Well, I can ssh to the machine again. It must have rebooted itself when it finished upgrading itself. Uptime is 16:24 and it's about 9:54 now. So that means it rebooted itself at 7:30 PM yesterday. I was in a tavern playing trivia at the time. I am not sure when I rebooted the machine to begin the upgrade. I'd say around 4:30 yesterday afternoon. The message from me below says it was sent at 23:04 -- which is very wrong. I'll have to look into that. Anyway, it seems the upgrade worked. I just had to wait several hours for the machine to reboot itself. Honestly, had I not gone out last night, I probably would have gotten antsy and rebooted the thing myself and maybe made the upgrade fail. Kind of a bogus cli upgrade. There is probably something on the console screen but obviously that doesn't help blind folks. And you'd think people running servers would dislike it too. You have to connect a monitor to upgrade a server? But then, probably Red Hat doesn't really want you to use FC for servers. They'd rather you'd pay the license fee for RH. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Hodgson" <andrew@hodgsonfamily.org> To: "Blind sysadmins list" <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 5:20 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] fedora preupgrade-cli
Hi,
I had a Fedora10 box which I upgraded to Fedora11, it didn't go that smoothly.
The way I did that was:
Yum update rpm Yum update Yum clean all Yum install preupgrade preupgrade-cli "Fedora 11 (Leonidas)"
This left the system in a working state (I think the system rebooted once after the initial upgrade/download), but there was a lot of mess leftover afterwards, I ended up wiping the machine (it was my dev box and /home was mounted elsewhere), and reinstalling. There is only a couple of third party packages keeping me from moving to Debian (or Ubuntu). One thing: there was no X server installed on that machine.
My RedHat upgrade experiences (whether on RedHat 8 to 9, which left me in RPM hel, or upgrading from RHEL4 to RHEL5 (which left me in a Udev mess)) have never gone well.
Thanks. Andrew.
-----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of John G. Heim Sent: 22 June 2009 23:04 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] fedora preupgrade-cli
Anybody know how to use the fedora preupgrade-cli script? I ran it to upgrade a system from fedora 9 to 10. After downloading 900Mb of files, it said "Upgrade will begin after you reboot". So I rebooted. But now I cannot ssh into the machine.
It seems to me that the preupgrade-cli program shouldn't require you to have console access. Else how do you remotely upgrade a fedora machine?
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