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Feb

The last Fedora update I’ll ever do.

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Yesterday, I finally finished updating this computer from Fedora Core 6 to Fedora Core 8. I’ve completely swarn off Fedora, and if there were an easy way for me to migrate away, I’d do that instead of these insane upgrades. Here were the major stumbling blocks: 1. The “depsolve hang in upgrade” bug which meant [...]

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Dec

Fedora 8 install woes.

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I tried to install Fedora 8 last night, and just like the last 2 or 3 Fedora upgrades, it failed. This time the problem is that the installer (anaconda) hangs at about 25% done “resolving dependencies” Ugh. I strace’d anaconda and found that it was trying to do something in /tmp, /usr/tmp, and /var/tmp (god [...]

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