On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 09:17:39AM -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > For the last several weeks, I have been getting "automatic" > F11 upgrade notices on my F10 system. I do not know if > this is a feature or standard operating procedure for this sort > of thing since I have never initiated such an upgrade request > to begin with. > > But then again, I thought to myself... why not? I was getting > tired of waiting for the missing gnome `sessions save' package > which for the most part may never be released for F10. > > So, when I was prompted (automatically from yum?) for F10 to > F11 upgrade, I proceeded to start the update process. After > entering root permission, the upgrade dialog window pops > and and starting "firing away" with the upgrade process: > > "Upgrade your system" > "Preparing system for upgrade" > > + Download release info > + Download installer images > + Determine which packages to install > + Download packages > + Prepare and test upgrade > + Ready to begin upgrade > [Reboot Now] > + Pressed the [Reboot Now] button > On rebooting, it shutdown the services, rebooted, > and grub starts kernel & runs Anaconda. > + X11 "Finding storage devices... dialogbox pops up > + X11 Passphrase dialog pops up. Entered the encrypted disk > password & checked the "This is a global passphrase" checkbox > + X11 "Retrieving installation information for installation repo..." > dialogbox pops up > + "Checking dependencies in packages selected for installation..." > & progressbar shows, takes awhile to complete... > > The progressbar got 1/3 of the way, and then suddenly X11 quits > and proceeds into text mode: > ============================= > [TIME] Starting graphical installation... > install exited abnormally [1/1] > disabling swap... > [...] > unmounting filesystems... > [...] > you may safely reboot your system > [cursor] > ============================= > > So, I had to power-cycle the PC to reboot. > > Grub shows: > ========================== > Upgrade to Fedora 11 (Leonidas) * > initng boot * > Fedora (2.6.27.25-170.2.72.fc10.i686) > Windows 2000 > ========================== > * = new additions due to the upgrade process. > > ==================================== > I have gone through this about 5 times over the > course of several weeks, each time, resulting a > failed upgrade. I can still boot into my F10 system, > nothing was lost or corrupted (as far as I can tell) and > the Upgrade repos still remain in the yum directories. > > Can someone tell me, what is going on, why is it > that Yum repeatedly does this from time to time > due to a normal F10 boot, yum F10 updates, and > occasionally popping up the upgrade process? > > Every time I think "it's gonna work this time..", > upgrades (from F10 to F11) *always* fails. FWIW, the following page (and links) may help https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_PreUpgrade If you can provide a more detailed bug filed against preupgrade, I know there are some folks who would love to improve the experience of preupgrade. I was just talking to them last week, matter of fact... :-) I know problems currently exist with exotic configurations like /boot volume on RAID, and one of the things I've suggested is to look for these cases and then have preupgrade apologize and bail out before doing anything else. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
