It’s still right at the end of that little progress bar. The HDD activity light on my compute continues so I’m hoping it’s not frozen, but just working on figuring out the dependencies on all of my packages. I’m going to give it until I get home today and maybe until I go to bed. After that I’ll have to rethink things - perhaps uninstalling those non-Fedora packages…. q:o(

Upgrading to Fedora 7 didn’t take this long and neither did Fedora 6, but that’s ok - as long as it happens.  It’s nearly done with the dependency checking.  It’s been getting closer and closer to the end of the bar.  Part of me thinks it may be stuck, but after waiting 10 hours to get this far, I don’t want to stop if there’s a chance it will start installing tonight or even tomorrow morning.  Before the next upgrade I hope to have more RAM, as I think that’s probably part of the reason why it’s taking so long.  Just wanted to update how long it’s taking both for anyone else in this situation and for myself so when Fedora 9 comes out, I can remember how long Fedora 8 took.

I tried upgrading Fedora 7 to Fedora 8 a few times when it first came out and it kept getting stuck at 26% in the dependency checking phase. I went on the fedora IRC room and I was told to remove my non-Fedora repos. I didn’t listen because that’s always the first thing they tell you to do and, in my experience, it never seems to be the true culprit. Then I found out online that the update servers were swamped when Fedora 8 first came out. Also, freshrpms didn’t appear to have any RPMs yet for Feodra 8. Tried it again today and it appears to be going much better. It’s taken around 2.5 hours, but the dependency check is almost done. I’m hoping to be able to upgrade today. This last part has been especially slow, so I’m hoping that within the next hour or two I’ll be able to start the actual upgrade process. I’ll post what happens here in case others are having similar problems.

“Nobody love a fat girl, but oh how a fat girl can love” - Sophie Tucker Song

Duc: “Do you like durian? durian?” Brian: “Duran Duran? Sure, they’re an ok band.”

11 Second Club - Nov 2007 - seventh pass from djotaku on Vimeo.

Check out this great short film made in Blender. It’s a must see!! I can’t say more without ruining the plot.

“I like smelly balls the best” - DNA

11 Second Club - Nov 2007 - fifth pass from djotaku on Vimeo.

Many many thanks to Flock engineers Erwan Loisant, Mike Dosik, and Patricia Bacon.  They took time with me over the past few days to get my problem debugged and now categories worked.  Here are the details in case you find yourself in my situation.

First of all, once they told me that it worked on Wordpress blogs in general, I was starting to think that it might be a problem on my end.  It turns out that it was a problem on my end!  After some debugging, Erwan found out that Flock was getting back the message that the pulling of the categories was requiring more than the alloted 8 MB for PHP memory.  So I went in and increased that and now it works!

I’m bit torrenting is as we speak. Get it here. Be nice and download via bit torrent if you can so we can all share in the bandwidth!

And here’s the release announcement: Official Announcement: (To the tune of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”)

It’s close to midnight and something cool is coming through the “tubes” It’s looking real tight, a distro for the experts and the n00bs With Live CDs* so you can try it out before installing Or DVDs so you can have the packages you choose No way to lose