Description of problem: If the DVD drive on your computer is flakey then upgrading Fedora using anaconda can leave your system unbootable with many RPMs not installed or only half-installed. Inspecting the upgrade log afterwards will reveal lines of the form: error: unpacking of archive failed on file foo: cpio: read failed - I/O error If this happens, anaconda should at least warn the user that an error occurred. (It is unclear what to do next although I believe that aborting the upgrade at this point and rerunning it later will still result in a usable system, while carrying on regardless will not.) Instead, it runs to completion and pretends that all packages were installed successfully. Similarly, another system that I recently upgraded got as far as successfully installing 190 packages and then started logging lines like: error: db4 error(-30977) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery but the first I knew of this was when anaconda segfaulted after pretending to have installed all 1380 of the required packages. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Whatever version is on the F9 release DVD Additional info: Looks like bug 450820 is essentially the same bug but viewed from a different angle.
Did you first run media check before using the DVD for isntallation?
Media check was deemed unnecessary because the same disc had already been used for several successful installations. Since the drive successfully mounted the disc and installed several packages before failing, chances are that media check would have succeeded. In any case, the point is not that the installation failed, but that anaconda did not detect that it had failed.
*** Bug 474460 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I do wonder about the "duplicate thing" But since this seems to be the active version of the "bug", I would think that some more explanation on the screen might be appropriate. Something along the lines of "several minutes" or even "this could take 15 minutes or more in some cases" would be appropriate.
Indeed this doesn't seem like a duplicate at all (unless the underlying fix is the same). However, that does satisfy my curiosity at what exactly is going on when it says "finishing installation - this may take a while". Prior to F10 this dialogue didn't move at all, so I see the Knight-Rider thing as a definite improvement that lets you know something is still alive. (I always thought it would be much more sensible to clean up each package directly after it is upgraded instead of all at the end, but that's just me...)
They're not really duplicate issues, no, but the fix should be the same. That's why I marked it as a dupe. Perhaps it was the wrong approach, but it probably doesn't matter that much. I had originally attempted to make a progress bar that worked the same way as the regular installation one (printing the package we're processing, moving in one direction, and showing package done/packages total), but there's simply not enough information.
Does make we wonder. I wonder if they could list each package as it is cleaned so it looks a great deal more like something is happening. Right now it kind of looks like the knight rider system is working, but that some underlying process has hung.
We can probably reword the text and add an indication as to what package is being processed, yes. I'll work on doing that just in case we never actually get around to doing the yum callback for F11. Also you consider it more of a Knight Rider than a Cylon? Huh.
I wonder if this could be related to my reported bug 476372
*** Bug 495050 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Now that rpm provides us with the right callback status, this is fairly easy. It should be fixed in the next build of anaconda which means it'll be fixed in rawhide and in F12 beta.
Still not fixed on F12 -> F14 "preupgrade". This should be closed as a dupe of bug 493249, since that seems to have the most current traffic on it. Note that there are quite a few bugs with this complaint, most closed as dupes of one or two core bugs: bug 208725 (dups: bug 450343) this bug [bug 452724] (dups: bug 474460, bug 493249 (dups: bug 532082, bug 597064
That's a completely different bug than the original report. This bug report is about reporting which package has an error, not about which package is being cleaned up on upgrade.
(In reply to comment #17) > That's a completely different bug than the original report. This bug report is > about reporting which package has an error, not about which package is being > cleaned up on upgrade. Chris -- You're completely correct; apologies for the noise. I got lost in too many dupes, apparently. Mostly I just wanted to make sure that the relevant bugs (closed or not) were not forgotten, as the issue of the endless "might take a while" is still there even in the F14 installer. Again, apologies for the noise on this bug. Thanks for all your work!