[CALUG] Fedora upgrade unsuccessful

[Bryan J Smith]

As I mentioned, Anaconda is Anaconda, whether Preupgrade Anaconda or the DVD 
Anaconda.  It's not going to let you upgrade a system with unclean file systems.


As such, your issue is with your current Fedora 12 install, and why it is not 
shutting down/rebooting prior.  I have no experience with Amahi, so I don't know 
what it could be doing to Fedora's init process that would cause this.

The solution is to boot into a mode where the file systems are read-only and run 
fsck manually on all file systems.  After that, reboot directly into Anaconda 
for the Fedora 14 upgrade.  And even that assumes the fsck doesn't leave the 
packages in an unknown state after the file system is made consistent.



----- Original Message ----
From: Joe <joe_tseng at hotmail.com>
Sent: Sun, June 12, 2011 10:20:22 AM

Since we last left our caped crusaders...

1. I commented out the "hiddenmenu" option in grub.conf and deleted the 
caches created by preupgrade.
2. I ran preupgrade and got it to cache everything.  When it was all done 
(right before I rebooted), I unmounted /boot and fsck'd it to make sure it 
was clean.  I left it unmounted and rebooted.
3. I still got the "unclean mount" message.
4. I reran step 2 but I rebooted using an F14 DVD.  I got up to the point 
where it asked me to designate a system disk - after I did that THEN that 
"unclean mount" message reappeared.