Upgrade to F16 using preupgrade fails.. - Page 2

jgribbin · #16 27th November 2011, 06:34 AM

.. I think.

I have attempted to use both preupgrade and upgrading from a dvd, both act exactly the same.

It brings up the Anaconda Installer, I expect that. I do the hostname, the timezone, and password, OK.

I then get to the 'Which type of installation would you like?" question. It starts making me nervous as I don't don't see an "upgrade" option. I have tried both "Use All Space" & "Replace Existing..." on different attempts.

Then I get to the next step and it tells me "The install target device will be reformatted..."

I can't bring myself to go on without further assurance. Am I on the correct path?

It may make a difference that I am using software raid1 (mirrored).

Jim G

chauchau78 · #17 27th November 2011, 11:17 AM

Hi Jim,
Is your /var not on the root fs? If this is the case, this is a known bug of anaconda. I already hit it. There are several workarounds on the Fedora or RedHay forums.

esbennn · #18 27th November 2011, 01:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by smellslikefries

I am seeing this problem as well

FC15 doing preupgrade, rebooting and getting "this is probably a bug".

Any workarounds discovered?

Nothing yet, i'm afraid ..

jgribbin · #19 27th November 2011, 10:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chauchau78

Hi Jim,
Is your /var not on the root fs? If this is the case, this is a known bug of anaconda. I already hit it. There are several workarounds on the Fedora or RedHay forums.

I do have a separate partition for /var. Any chance you can post a link to those workarounds, I am having difficulty finding them.

Jim G

chauchau78 · #20 27th November 2011, 10:31 PM

Sorry, Jim. I don't remember where I found them. But a search in the Fedora Wiki or with Google should find them.

jgribbin · #21 27th November 2011, 10:57 PM

Well, I can't seem to come up with the proper combination of search terms right now. Guess I'll stay w/ F15 for the moment.

---------- Post added at 01:57 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:41 PM ----------

I found it!! :-) It was in a "Bugs" subsection of Fedora's wiki..

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/C..._.2F_will_fail

That I can tell, a normal wiki search does no include the "Bugs" subsection.

smellslikefries · #22 29th November 2011, 02:58 AM

Seems my bug is a new beast.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=757939

Hopefully someone from the FC team can look at this.

Thanks all.

jgribbin · #23 29th November 2011, 07:15 PM

Between the "new beast" and what I read in the wiki bug thing I found, I plan to hold off upgrading a bit. I think I want a 2nd complete backup.

All the stuff about raid has me nervous. Makes me wish I had just done a default install on a single hard drive.

jogreen29b · #24 3rd December 2011, 05:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jgribbin

I do have a separate partition for /var. Any chance you can post a link to those workarounds, I am having difficulty finding them.

Jim G

it is here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=748119. Good luck!

jgribbin · #25 3rd December 2011, 06:15 AM

I appreciate the thought, but in addition to the /var problem I have /boot raided.

I believe this is more than I care to deal w/ at the moment.

mR.cOLd · #26 2nd May 2012, 09:43 PM

I have the exact same problem as the original poster. I used PreUpgrade to upgrade from Fedora 15 to 16. When I reboot I get the same error message when Anaconda starts. It says "unexpected error has occurred."

Since this thread is a few months old, I don't know if the problem has been fixed by now.

Any help would be appreciated.

jgribbin · #27 2nd May 2012, 10:33 PM

If the problem was only having a separate partition for /var, I think there is a link in this thread to a work-around, I am not aware of a fix beyond this.

If you combined this with the mistake of raiding the boot partition as I did, you'll likely end up re-installing.

I got trapped in a position of having to re-install because after pre-upgrade downloaded all the upgrade packages to my separate /var partition, /var no longer had enough room for normal operation. My system became unusable due to /var being full before I could figure out a solution to the raid problem.

mR.cOLd · #28 3rd May 2012, 03:54 PM

Well, I only have one Disk but I'm using Windows Vista on the same disk. I boot using Windows and I can choose fedora from the Windows bootloader list. Then I get the Grub bootloader. That's how I dual boot.

Do you think this might be the cause of the problem?

marko · #29 3rd May 2012, 10:40 PM

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Originally Posted by jgribbin

If the problem was only having a separate partition for /var, I think there is a link in this thread to a work-around, I am not aware of a fix beyond this.

If you combined this with the mistake of raiding the boot partition as I did, you'll likely end up re-installing.

I got trapped in a position of having to re-install because after pre-upgrade downloaded all the upgrade packages to my separate /var partition, /var no longer had enough room for normal operation. My system became unusable due to /var being full before I could figure out a solution to the raid problem.

There's no unrecoverable change to the system via preupgrade until you boot to the upgrade kernel. One way you could have fixed that problem would be to use the DVD as a rescue boot disk and boot to rescue mode to delete the packages out of /var/cache/yum/upgrade (some name like that), and then edit the /boot/grub2/grub.cfg to remove the upgrade kernel stanza and remove the upgrade kernel and its initrd file from under /boot.

At that point you should have your space back and be able to reboot to your original Fedora