F10 automatic F10 upgrades to F11?

[Daniel B. Thurman]

Kam Leo wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Daniel B. Thurman<dant at cdkkt.com> wrote:
>   
>> Paul W. Frields wrote:
>>     
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>       
>> I have been at the suggested link before, tried it, and it
>> does not seem to change anything other than I have
>> cleaned up a lot of things in the F10 filesystem as
>> suggested.  It did not seem to change the outcomes
>> of the failed upgrade process as far as I can tell.
>>
>> What else can I provide by way of "more details"?
>> Is there something I have left out?
>>
>> As for filesystem layout:
>> =========================================
>> /dev/sda2: ntfs:            29.31GB            /w2kPro
>> /dev/sda4: extd:            160.61GB
>> /dev/sda5: ntfs:            29.29GB            /w-App1
>> /dev/sda6: ntfs:            29.29GB            /w-App2
>> /dev/sda7: ext3:            196.08GB         /boot
>> /dev/sda8: crypt-luks:    101.82GB        /root (lvm)
>>
>> Keep in mind that the above sdaX is not sequentially
>> labeled due to the use of gparted and manipulation
>> of the partitions from a previous configuration prior
>> to installation for F10 at the time. Dunno if this
>> is a big deal or not...
>>
>> As for grub:
>> =========================================
>> # cat /boot/grub/grub.conf
>> # grub.conf generated by anaconda
>> #
>> # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
>> # NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
>> #          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
>> #          root (hd0,6)
>> #          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
>> #          initrd /initrd-version.img
>> #boot=/dev/sda
>> default=saved
>> timeout=5
>> splashimage=(hd0,6)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>> #hiddenmenu
>> title Fedora (2.6.27.25-170.2.72.fc10.i686)
>>   root (hd0,6)
>>   kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.25-170.2.72.fc10.i686 ro
>> root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
>>   initrd /initrd-2.6.27.25-170.2.72.fc10.i686.img
>>   savedefault
>> title Windows 2000
>>   rootnoverify (hd0,1)
>>   chainloader +1
>>   savedefault
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Dan
>>     
> For some reason the installer is having problems with your graphics
> card. At boot prompt type "linux xdriver=vesa". If that fails try
> "linux text".
>   
I have tried what you have suggested, i.e. to use the vesa driver.

I notice that in this case, I was able to see "Checking dependencies
in packages selected for installation..." progressbar @100%, and
very hung.  Mouse movement is dead, keyboard, dead, everything
I threw at it except the kitchen sink, dead. :)

Now what do you suggest I do (and buying a new computer is not
an option! ;) )?