Bug 742042
| Summary: | anaconda should ensure the correct bootloader (grub-efi or grub2) is installed on upgrade from F15, and remove grub | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Keiran Smith <affix> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | David Lehman <dlehman> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 16 | CC: | anaconda-maint-list, awilliam, BobLfoot, dennis, jonathan, pjones, satellitgo, vanmeeuwen+fedora |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | AcceptedBlocker | ||
| Fixed In Version: | anaconda-16.21-1.fc16 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2011-10-13 04:37:57 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 743376 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 713568 | ||
Occurs in Testing of FC16.i386-Beta.RC4 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_16_Beta_Release_Criteria Criteria 9 - "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 " Occurs in Testing of FC16.x86_64-Beta.RC4 also It seems to be caused by the upgrade process leaving a copy of the original GRUB bootloader. Should we not just upgrade the grub package for F16 to be equal to the GRUB2 release currently in use in F16. If we do that it doesnt mean we need to drop support for older grub versions by having a grub-legacy package also but thats just a thought. upgrading via yum is not supported, and beta is already approved: beta blockers can't be proposed after beta release is approved. Adam, I had upgraded using the DVD. This is when package updates are available. are you sure grub2 got installed as part of the upgrade? nothing requires it. though i suppose if anaconda refreshes the 'base' package set as part of upgrade... Yes GRUB2 definitely installed as part of my upgrade. updating to summary. If we confirm this as described it's probably a final blocker, as upgraded systems should be able to run further updates without yum complaints about conflicting packages. Consider this bug to cover the whole issue of what should happen with grub and grub2 packages on a system upgraded from F15 to F16. Updating summary again: let's make this the bug for ensuring anaconda has the right logic on upgrade from F15 to F16. When handling an upgrade from F15 to F16, anaconda should ensure that either grub-efi or grub2 gets installed, depending on whether it's an EFI or BIOS installation that's being updated: pjones says this is a one-liner that is already on the ML for review. (This obviously depends on the existence of grub-efi, so let's depend on that bug). It should also remove the 'grub' package to ensure it doesn't cause any problems, especially if that package is still going to conflict with grub2. This is, I believe, not yet implemented, and the cause of this bug as originally filed. Discussed at the 2011-10-07 blocker review meeting. Accepted as a blocker per criterion "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" due to the impact originally reported in Beta (post-upgrade yum operations complain about the grub2/grub conflict). anaconda-16.21-1.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/anaconda-16.21-1.fc16 anaconda-16.21-1.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |
Description of problem: When running a yum Upgrade Grub has a package conflict with an older version Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): grub2-1.99-6.fc16.x86_64 How reproducible: All the time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run command yum upgrade -y Actual results: Error: grub conflicts with 1:grub2-1.99-6.fc16.x86_64 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem ** Found 2 pre-existing rpmdb problem(s), 'yum check' output follows: 1:grub-0.97-77.fc16.x86_64 has installed conflicts grub2: 1:grub2-1.99-6.fc16.x86_64 perl-Module-CoreList-2.50-160.fc15.noarch has missing requires of perl = ('4', '5.12.4', '160.fc15') Expected results: Upgrade should sucesfully complete