A new problem with preupgrade - CORRECTION

stan gryt2 at q.com
Mon Jun 29 15:12:16 UTC 2009


On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:31:25 +0100
Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote:

> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
> > # yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update rpm yum
> > 
> > Then try
> 
> I'm afraid this doesn't do anything for me:
> ---------------------------------
> [tim at alice yum.repos.d]$ sudo yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update
> rpm yum
> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> updates-testing                                          | 2.8 kB
> 00:00 updates-testing/primary_db                               | 6.6
> MB     00:12 Setting up Update Process
> No Packages marked for Update
> ---------------------------------
> 
> I'm still getting the preupgrade error:
> ---------------------------------
> Failed to fetch release info.
> 
> This could be caused by a missing network connection or a bad mirror.
> ---------------------------------
> 
> 
You could install the fastestmirror plugin for yum, and see if it uses
a different mirror, thus bypassing the bad one if that is what it is.
There is also a plugin called upgrade-helper, I'm not sure what it
does, but it sounds like it is relevant.

Check your network connections with ifconfig.

I think somewhere on the fedora website there is a link to the release
info.  You could download it directly, and put it someplace where
preupgrade would expect to find it.  Or run it yourself (I think it
just installs the new keys and repositories) before starting
preupgrade.  This commits you of course, unless you have the previous
release info and downgrade.

Just some off the wall suggestions, I haven't run preupgrade since F7
to F9, though I might be upgrading that F9 to F10 shortly using
preupgrade.




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