Extra Extra read all about it - Preupgrade released....

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 17:28 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Interviews/PreUpgrade
> 
> Will and Seth anything you would like to add to testers?
> 
> BTW. Great work guys :)
> 
> You can get preupgrade here...
> 
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=6045
> 
> or do..
> 
> koji download-build --arch=noarch preupgrade-0.9-2.fc8 ( fc9 for fc9 )
> rpm -ihv preupgrade-0.9-2.fc8.noarch.rpm
> 
> If you have koji installed..
> 
> There's no use filing bugs just yet since this has not made it to the 
> components list
> in bugzilla. ( correct me if I'm wrong I did not find it.. )
> 
> Claiming the first bug found :)
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 196, in 
> on_assistant_apply
>    self._do_main()
>  File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 204, in _do_main
>    self.main_preupgrade()
>  File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 358, in 
> main_preupgrade
>    (mdev,mpath) = 
> preupgrade.bootpath_to_anacondapath(self.pu.bootpath+"/"+stage2file)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/preupgrade/__init__.py", line 
> 119, in bootpath_to_anacondapath
>    if dev.endswith(bootdev):
> TypeError: expected a character buffer object

What does your disk partitioning look like?

-sv