Last night I tried to upgrade my desktop from f17 to 19 via fedup. When I saw that there was no more disk activity, I went over to check, but it didn't say it was finished. When I used ESC, I found that it had hung at about 65% or so. I had to use the reset button to gain control.
The new F19 kernel failed to boot. The old F17 one did, but once lightdm came up, the mouse and keyboard stopped responding. It required another reset and editing the F17 kernel line (adding 3 at the end) to get to a CLI. In that, the mouse and keyboard work, but using startxfce4 (I use Xfce.) brings up a GUI with a non-responsive mouse/keyboard.
Currently, I'm trying to clear out enough dupes to get things working again, although some of them get stuck in loops. If I need help on that, I'll ask in a different thread. Right now, I'm trying to work out what's causing X to hang like that. I have the Magic Sysreq enabled, and it works from a CLI, but not in the GIU. I'm posting this from my laptop, and I can ssh in from here, if needed, to see what's happening when it's hung, but I don't know what I'm looking for. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
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Something else that might be of use: both /etc/redhat-release and /etc/fedora-release say that I'm running F 19. However, unless I specify --releasever 19 on the command line, yum acts as though it's F 17. And, if I try to do a complete update, it wants to update a lot of packages that (I thought) I'd already updated. I'll let it do that and see what happens, as I can't see it making things any worse than they are now.
The new F19 kernel failed to boot. The old F17 one did, but once lightdm came up, the mouse and keyboard stopped responding. It required another reset and editing the F17 kernel line (adding 3 at the end) to get to a CLI. In that, the mouse and keyboard work, but using startxfce4 (I use Xfce.) brings up a GUI with a non-responsive mouse/keyboard.
Currently, I'm trying to clear out enough dupes to get things working again, although some of them get stuck in loops. If I need help on that, I'll ask in a different thread. Right now, I'm trying to work out what's causing X to hang like that. I have the Magic Sysreq enabled, and it works from a CLI, but not in the GIU. I'm posting this from my laptop, and I can ssh in from here, if needed, to see what's happening when it's hung, but I don't know what I'm looking for. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
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Something else that might be of use: both /etc/redhat-release and /etc/fedora-release say that I'm running F 19. However, unless I specify --releasever 19 on the command line, yum acts as though it's F 17. And, if I try to do a complete update, it wants to update a lot of packages that (I thought) I'd already updated. I'll let it do that and see what happens, as I can't see it making things any worse than they are now.