Problem upgrading to F8

[jjesurun]

i recently upgraded to F7 and im trying to upgrade to fedora 8 but when it gets to the screen about updating, switching or keeping the boot loader, i choose to update it and it stays at the checking for the dependencies packages dialog box, the bar loads completely but it doesn't do anything afterwards, i left there last nite and it was still there this morning. Any suggestions, or why is this happening?

Any help or any other ways to install it?

[carpetfeller]

Has the system installed everything but the bootloader at that point?

[jjesurun]

no, when i choose the upgrade bootloader choice the checking for dependencie packages dialog box comes out and stays there, doesn't do anything else

[carpetfeller]

Try not upgrading the bootloader. After all it is just a bootloader and you'll still be running F8 if that goes well.

[jjesurun]

so, i should choose the keeping the bootloader option? because when i chose switching the bootloader and it did the same thing

[carpetfeller]

I guess. Are the options referring to updating the bootloader itself or just the configuration files?

[carpetfeller]

You know what I think that the dependencies may have nothing to do with the bootloader choice you make. I think the problem may be with you fedora repositories.

[jjesurun]

well, i dont know what the dependencie packages are, it just that when it gets to that window it doesnt do anything else. What are the repositories u r referring to? how can i check them?? should i download f8 again and do a new burn???? Because there's only 3 choices, update the bootloader, keep it or switch it(make a new one it says) and it always starts checking the dependency packages there and doesn't do anything else.

[jim1944]

See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/F...722c99bd51fb81

The hang resolving dependencies is a known issue.

Jim

[jjesurun]

ok, i read it and it says "if you have a network connection, the easiest is to add "updates=http://katzj.fedorapeople.org/updates-f8-yumloop.img" to the kernel command line.

How do i do that so i can do the upgrade???

[jjesurun]

Originally Posted by jjesurun

ok, i read it and it says "if you have a network connection, the easiest is to add "updates=http://katzj.fedorapeople.org/updates-f8-yumloop.img" to the kernel command line.

How do i do that so i can do the upgrade???

what do they exactly mean by saying add to the kernel command line??????

[carpetfeller]

In grub while booting you can add additional arguments to the kernel. I don't know exactly how but it does tell you. When grub starts press enter then read what it says at the bottom. I think that's where you're supposed to put updates=...

[brr872002]

Originally Posted by jjesurun

well, i dont know what the dependencie packages are, it just that when it gets to that window it doesnt do anything else. What are the repositories u r referring to? how can i check them?? should i download f8 again and do a new burn???? Because there's only 3 choices, update the bootloader, keep it or switch it(make a new one it says) and it always starts checking the dependency packages there and doesn't do anything else.

Don't go for upgrade from DVD, just install fedora-relese-8.rpm ,livna-relese-8.rpm
rpm -ivh http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/...8-3.noarch.rpm

#yum upgrade

After checking yum will give a list of offending packages or dependency failure .

Just remove these packages
yum remove ""package name"

If you go for DVD upgrade later you have to update tons of packages once again.

[jjesurun]

this is what i get when i try to do the fedora-release-8.rpm

[JJ@localhost Desktop]$ rpm -ivh fedora-release-8-3.noarch.rpm
error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/__db.000
[JJ@localhost Desktop]$

could you tell me how exactly i should do it or, should i become root first?