No, no no!" 
> to my desire to be bleeding-edgingly on top of the newest offerings 
> from Red Hat.
>
> So, here's what happens: it gets to the point of checking for 
> dependencies, seems about to complete, then hangs there.  This 
> checking seems to take longer than what I would expect, and it seems 
> to slow down as time goes by.  (Both of these can be, admittedly, a 
> by-product of my imagination egged on by my impatience.)  The 
> text-only installation indicates that the dependency check gets to 
> 99%.  If I move the mouse, then the mouse pointer takes a few seconds 
> to actually move, then there is some activity indicated at the hard 
> drive and DVD drive.  But I don't seem to get any closer to a 
> resolution.  The disc check comes out with a clean bill of health.  
> I've run rpm --rebuilddb (and even yum clean all for s&gs).  I can 
> update my system with yum when normally booted, and it updates stuff.
>
> An obvious answer is that my hard drive is going south.  If that's the 
> only answer, then I will bite the bullet and get another one.  (I know 
> that a fsck is probably in order, and I will do that while I wait 2 
> days for the dependency check to complete.)  But I'd rather do 
> something else, not the least reason of which is the data transfer.  
> I'm thinking that it's some kind of RPM hell, in which case, how does 
> one debug this? or are there any known, or suspected, RPMs outside of 
> the Fedora repos that cause problems?  (I have atrpms and freshrpms 
> set up as repos: perhaps more.  My gut feeling is that atrpms is the 
> culprit.)
>
> I know better than to install the updated fedora-release RPM.  I've 
> done that before and borked my install, so, unless someone reassures 
> me that this is pretty reliable, I shan't be doing that.  So, if 
> anybody suggests that, then I offer my thanks, but I probably won't be 
> doing that.
>
> So any morsel of advise will be greatly appreciated.
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