Created attachment 1028086 [details] fedup stuck on upgrade Description of problem: Some of my F21->F22 upgrades got stuck early in the upgrade process boot on this message: > upgrade-prep.sh[xxx]: upgrade prep complete, switching root... > systemd-coredump[xxx]: Failed to log coredump: Connection refused The last line is not always printed. A screenshot is attached. Or, if splash is active, it just blinks for eternity. Hard reset is required. After a long time of debugging, I have figured out that this only happens with an original F21 version of systemd. If your system is updated, this problem does not happen. This seems to be 100% reliable. In order to save our users unwelcome surprises, I suggest making F21 version of fedup require the newer version of systemd explicitly, i.e. Requires: systemd >= 216-24.fc21. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): F22 RC2 (fedup-dracut-0.9.2-1.fc22) broken version: systemd-216-12.fc21.x86_64 fixed version: systemd-216-24.fc21.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install F21 from an offline medium (so that it does not get updated). minimal is enough. 2. try to update it with `fedup --network 22 --instrepo http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/22_RC2/Server/x86_64/os/` 3. see it get stuck during upgrade initialization 4. reboot back to F21 5. update systemd 6. re-run fedup to create a new grub menu item 7. run upgrade, see it work this time
Created attachment 1028087 [details] systemd debug journal from stuck upgrade process A journal with systemd debug info from the upgrade process where fedup got stuck, in case someone is interested.
Tomorrow is the release day. We need to move on this quickly. Will, do you have any concerns with this patch? Can you please rebuild it with the spec file change? Thanks!
Since F20 is EOL and fedup is obsoleted in F21+, this bug is kind of moot now. If you happen to encounter it, the workaround is easy: update systemd.