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    Lost my LVM using Preupgrade from F16 to F17

    Hi,

    I did yesterday a preupgrade, which did not went to good. I did get no Kernel for F17, the cleanup broke after the installation and so on.

    So, i got rebooted into F16 doing a package-cleanup --cleandupes, which cleaned first my system. Afterwards, i erased the Fedora-Release-Info for F16 and i got tons of updates including the new kernel.

    When rebooting then (strange, it seems still to use the old Grub from F16, could this be an issue?) i drop into a rescue-shell from dracut, telling me, that F17 does not find my F17 LVM-Partitions.

    Could it be, that they just are not actived? I found no real help in bugzilla. Any help is very very appreciated

    TIA
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    Re: Lost my LVM using Preupgrade from F16 to F17

    "Afterwards, i erased the Fedora-Release-Info for F16 and i got tons of updates"

    Um...what do you mean by this? Do you actually know what preupgrade is and how to use it?
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    Re: Lost my LVM using Preupgrade from F16 to F17

    Hi Adam,

    I think so. At the end, there should be a cleanup from the old packages. Unfortunately, my box broke there, so i just restarted the upgrade. Unfortunately, the cleanup hasnt been done, so i had tons of dupes from fedora 16, which i had to wipe. Having the fedora-release-notes for f16 and f17 was - in my thought - the reason, why yum tried to update all the packages (f16 and f17). In fact, this time preupgrade left my system in a mess...

    I just continued googling btw. and found an existing bug, where lvm has not been activated. so i "lvm vgchange -ay" on each boot, then it works.

    IMHO, it cant be, that i have to do this on each boot. Also, there are a few error-messages about udevd missing some rules.

    Roger

    EDIT: the yum update has been done after the preupgrade

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    Re: Lost my LVM using Preupgrade from F16 to F17

    moved to Installation.
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    Re: Lost my LVM using Preupgrade from F16 to F17

    Fixed!

    lvm vgscan showed it up correctly, lvm vgchange -ay activated correctly - until next reboot. Seems to be an issue with my broken installation

    had to 'dracut --force --add convertfs' in shell, then it worked.

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