LWN: Comments on "Fedora 13 released"

Fedora 13 released

ummmwhat — Thu, 27 May 2010 12:42:19 +0000

FC12. Yes.

--alex

Fedora 13 released

michich — Wed, 26 May 2010 18:48:27 +0000

Which release were you upgrading from? And did you have the latest preupgrade installed from updates?

Fedora 13 released

ummmwhat — Wed, 26 May 2010 17:04:46 +0000

I don't have a seperate /boot. Freeing up space on / helped. The installer even told how much it needs freed.

It's just that it should tell me to free up space before actually rebooting and failing.

And it shouldn't redownload images if they were already downloaded before.

Thanks for trying to help though.

Fedora 13 released

jspaleta — Tue, 25 May 2010 23:41:25 +0000

And I'll further add... that the restart of the download on reboot that you are seeing may actually be expected because its actually the anaconda installer doing the download. And anaconda is downloading to the virtual filesystem in ram.. not to a harddisk location.

Please check the amount of free space in /boot. I think if you can free up enough space in /boot preupgrade will work as expected..and will download the necessary installer image so the reboot into the installer will run as expected without touching the network at all.

-jef

Fedora 13 released

jspaleta — Tue, 25 May 2010 23:27:56 +0000

Do you have a separate /boot partition? how much free space in /boot do you have? when you were cleaning out space did you make room in /boot?

The only issue I know of that sounds like the symptoms you are describing is associated with a /boot that doesn't have enough free space to accommodate the installer images and is covered in the troubleshooting guide here:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PreUpgrade

If your preupgrade is attempting to grab stage2.img after rebooting into the installer via grub as you have described...that's indicative of being out of room on /boot not /.

-jef

Fedora 13 released

ummmwhat — Tue, 25 May 2010 23:04:09 +0000

Preupgrade is a desaster. After (!) rebooting it noticed that there wasn't enough space left on the disk to install all the downloaded packages. So I made some space on / (deleted gigs! of abrt reports) and rebooted selecting the preupgrade grub entry. That failed, complaining about not finding images. So I started preupgrade again, which then continued to redownload the images! When my ISP did their 24-hourly forced reconnect the download failed after some 200 megs in, so I had to cancel and restart preupgrade yet another time! And what do you know, it again didn't continue where it left off, but starting downloading everything AGAIN! One can only marvel.

--alex