Bug 475027

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 472933 ***

Why do you need the network configured at all during the upgrade? Did you get the "/boot too small" message?

This has been closed as duplicate so I will move this to the open "bug" and answer this.

Anaconda is *supposed* to prompt you to configure the network in the case that your /boot is too small to save install.img. My testing confirms your assertion that it first tries DHCP without prompting; however my machine is on a DHCP network and so the install proceeds without trouble.

Re-opening this bug. It's is probably a duplicate of an anaconda bug, but we'll need to find a workaround first.

Okay, confirmed, your /boot is too small for install.img, and that's why your upgrade wants network access.

The 100 meg is the default that came from fedora during previous installs, so this probably will be the norm not the exception.

I find that even if I am on machine that uses a boot partition that is large enough for all of the img files it still wants to have a network address and fails without it.  Once I hook it up so that it can do dhcp then everything proceeds just fine, and what appears to be happening is that it is asking for any updates.   One additional clue that might or might not relate, the two machines I had with large boot partitions I ran preupgrade on well before triggering the actual upgrade, like about 3 days.   That might have something to do with its insisting on checking for updates or not.

Now this could be related to netinst  bug Bug 473667.   But the presentation certainly is different.

Asked the anaconda guys; F10 anaconda stage1 defaults to DHCP if you use a kickstart (which preupgrade does) and you fail to specify network options.

You can work around by either removing the 'ks=XX' param or adding a "network --bootproto=static ..." command to /boot/upgrade/ks.cfg. Check http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart for details on the "network" command.

/boot has been 200MB (or larger) by default since Fedora 8. All the available info suggests that most Fedora users have plenty of room in /boot. This is not the common case.

If your /boot is 200MB and you still don't have enough room for install.img, try removing some old kernels before rebooting.

Other than fetching install.img, there's no known reason that a preupgrade-configured upgrade should need the network. It doesn't attempt to fetch updates. If you are seeing that behavior I'd like to see the boot commandline and the anaconda.log, because that's really strange.

Well if I catch it doing that again I will do that.

I do know that at the time I was curious to see what it was doing, and it was busy contacting mirrors and apparently checking to see it it had the latest repo files.   But that was pulled off of a wireshark trace not a log.

Out of curiosity is the anaconda.log file saves some where once the install is complete.   As long as it has a dhcp connection available, which is annoying but doable, the install completes.

Have not been able to grab the files, but I have had this do this on two other 200m plus /boot systems.  There seems to be a common denominator.   It seems to be systems that I ran this on them several days earlier, aborted the actual install and then waited around to a time when I had more time to run the update.  Interestingly enough it was also on a machine that was done immediately, but the clock was fixed in the mean time so that it thought that several days had occured since the preupgrade was run.

Is it possible that some of the repo files have a time limit on them or something?

Saw this bug when looking into something else, and I just wanted to comment that for me the case of /boot being too small for install.img has been the norm, with just a couple of exceptions.  For systems originally installed several releases ago (and upgraded since) there's been no reason to change the size of /boot.

Still having the issue that preupgrade really doesn't work well at all with servers that use static ips.  (FC11 Alpha)

Still a problem with fc11 beta.

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

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*** Bug 508550 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

This seems to have gotten a little better, but frankly it still needs a lot of manual intervention to get the upgrade to occur.   But you can now do a preupgrade upgrade if you sit at the station for an hour or two.

This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Still had to be on site to do a preupgrade upgrade.   But it proceeded without a real hitch with a static ip.   I just had to enter the right data.

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Might be good for someone to look at this and see if it is good enough.   Then either close it, or define how it will be fixed and assign it as appropriate.

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