Bug 735060
| Summary: | Misleading error message when trying to upgrade across arches ("This is likely due to it being too old") | ||||||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Kamil Páral <kparal> | ||||||||||
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Brian Lane <bcl> | ||||||||||
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||||||||
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |||||||||||
| Priority: | unspecified | ||||||||||||
| Version: | 17 | CC: | awilliam, jonathan, vanmeeuwen+fedora | ||||||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Reopened | ||||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||||||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||||||||||||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||||||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | anaconda-17.8-1 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2012-06-04 23:55:09 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||||||
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| Bug Depends On: | 798691 | ||||||||||||
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Created attachment 520988 [details]
anaconda.log
Created attachment 520989 [details]
program.log
Created attachment 520990 [details]
storage.log
Beta blocker: The installer must be able to successfully complete an upgrade installation from a clean, fully updated default installation (from any official install medium) of the previous stable Fedora release, either via preupgrade or by booting to the installer manually. The upgraded system must meet all release criteria https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_16_Beta_Release_Criteria +1 blocker for me. Can you boot into your old system and collect some info?
cat /etc/fedora-release
rpm -q --qf '%{nevra}\n' initscripts
Thanks.
# cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora release 15 (Lovelock)
# rpm -q --qf '%{nevra}\n' initscripts
initscripts-9.30-2.fc15.i686
Your f15 is 32-bit and you are trying to upgrade to 64-bit f16. You cannot upgrade a 32-bit installation to a 64-bit installation. They are two different architectures. Ouch, I really did that unintentionally. Sorry for confusion.
By the way, could we have a more clarifying error message in this case? Because currently the message is weird ("You have too old release, Fedora 15"). What about "You have incompatible system architecture"?
Dropping beta blocker status, adjusting bug to reflect comment #9. Still present in F16 RC2. This isn't going to make it into F16 -- I had thought it was fixed by someone else, but that ends up to have been an iso arch mismatch, not upgrades. I'll make sure it gets into rawhide though. I reported bug 798691 which blocks this one. Because I proposed it as blocker bug, I wanted it to be easily readable, so I did not reuse this one. Once bug 798691 is resolved, it will most probably resolve also this one. |
Created attachment 520987 [details] screenshot Description of problem: I have Fedora 15 installed. Anaconda says it can't upgrade it, because it's too old. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-16.16 F16 Beta TC1