FC5 Pukes on my machine

[Paul King]

On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 11:27 -0400, Kevin Cozens wrote:
> Paul King wrote:
> > I had seen that, but I was fooled by a link in the RedHat Update (Up2Date) 
> > dialog, which comes up after clicking s button on the "RH Network Alert 
> > Notification Tool". The link on the dialog box opened a web browser to 
> > https://rhn.redhat.com so I could "learn more" about subscriptions.
> [snip]
> > The deal is, that the CDs are a year old, and surely there must be a ton of 
> > updates needed to be downloaded. The RH Notification Tool is supposed to detect 
> > these updates and notify me by an icon in the upper toolbar. It hasn't done that.
> > 
> > And when I tried to coax the process by launching Up2Date, that is where the 
> > trouble started. It began searching a couple of packages, then hung forever on 
> > ImageMagick.
> 
> I used to find that the up2date tool would usually (appear to?) hang if there 
> were too many files that needed to be updated at one time.
> 
> Now that you have mentioned up2date and the RHN tool in relation to FC5,

up2date was mentioned in relation to FC4, upgrading from FC3. FC5 never
got off the starting block. In FC5, Anaconda was the problem, and it
died when it was attempting to upgrade. The error message said that it
was due to a bug in the python install script, and that I should send a
message to Fedora to debug, but the dialog provided no way to actually
do that.

>  I see 
> your problem. Since you are jumping from FC3 to FC5 

FC5 also died for the same reason (anaconda, not RHN) on going from FC4
to FC5. Surely FC5 should reasonably be expected to handle that.

> you aren't aware that the 
> up2date and the RHN Tool stopped being the programs used to update a Fedora 
> Core machine as of FC4. In FC4 you use yum to update the machine. If you want 
> a graphical tool for updating your machine, you can use Yum Extender.
> 

While that is useful information (and I thank you for it), I don't think
that will fix anaconda.

Paul King

> That said, you should check the FC web site for information about the changes 
> in FC from version 3 to version 4 and from version 4 to version 5. You might 
> still be able to use yum but there are other tools provided in FC5 which are 
> meant to keep a machine up to date. I don't remember what the new tools are 
> called off-hand as I am only running FC4. I have not yet updated my machine to 
> FC5.
> 

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