[CALUG] Fedora upgrade unsuccessful

[Bryan J Smith]

First off, the CLI Preupgrade (preupgrade-cli) is new.  I already ran into one 
person using it that had no problem when the ran the GUI Preupgrade 
(preupgrade).  So ssh -X into the box and launch the GUI version if at all 
possible.

NOTE:  Preupgrade is much better than straight media.  _Both_ use the Anaconda 
system (far more intelligence than YUM-RPM alone).  But Preupgrade does all 
pre-dependency calculation and downloads _exactly_ what you need, including from 
all 3rd party software repos, to the hard drive (fast and no chance of media 
errors).  With the media, you're stuck with what's included in the media, and 
it's slower (let alone optical drives have much higher error rates than the hard 
drive).

Secondly, try remounting /boot read-only on the live system, and re-fsck:  
  # mount -o remount,ro /dev/sda1 /boot
  # fsck -n /dev/sda1  (try a dry run first)

I'm still wondering why it didn't fsck during boot, unless you meant you booted 
into the Anaconda upgrader instead of the existing distro/kernel.

Lastly, if you're /boot isn't large enough, try removing older kernels that you 
are no longer booting.  That should solve the problem.

-- Bryan

P.S.  I'm still wondering why Amahi hasn't just moved to Red Hat Enterprise 
Linux (EL) and its "rebuilds," instead of Fedora.  Fedora moves way-too-fast, 
and the ABI/API can change regularly.  With EL, you never upgrade, just update, 
plus there are the "EL rebuild" options (e.g., CentOS).  They could be releasing 
for EL6 now (Red Hat developer subscriptions are cheap, always have been since 
RHN dropped RHL), and others could be running it on "EL rebuilds" when they 
become available.

-- 
Bryan J  Smith       Professional, Technical Annoyance 
Linked Profile:     http://www.linkedin.com/in/bjsmith 

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From: Joe <joe_tseng at hotmail.com>
To: calug at unknownlamer.org
Sent: Thu, June 9, 2011 7:56:15 AM
Subject: [CALUG] Fedora upgrade unsuccessful


All,
 
I’m working on upgrading my Amahi 5/F12 install to Amahi 6.1/F14 and I’m  
running into an issue.
 
First off, during the system check, the installer comes back and says it  can’t 
save the install.img file in /boot (/dev/sda1) because the partition is  too 
small.  Then after I’ve had preupgrade-cli download all the files and  rebooted 
the system, I get a msg saying:
 
“The following file systems for your system were not unmounted  cleanly.  Please 

boot your installation, let the file systems be checked  and shut down cleanly 
to upgrade.  (/dev/sda1)”
 
The reboot does not fsck that partition and I can’t do it while  mounted.  Is 
there some way I can get around this hurdle or can I just use  a F14 install 
disk for the upgrade?