Bug 1513823

Summary: System upgrade fails with non-standard download directory
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Przemek Klosowski <przemek>
Component: dnf-plugins-extrasAssignee: Marek Blaha <mblaha>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: Bert.Deknuydt, dmach, domfe, extras-orphan, jkadlcik, jmracek, mblaha, rpm-software-management, vmukhame
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Description Przemek Klosowski 2017-11-16 03:21:39 UTC
Description of problem:
 
My system is a Fedora 26, (upgraded from earlier versions), and I am trying to upgrade in-place to F27. The dnf-based system upgrade requires large amount of space on the root filesystem; I believe the default requires 7+GB for the RPM download and 7+GB of free space for the actual upgrade. Since my root partition doesn't have that, I tried to use a non-standard download directory. The distribution download succeeded  but the subsequent reboot/update fails out.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
python3-dnf-plugin-system-upgrade-2.0.3-1.fc26.noarch

How reproducible: I tried and failed several times


Steps to Reproduce:
1.dnf system-upgrade download --destdir=/home/system-upgrade/fedora-cba4cf65782eccda/packages --releasever=27 --downloadonly --allowerasing
2.dnf system-upgrade reboot --destdir=/home/system-upgrade/fedora-cba4cf65782eccda/packages --releasever=27 --downloadonly --allowerasing


Actual results:
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dnf[931]:  realmd x86_64 0.16.3-7.fc27          fedora            227 k
dnf[931]:  recode x86_64 3.6-46.fc27            fedora            723 k
systemd[1]: dnf-system-upgrade.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
systemd[1]: Failed to start System Upgrade using DNF.
systemd[1]: dnf-system-upgrade.service: Unit entered failed state.
audit[1]: SERVICE_START pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=dnf-system-upgrade comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=failed'
systemd[1]: dnf-system-upgrade.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.


Expected results: successful system update from f26 to f27


Additional info:

Comment 1 Richard Morehouse 2017-11-17 23:09:33 UTC
when i try 
dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=27 --refresh --allowerasing 
it says i need 1535M more space on /
but when i use 
dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=27 --refresh --allowerasing --destdir=/data2/temp 

to use a different directory 
it says that destdir can only be used by the download or downloadonly command

Comment 2 Richard Morehouse 2017-11-17 23:18:45 UTC
after i was able to free up space on the / filesystem i was able to upgrade

when i updated previously from fedora 25 to 26 i used the following and had no problems

dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=26 --allowerasing --datadir=/data/temp

this did not work and it said that datadir was not a valid parameter
dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=27 --allowerasing --datadir=/data/temp

Comment 3 Bert DeKnuydt 2017-11-21 11:54:19 UTC
I have the same problem ...

Fedora 25 --> 26

  > dnf system-upgrade download --releasever 26 --datadir=/usr/data/upgrade/rpms -y
  > dnf system-upgrade reboot

  Does the job. So simple and good...

Fedora 26 --> 27

  > dnf system-upgrade download --releasever 27 --destdir=/usr/data/upgrade/rpms

  Fails saying that '--destdir must be used with --downloadonly or download command' which is _is_.
  Adding --downloadonly circumvents this:

  > dnf system-upgrade download --releasever 27 --downloadonly --destdir=/usr/data/upgrade/rpms -y

  (Does indeed download the stuff as before)

  > dnf system-upgrade reboot

  Reboots the system, starts the upgrade procedure, but fails trying to ... download, as there is no
  network during an upgrade... Crashes and reboots with no work done.

  > dnf system-upgrade reboot --destdir=/usr/data/upgrade/rpms
 
  Says  "--destdir must be used with --downloadonly or download command"

I guess the 'new' version was never tested on anything but the most trivial case..

I ended up using the following workaround...

  > rm -rf /var/lib/dnf/system-upgrade
  > ln -s /usr/data/upgrade/system-upgrade /var/lib/dnf/system-upgrade
  > dnf system-upgrade download --releasever 27 -y
  > dnf system-upgrade reboot

Comment 4 Marek Blaha 2017-11-30 10:01:00 UTC
*** Bug 1515172 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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Comment 7 Jaroslav Mracek 2018-06-28 08:39:03 UTC
The issue is solved by dnf-plugins-extras-3.0.0-1 that was released into rawhide.