Bug 447720 - preupgrade fails: bootpath_to_anacondapath(stage2_abs) returns None
Summary: preupgrade fails: bootpath_to_anacondapath(stage2_abs) returns None
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: preupgrade
Version: 10
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Will Woods
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-05-21 11:55 UTC by Andy Wingo
Modified: 2009-12-18 06:09 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-12-18 06:09:45 UTC
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Description Andy Wingo 2008-05-21 11:55:57 UTC
Pre-upgrade fails with a traceback on my f8 machine, both the package available
from the f8 repos and from bzr. (For that reason I set the version to rawhide.)

The traceback is this:

wingo@harpy:~/src/preupgrade$ sudo ./preupgrade-gtk.py
Password:
attempting to remove blacklisted package system-config-mouse.None
No package matched to remove
attempting to remove blacklisted package dev.None
No package matched to remove
attempting to remove blacklisted package e2fsprogs.i386
No package matched to remove
attempting to remove blacklisted package hal.i386
No package matched to remove
attempting to remove blacklisted package mysql.i386
No package matched to remove
attempting to remove blacklisted package esound.i386
No package matched to remove
attempting to remove blacklisted package mkinitrd.i386
No package matched to remove
attempting to remove blacklisted package dbus.i386
No package matched to remove
attempting to remove blacklisted package kdeaccessibility.i386
No package matched to remove
attempting to remove blacklisted package kdebase.i386
No package matched to remove
attempting to remove blacklisted package kdeedu.i386
No package matched to remove
attempting to remove blacklisted package kdegraphics.i386
No package matched to remove
attempting to remove blacklisted package kdemultimedia.i386
No package matched to remove
attempting to remove blacklisted package kdemultimedia-extras.i386
No package matched to remove
attempting to remove blacklisted package kdenetwork.i386
No package matched to remove
attempting to remove blacklisted package kdesdk.i386
No package matched to remove
attempting to remove blacklisted package kdeutils.i386
No package matched to remove
attempting to remove blacklisted package kdewebdev.i386
No package matched to remove
attempting to remove blacklisted package gdb.i386
No package matched to remove
attempting to remove blacklisted package kmymoney2.i386
No package matched to remove
attempting to remove blacklisted package gnome-applets.i386
attempting to remove blacklisted package geomview.i386
No package matched to remove
attempting to remove blacklisted package gnome-panel.i386
attempting to remove blacklisted package nas.i386
No package matched to remove
attempting to remove blacklisted package perl.i386
No package matched to remove
Downloading 0 bytes
Available disk space for /var/cache/yum/: 355700260864 bytes
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./preupgrade-gtk.py", line 211, in on_assistant_apply
    self._do_main()
  File "./preupgrade-gtk.py", line 230, in _do_main
    self.main_preupgrade()
  File "./preupgrade-gtk.py", line 426, in main_preupgrade
    (mdev,mpath) = preupgrade.bootpath_to_anacondapath(stage2_abs)
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable

Comment 1 Will Woods 2008-05-21 14:09:09 UTC
That's weird. Where's your /boot partition?

Comment 2 Andy Wingo 2008-05-21 14:46:32 UTC
wingo@harpy:~/src/preupgrade$ mount
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/mapper/isw_dfgjeifecc_RAID1p1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)


Comment 3 Andy Wingo 2008-05-21 14:47:10 UTC
It's a hardware raid of some variety, I think.

Comment 4 Will Woods 2008-05-21 16:57:08 UTC
Ah. dmraid (aka fakeraid), my old nemesis. 

I'm not sure if anaconda's stage1 knows how to handle dmraid. That's why
bootpath_to_anacondapath() is returning None - to the best of my knowledge
there's no usable path we can pass to anaconda stage1.

For now we'll probably have to treat this case as if /boot was unusable. You'll
still be able to complete the preupgrade, but you'll need a (wired) network
connection to download stage2 after you reboot into the installer.



Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 02:18:48 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

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