Bug 504991 - "Upgrade root not found" when preupgrading Fedora 8 -> Fedora 11
Summary: "Upgrade root not found" when preupgrading Fedora 8 -> Fedora 11
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: preupgrade
Version: 11
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Seth Vidal
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-06-10 10:29 UTC by Juhani Jaakola
Modified: 2014-01-21 23:09 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2010-06-28 12:51:31 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
anaconda.log (30.81 KB, text/plain)
2009-06-10 10:39 UTC, Juhani Jaakola
no flags Details
program.log (13.63 KB, application/octet-stream)
2009-06-10 10:40 UTC, Juhani Jaakola
no flags Details
storage.log (29.55 KB, text/plain)
2009-06-10 10:40 UTC, Juhani Jaakola
no flags Details

Description Juhani Jaakola 2009-06-10 10:29:12 UTC
Description of problem:

I installed yesterday evening the latest preupgrade for Fedora 8 and after rebooting (and loading install.img from Internet because my /boot was too small for it) I got the error "Upgrade root not found"

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install preupgrade in Fedora 8
2. preupgrade
3. reboot
  
Actual results:
Error "Upgrade root not found"

Expected results:
Upgrade to Fedora 11

Additional info:
Here are output from different virtual consoles during the bug with Fedora 8 preupgrade:

Ctrl+Alt+F3:
WARNING : Step complete does not exist
INFO : moving (1) to step findrootparts
INFO: Set SELinux context for mountpoint /mnt/sysiamge to None
INFO: Set SELinux context for newly mounted filesystem root at /mnt/sysimage to system_u:object_r:mnt_t:s0
[similar SELinux messages deleted]
WARNING : Step complete does not exist
INFO : moving (1) to step upgrademount

Ctrl+Alt+F4:
...
<6>EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
<7>SELinux: initialized (dev sda9, type ext3), uses xattr.
<4>CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 15000 nsec

I had disabled SElinux in Fedora 8.

Comment 1 Juhani Jaakola 2009-06-10 10:39:35 UTC
Created attachment 347194 [details]
anaconda.log

Comment 2 Juhani Jaakola 2009-06-10 10:40:20 UTC
Created attachment 347195 [details]
program.log

Comment 3 Juhani Jaakola 2009-06-10 10:40:50 UTC
Created attachment 347196 [details]
storage.log

Comment 4 Andy Lindeberg 2009-06-10 14:13:34 UTC
Anaconda explicitly does not support upgrading from more than two versions ago, and had you run an upgrade within anaconda, we would not have allowed you to continue.

If preupgrade is allowing you to try to upgrade from 8 to 11, that's a bug in preupgrade, not in anaconda. Reassigning.

Comment 5 daryl 2009-06-23 21:28:32 UTC
I dont think this is related to upgrading fedora 8 ->11(although the wiki claims this is possible)

I have the same exact issue using preupgrade from FC10 -> FC11 with the exact same error messages.

Comment 6 John Stracke 2009-07-27 14:55:05 UTC
(In reply to comment #5)

> I have the same exact issue using preupgrade from FC10 -> FC11 with the exact
> same error messages.  

So do I.

Comment 7 Matthew 2009-10-08 06:39:54 UTC
Maybe there's a solution. Try to upgrade your system iteratively but directly using preupgrade somehow.

1. FC8 -> FC10
2. FC10 -> FC11

It works.

Comment 8 Brian 2009-10-19 23:35:12 UTC
I'm doing a completely default preupgrade from Fedora 8 to Fedora 11, and consistently getting this error.  Fresh install of Fedora 8, nothing special on the partitioning.  The only thing I changed from the default is to remove the default 2gb swap and add 2x4gb swap partitions.  No dual-booting, nothing special.

I built the Fedora 8 system today, completely updated it via yum, installed preupgrade.  I then run preupgrade-cli or preupgrade (have messed with both) and do the reboot.  When I reboot it tells me the upgrade root was not found.

The clearpart --none workaround did nothing.

According to this:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PreUpgrade

It seems like this "should" work.

----

The above comment about going only 2 steps isn't really a "solution".  The purpose of preupgrade is to: "PreUpgrade provides an upgrade directly to the latest version of Fedora. It is not necessary to upgrade to intermediate versions."

I'm trying to use preupgrade to skip iterative steps.  I have to upgrade 85 hosts.  If I wanted to do iterative upgrades, I'd use yum, it's far more convenient for upgrading systems remotely.

Comment 9 Bug Zapper 2010-04-27 14:43:29 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 11 is nearing its end of life.
Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining
and issuing updates for Fedora 11.  It is Fedora's policy to close all
bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained.  At that time
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Comment 10 Scott Williams 2010-05-08 21:35:57 UTC
I would like to note that the way Fedora handles dev roots in grub has changed since f8. It used to go by device name such as /dev/sda2, but there was a change to using the UUID instead. Try running /sbin/blkid to get the UUID for the partitions and see if that helps with this error.

Comment 11 Bug Zapper 2010-06-28 12:51:31 UTC
Fedora 11 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-06-25. Fedora 11 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.


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