Bug 615640

Summary: AttributeError: 'PreUpgradeCli' object has no attribute
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Andrew Meredith <andrew>
Component: preupgradeAssignee: Richard Hughes <richard>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 14CC: bkelly, martin, rhughes, richard, sergio.pasra
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Description Andrew Meredith 2010-07-17 17:43:13 UTC
Description of problem:

The preupgrade-cli tool has a coding error that prevents it from running. It exits giving error info:

  AttributeError: 'PreUpgradeCli' object has no attribute

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

 preupgrade-1.1.5-1

How reproducible:

 Every time

Steps to Reproduce:

 1. Invoke the command line tool.

Additional info:

This problem also exists in a number of previous versions, notably Fedora 11, 10 and 9. It would be of great benefit to those maintaining remote machines and headless servers if a patched version could be back-ported to those releases.

Please see http://www.wilyness.com/blog/?p=137 for further info and a fix that I have tested across several versions as well as i386 & x86_64. (Cheers Daniel)

I note that some commentators feel that preupgrade is a noddy tool for the masses rather than "the sort of thing a proper sysadmin should use", but I totally disagree. It analysis the quickest path from here to a properly updated and patched instance of the new release, downloads everything needed to a hard drive cache and so allows the fastest possible (remote or local) reboot/upgrade/reboot cycle. This is exactly what I, as a professional Linux sysadmin need.

Comment 1 Richard Hughes 2010-09-20 11:31:40 UTC
I think the new 1.1.7 version should work for you. Can you please verify. Thanks.

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Comment 3 Boyd 2010-11-12 17:49:57 UTC
I am getting this error on Fedora 13, wishing to upgrade to Fedora 14.  I have a headless system, and don't want to use the gui.

preupgrade-1.1.8-1.fc13.noarch installed.

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2010-12-03 13:12:02 UTC
Fedora 12 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-12-02. Fedora 12 is 
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Comment 5 Martin Dengler 2011-05-08 10:08:20 UTC
This bug still exists.  Please re-open and assign to F14 (my system, reproducible) or F15 or Rawhide, all of which have the affected version (1.1.9) according to http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=preupgrade.git and http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=preupgrade.git;a=summary, as you wish.

Attached is the patch from http://www.wilyness.com/blog/?p=137 :


diff --git a/preupgrade-cli.py b/preupgrade-cli.py
index 67683fe..580e9a0 100755
--- a/preupgrade-cli.py
+++ b/preupgrade-cli.py
@@ -44,12 +44,13 @@ from yum.misc import setup_locale
 from optparse import OptionValueError
 setup_locale(override_codecs=False)

-class PreUpgradeCli(PreUpgrade, YumUtilBase):
+class PreUpgradeCli(PreUpgrade, YumUtilBase, YumBaseCli):
     NAME = 'PreUpgrade'
     USAGE = _('usage: preupgrade [options] release')

     def __init__(self):
         PreUpgrade.__init__(self)
+        YumBaseCli.__init__(self)
         YumUtilBase.__init__(self,
                              PreUpgradeCli.NAME,
                              preupgrade_version,

Comment 6 Richard Hughes 2011-05-21 14:51:32 UTC
Applied to git master. Thanks.

Comment 7 Sergio Pascual 2011-09-06 11:10:27 UTC
Reopening, since this is still broken in F-14: preupgrade-1.1.9-1.fc14

Could you push an update to F-14?

Comment 8 Martin Dengler 2011-12-07 20:16:03 UTC
Sorry, my comment was wrong but my upstream patch was right, but looks like the code from my comment #5 got committed.  I will prepare a new upstream patch.

Comment 9 Martin Dengler 2011-12-07 20:30:46 UTC
I have prepared a new upstream patch at https://fedorahosted.org/preupgrade/ticket/66#comment:3

Comment 10 Martin Dengler 2012-05-26 15:53:47 UTC
upstream is still wrong.  I have tickled them at https://fedorahosted.org/preupgrade/ticket/66#comment:4

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Comment 12 Martin Dengler 2012-08-16 23:23:12 UTC
Please reopen and assign to rawhide.  Bug still present.