Bug 827744
| Summary: | failure to upgrade due to wrong disk space requirement estimates | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Stefan Seefeld <stefan> |
| Component: | preupgrade | Assignee: | Richard Hughes <hughsient> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | urgent | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 16 | CC: | hughsient |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2013-02-13 14:45:36 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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I just attempted to upgrade from F16 to F17 using preupgrade. Unfortunately that failed and left my system in a broken state: When running preupgrade, it informed me that I needed to free up more space to get to the required 3.8 GB of free space. I did so, and started over. This time things ran to completion and I was asked to reboot. After rebooting into the "upgrade" kernel image, the actual upgrade started. When installing the "filesystem" package the installer raises an "insufficient disk space" error, claiming that I needed 2.9 GB, when I only had 1.7 GB. It appears as if one of the components used by preupgrade miscalculates the amount of required disk space rather spectacularly. (Unfortunately that isn't the first time I encountered an error of this kind.) Switching to a different console, and trying to remove packages with yum, I get the error that python can't import the "yummain" module. Rebooting into one of my older F16 kernel images raises a bunch of different errors. Clearly at this point my Fedora partition is corrupt. Is the only option for me to re-install (using an external F16 install disk) from scratch ? Thanks, Stefan