Bug 443756
| Summary: | Upgrading from F8 to F9 Beta upgrades the wrong partition | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Joachim Backes <joachim.backes> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Chris Lumens <clumens> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 9 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2009-07-14 17:49:57 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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I could see that very early during the upgrade /etc/fstab from /dev/sdb9 was taken and overwrote /etc/fstab in /dev/sdb1. I see that according to your mailing list post, you copied the installation so that sdb9 and sdb1 had the same contents. I assume this means that both had the same /etc/fstab file. Now, what were the labels on both of your / partitions? Were they both /F8? You are right, the /etc/fstab was identical on both partitions. But before upgrading /dev/sdb9, the labels were different: /dev/sdb1 was labeled "/F8", and /dev/sdb9 was not labeled! Maybe, this is the problem (perhaps anaconda searched for the partition labeled "/F8")? Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping This message is a reminder that Fedora 9 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 9. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '9'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 9's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 9 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora please change the 'version' of this bug to the applicable version. If you are unable to change the version, please add a comment here and someone will do it for you. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping Fedora 9 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-07-10. Fedora 9 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |
Description of problem: In my F8 system, I have 2 disks: one IDE (Primary/0), and one SATA. On tha SATA disk, Fedora 8 has been installed on primary partition 1 (/dev/sda1) and on the extended partition /dev/sda9. Now, I try an upgrade to F9 Beta on partition 9. The installer makes 2 proposals for the upgrade: /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb9 (these are renamed obviously under F9!). These proposals are OK, so I choose /dev/sdb9. But during install, I saw that /mnt/sysimage was a mount of /dev/sdb1 and not of /dev/sdb9, and when I rebooted the F9 beta after the installation, it was indeed /dev/sdb1 which was upgraded and not /dev/sdb9! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): The current F9 beta. How reproducible: Each time Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot from install media, select upgrade option 2.select the second partition containing F8 3. Actual results: The first partiton is upgraded Expected results: The second partition is upgraded Additional info: /boot/grub/menu.lst in F8 ========================= default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Fedora (2.6.24.4-64.fc8) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24.4-64.fc8 ro root=LABEL=/F8 quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.24.4-64.fc8.img /etc/fstab of F8 ================ LABEL=/F8 / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=tmp /tmp ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=spare3 /spare3 ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=local /usr/local ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=SYSTEM_BACKUP /SYSTEM_BACKUP ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=spare2 /spare2 ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=disk3 /disk3 ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=disk3_BACKUP /disk3_BACKUP ext3 defaults 1 2 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 LABEL=swap swap swap defaults 0 0