[ale] Fedora oddity

[Drifter]

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/20110413/4a16965c/attachment.html