HOW TO FIX: Rawhide Gnome pretty much dies while updating..

[Jake]

Chances are if your reading this, you was updating your Rawhide today (6 March, 11:51AM 2010), And your gnome panel crashes, ALT + TAB doesn't work, and your terminal window, which was updating Rawhide is gone, and the only thing you have left is Firefox. or, just your desktop wallpaper.

If this is the case, then you've got the exactly same thing what happened to me today, so I decided to write this to prevent lots of topics saying "Rawhide = dead"

If not, and you still have not updated Rawhide, word of advice, update in run level 3.

So, what to do to prevent having to re-install Rawhide?

First off. Do not hit the reset button on the case as tempting as it is, don't do it instead, press ctrl alt f2.

Now type "init 1"

Then type "init 3"

Now login.

Type "top"

If Xorg is the top running proccess and is still running. Kill it.

via


$kill <proccessnumber>


Now what you need to do is:


$yum-complete-transaction


Allow this to run, and let it finish.

It should remove quite a lot of packages, and install/update a few. For me it was install 3, update 15, remove 115.

Once this is complete:


$init 6


Now you should be back in the safe zone, and all up and working. Though if you have proprietary drivers installed such as Nvidia, you may need to re-install those.

Welcome back to your desktop :)

[glennzo]

I updated this morning also. Rebooted to no network connection. There were a lot of errors when booting too. Don't remember what they were right now but I'll post them if I boot 11 again today. Doubtful though as I've got other things on my mind. Worse comes to worse I'll just re-install the mother. After all, at this point it's just a toy and I can always get a new one.

[Jake]

I updated this morning also. Rebooted to no network connection. There were a lot of errors when booting too. Don't remember what they were right now but I'll post them if I boot 11 again today. Doubtful though as I've got other things on my mind. Worse comes to worse I'll just re-install the mother. After all, at this point it's just a toy and I can always get a new one.Yes, I got that to, but that's as simple as clicking the network icon, then "System eth0" and it connected :)

[glennzo]

I didn't even bother, but I will when I boot it again.

[glennzo]

Jake, you were right about the network connection. I did as you said and all is well with that.

[AdamW]

You don't really need the 'init 1' / 'init 3' step. Just switching to a console and running yum-complete-transaction then rebooting was fine for me.

[Jake]

You don't really need the 'init 1' / 'init 3' step. Just switching to a console and running yum-complete-transaction then rebooting was fine for me.I find it's better to clean up unneeded running services/xorg which could be using a lot of CPU, for no real reasons :) There for allowing a faster transaction in yum :)

[AdamW]

I have the luxury of four cores to cover that...I don't generally notice anything slowing down till I have three processes eating 99% CPU :P

[NeoNerd]

Chances are if your reading this, you was updating your Rawhide today (6 March, 11:51AM 2010), And your gnome panel crashes, ALT + TAB doesn't work, and your terminal window, which was updating Rawhide is gone, and the only thing you have left is Firefox. or, just your desktop wallpaper.

If this is the case, then you've got the exactly same thing what happened to me today, so I decided to write this to prevent lots of topics saying "Rawhide = dead"

If not, and you still have not updated Rawhide, word of advice, update in run level 3.

So, what to do to prevent having to re-install Rawhide?

First off. Do not hit the reset button on the case as tempting as it is, don't do it instead, press ctrl alt f2.

Now type "init 1"

Then type "init 3"

Now login.

Type "top"

If Xorg is the top running proccess and is still running. Kill it.

via


$kill <proccessnumber>


Now what you need to do is:


$yum-complete-transaction


Allow this to run, and let it finish.

It should remove quite a lot of packages, and install/update a few. For me it was install 3, update 15, remove 115.

Once this is complete:


$init 6


Now you should be back in the safe zone, and all up and working. Though if you have proprietary drivers installed such as Nvidia, you may need to re-install those.

Welcome back to your desktop :)

i did follow these steps i ended up with about 546 deletions after which system locked up.. if i just let the update end and do another yum update system runs fine (or doesnt crash), but i do get a you have 1 uncompleted job you should do a yum-complete-transaction, but doesnt crash and does the next update. they next time i do yum update i get you have 2 jobs pending please do a yum-complete-transaction and then processes the yum update. now if i yum-complete-transaction on the 2, or 3 even pending transaction. i get a system crash. is there away to delete the " Pending Transactions"
Thanks

NeoNerd

[Jake]

I have the luxury of four cores to cover that...I don't generally notice anything slowing down till I have three processes eating 99% CPU :PWell, I'm stuck with a single core for now :)

Best for me to kill stuff when it's not needed.