[CALUG] Fedora upgrade unsuccessful

[Bryan J Smith]

What message is the GUI tool giving you?

If things get really messed up, you usually have to clear out the caches 
specific to Preupgrade (under /var/cache/).

Lack of disk space in /boot and /var (or / if /var is not separate) are 
typically the common culprit, as incomplete files will be left if they fill up 
in the middle.  This is common with any distro, as Anaconda-YUM uses /boot and 
/var/cache just like Debian-APT uses /boot and /var/cache too.




----- Original Message ----
From: Joe <joe_tseng at hotmail.com>
To: calug at unknownlamer.org
Sent: Fri, June 10, 2011 7:49:23 PM
Subject: Re: [CALUG] Fedora upgrade unsuccessful

I guess I forgot to mention I did run the preupgrade GUI tool - four times 
total.  Each time with no success.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Bryan J Smith
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 7:32 AM
To: Joe ; calug at unknownlamer.org
Subject: Re: [CALUG] Fedora upgrade unsuccessful

You may need to re-rerun "Preupgrade" and have it validate everything 
including
downloading a new kernel image.  It may have not downloaded a full image, 
and
only a partial, because /boot filled up prior when it attempted to do so.
192MiB is small for /boot these days for more than 2 kernels.


----- Original Message ----
From: Joe <joe_tseng at hotmail.com>
To: calug at unknownlamer.org
Sent: Thu, June 9, 2011 10:01:37 PM
Subject: Re: [CALUG] Fedora upgrade unsuccessful

I just did everything in your suggestion and it still gave me that error msg
at the end:

- I ran the fsck a couple of times and nothing fishy occurred at all.
- I still got the image too large for /boot error after deleting my old
kernel and its associated files.  After I rebooted and the bootloader
configured my NIC, it showed a progress bar for loading /install.img - I
thought maybe it was loading that file into /boot at that moment.

This is what my filesystems look like if it helps at all:

[jtseng at server0 ~]$ df -k
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_server0-lv_root
                      70718880   6393544  60732940  10% /
tmpfs                  1996752         0   1996752   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1               198337     59035    129062  32% /boot
/dev/sdb1            480720592 195744272 260557044  43% /var/hda

Maybe the act of loading install.img somehow "corrupted" /boot....  Any
other suggestions or do I have to fall back to using a DVD?

-----Original Message----- 
From: Bryan J Smith
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 8:15 AM
To: Joe ; calug at unknownlamer.org
Subject: Re: [CALUG] Fedora upgrade unsuccessful

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

________________________________
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?


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