Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 505388
Preupgrade loads packages from net, not from hard disk
Last modified: 2014-01-21 18:09:47 EST
Description of problem: I started preupgrade, which loaded 3 GB of packages to my hard disk. It also complained that my /boot partition is too small to contain stage2. Then I booted and the installer loaded install.img from net (this is OK). But then when it started to install the packages, the Ethernet and hard disk LEDs show that the installer is loading ALL packages from net AGAIN, although they are already in the hard disk! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run preupgrade with a small /boot partition 2. reboot 3. after install.img is loaded, observe network and hard disk traffic Actual results: Lots of network traffic, very little hard disk activity, very slow progress Expected results: No network traffic after install.img is loaded Additional info:
Created attachment 347464 [details] anaconda.log, program.log, storage.log, X.log Snapshot of logs while packages are being updated
Oh, I forgot to mention that I'm upgrading from fully yum-updated F10 to F11. Here is the line in grub.conf: kernel /upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade stage2=http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/i386/os/images/install.img ks=hd:UUID=fd25fa39-9940-4676-82c1-ef8772ae6922:/upgrade/ks.cfg Here is the ks.cfg: # ks.cfg generated by preupgrade lang en_US.UTF-8 keyboard fi bootloader --upgrade --location=none upgrade --root-device=UUID=a45c5859-23b8-4fb9-84b5-6cfce9b75291 reboot %post grubby --remove-kernel=/boot/upgrade/vmlinuz rm -rf /boot/upgrade /var/cache/yum/preupgrade* %end And ps -ef shows the following arguments: root 758 78 4 20:35 tty1 00:04:34 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/anaconda --stage2 http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/i386/os/images/install.img --kickstart /tmp/ks.cfg --graphical --selinux --lang en_US.UTF-8 --keymap fi --repo http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/i386/os root 760 758 0 20:35 tty1 00:00:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/anaconda --stage2 http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/i386/os/images/install.img --kickstart /tmp/ks.cfg --graphical --selinux --lang en_US.UTF-8 --keymap fi --repo http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/i386/os
anaconda.log says: 20:35:02 INFO : got stage2 at url http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/i386/os/images/install.img 20:35:02 INFO : reset repo= parameter to http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/i386/os i.e. anaconda is discarding the repo set by preupgrade on the boot commandline. I'm not sure how we can prevent that from happening here.
stage2= implies the repo location for transitional reasons, unfortunately. We could probably just put a check for the preupgrade parameter in at the point where we reset repo=. That'd be easy, but doesn't help at all for F11 since it's all loader code.
Does anybody know whether this bug still exists? I'm about to use preupgrade to upgrade Fedora 11 to Fedora 12 now. If this bug still exists, is there a work-around? For example, can I create a bootable USB memory and move /boot/upgrade to it, and then load stage2.img to the USB memory and finally manually edit grub.conf and ks.cfg (and what else) so that I can boot into Anaconda from the USB memory and it would then read the downloaded packages from my hard disk and upgrade the system?
It works! At the moment preupgrade is upgrading my system from Fedora 11 to Fedora 12, and this time it reads the packages from the hard disk! It had to load install.img (stage2) from the Net, but otherwise it does not use the Net.
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-cli.py", line 23, in <module> from cli import * File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 26, in <module> import random File "/usr/lib/python2.6/random.py", line 48, in <module> from binascii import hexlify as _hexlify KeyboardInterrupt A KeyboardInterrupt normally indicates that the user hit Ctrl-C or otherwise interrupted the process. Which is not a bug. What were you doing when this happened?
Ugrade using preupgrade from Fedora 11 to Fedora 12 worked fine last week. Last June preupgrade from Fedora 10 to Fedora 11 loaded the packages twice. I did not interrupt the upgrade. Sorry I can't remember all of the details any more after almost six months.
Ack, comment misfire - that comment was supposed to go to a different bug. My sincere apologies for any confusion. I'm going to close this bug, since it seems to work as expected now. Thanks for testing!