Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 473782
upgrading process is trying to locate repository in /mnt/sysimage/cache/preupgrade (notice missing /var)
Last modified: 2014-01-21 18:07:14 EST
Description of problem: not much more to say now, than what's in summary -- I have created in VT2 symlink from /mnt/sysimage/var/cache/preupgrade to /mnt/sysimage/cache/preupgrade and upgrade currently continues Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): preupgrade-1.0.0-1.fc8 How reproducible: happened once (but once is enough ;-)) Steps to Reproduce: 1.just run preupgrade and follow its instructions 2. 3. Actual results: upgrade halts saying that it cannot find preupgrade repository repomd.xml Expected results: should just work
There's a bug in anaconda that makes it fail to find /var properly, if you have it on separate partition. The problem is that anaconda notices that /var is already mounted, and doesn't bother re-mounting it - but it doesn't pay attention to *where* it's mounted, so it checks for the given path (/cache/yum/preupgrade) under your root filesystem rather than under /var. Your workaround is OK, or you can also change the boot commandline so the repo=XXX parameter says: repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade This may be a bug in anaconda.. or it might be construed as a feature. Either way, a workaround will be in the next build of preupgrade.
*** Bug 473692 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
preupgrade-1.0.1 built, should be in updates-testing soon.
preupgrade-1.0.1-1.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/preupgrade-1.0.1-1.fc8
preupgrade-1.0.1-1.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/preupgrade-1.0.1-1.fc9
preupgrade-1.0.1-1.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/preupgrade-1.0.1-1.fc10
preupgrade-1.0.1-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing-newkey update preupgrade'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-11587
preupgrade-1.0.1-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing-newkey update preupgrade'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-11540
preupgrade-1.0.1-1.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update preupgrade'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2008-11437
preupgrade-1.0.1-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
preupgrade-1.0.1-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
preupgrade-1.0.1-1.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.