Preupgrade testing results.

Wed Apr 16 18:51:47 UTC 2008

Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
> Round one.
>
> Hardware.
>
> Dell inspiron 6000 ( i686 )
> ( 
> http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_b9b84fa4-4248-4c6d-8a4e-904f04246a13 
> )
>
> Testing setup.
>
> Note this is as basic as it gets. standard installation
> standard package selection no extra repo no special partition layout...
>
> Fresh Fedora 7 Default installation
> (  next next next done etc.. ).
> SElinux on.
> Language used during install process English
> Keyboard Layout Icelandic
> Install ( not upgrade )
> IPv6 support disabled.
> Timezone Atlantic/Reykjavik UTC
> Default partition layout, whole disk used.
> Kernel parameters needed during F7 installation = None
>
> System was then updated to latest updates available for F7.
>
> Additional packages installed
> NetworkManager-*  and rpm*.
>
> Preupgrade fc8 src package was then fetch from koji
> and rebuild ed on the F7 host.
> ( Just for my own curiosity  )
>
> I then installed the preupgrade package I had build
> and ran preupgrade,  which ran flawlessly :)
> and then asked me to reboot.
>
> After reboot I had to add the kernel parameter acpi=off <--- !!!
> to proceed with upgrade.
> ( I cant recall if I had to do it with F8 dvd install but will soon 
> find out : > )
>
> I then did update the system and ran preupgrade again (to F9 Beta )
> which I had to use the acpi=off kernel parameter again.
> But upgrade failed and revealed two bugs..
>
> #Bug 1
>
Tested this against rawhide with same resaults and
yes cleared all cache ..
yum clean all rpm --rebuilddb rm -rf /boot/upgrade
and rm -rf /var/cache/yum/anaconda-upgrade

The path entry in grub is still incorrect nor can it mount
the image it fetches..
> Took me quite some time to figure this one out because
> the process seemed to work but for some reason it only
> wanted to upgrade e2fsprogs - 1.40.2-10.f8.i386 ?
> Any way I start looking at the /etc/yum.repo/ and noticed
> that the development repo had not changed to rawhide during
> the upgrade process fixed that and then I look at /boot/grub.conf
> and BOOM there it was staring me  in the face as it
> had been doing the whole time ( I always needed to add acpi=off KP)
>
> Incorrect path given to fetch the image..
>
> Path given..
> method=http://ftp.rhnet.is/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/os
>
> Path I should have had...
>
> method=http://ftp.rhnet.is/pub/fedora/linux/releases/test/9-Beta/Fedora/i386/os/ 
>
>
> # Bug 2
>
> Then I just change the path to the correct one and then another bug 
> revealed it self.
> It started to complain about not being able to fetch the image...
> so I tried different mirrors but to no prevail..
>
> The error msg I should have received was unable to mount image..
>
> <4>ISOFS: Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
> <4>VFS Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev loop0.
> <3>SQUASHFS error: MajorMinor mismatch, trying to mount newer 3.1 
> filesystem
> <3>SQUASHFS error: Please update your kernel
> <3>cramfs: wrong magic <-- lol black magic :)
> <3>FAT: bogus number of reserverd sectors
> <6>VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev loop0.
>
> Another bugs..
>
> # Bug 3
>
> It does not clean up after itself.
> ( Delete /boot/upgrade and remove the entry in grub.conf )
>
> # Bug 4
>
> Outdated Art should default to waves instead of infinity and copyright 
> should say 2003 - 2008
> instead of 2003 - 2007 in anaconda.
>
> It also defaults to installation instead of an upgrade.
> AFAIK we don't keep backup of users data
> so you might wanna default this to an upgrade instead :)
> ( preupgrade right.. )
>
# Bug 5
Does not check if it has network connection before starting
( the preupgrade command ) and fail with msg saying something like
cannot continue no network connection present..
> Total number of F7 packages upgraded by preupgrade 742
> Total number of F7 packages that were not upgraded by preupgrade 131 
> <-- !!
> Total number of F7 packages that were not updated after updating F8 
> 46  <--  !!!
>
> Upgrade error in upgrade.log after F8 upgrade.
>
> error: %postun(avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
>
> F8 update errors...
>
> libsepol.sepol_genbools_array: boolean cron_can_relabel no longer in 
> policy
> error: %postun(avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
>
> Packages not upgraded nor updated after upgrade.....
>
> xorg-x11-drv-dynapro-1.1.0-3.fc7
> libevent-1.3b-1.fc7
> words-3.0-12.fc7
> wavpack-4.41-1.fc7
> bitmap-fonts-0.3-5.1.2.fc7
> gawk-3.1.5-15.fc7
> grep-2.5.1-57.fc7
> aspell-0.60.5-3.fc7
> zip-2.31-3.fc7
> festival-speechtools-libs-1.2.96-1.fc7
> xorg-x11-drv-penmount-1.1.0-3.fc7
> festvox-slt-arctic-hts-0.20061229-1.fc7
> sinjdoc-0.5-4.fc7
> quota-3.14-1.fc7
> festvox-kal-diphone-0.19990610-1.fc7
> dbus-python-0.82.3-1.fc7
> dosfstools-2.11-8.fc7
> libiptcdata-1.0.2-1.fc7
> xorg-x11-drv-citron-2.2.0-2.fc7
> man-1.6e-3.fc7
> mailx-8.1.1-46.fc7
> device-mapper-multipath-0.4.7-11.fc7
> preupgrade-0.9-2.fc7
> ttmkfdir-3.0.9-24.fc7
> htmlview-4.0.0-3.fc7
> bittorrent-gui-4.4.0-5.fc7
> gnome-mime-data-2.18.0-2.fc7
> gnome-netstatus-2.12.1-1.fc7
> fakeroot-1.6.4-15.fc7
> festival-1.96-1.fc7
> gdbm-1.8.0-27.fc7
> libsysfs-2.1.0-1.fc7
> libiec61883-1.1.0-1.fc7
> mktemp-1.5-25.fc7
> libopenraw-0.0.2-5.fc7
> avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7
> ethtool-5-1.fc7
> fbset-2.1-24.fc7
> libopenraw-gnome-0.0.2-5.fc7
> festival-lib-1.96-1.fc7
> openvpn-2.1-0.19.rc4.fc7
> xorg-x11-drv-microtouch-1.1.0-2.fc7
> bittorrent-4.4.0-5.fc7
> kpartx-0.4.7-11.fc7
> rp-pppoe-3.8-1.fc7
> xorg-x11-drv-dmc-1.1.0-3.fc7

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