Description of problem: When trying to upgrade a fully uptodate F10 (x86_64) using preupgrade, preupgrade terminates with an unhandled exception when it tries to find the UUID of /dev/root. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-cli.py", line 305, in <module> pu.main(myrelease) File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-cli.py", line 219, in main extra_args += " ks=%s" % self.generate_kickstart(extra_cmds=self.kickstart_cmds) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/preupgrade/__init__.py", line 581, in generate_kickstart ks[4] += ' --root-device=UUID=%s' % dev.device_to_uuid('/dev/root') File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/preupgrade/dev.py", line 55, in device_to_uuid return device_to_uuid(device) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/preupgrade/dev.py", line 40, in device_to_uuid if not device.startswith('/dev/'): AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'startswith' Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): preupgrade-1.1.0-1.fc10.noarch How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. preupgrade-cli "Fedora 11 (Leonidas)" 2. wait for the above exception Actual results: above exception Expected results: preupgrade downloads the required packages
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I am also seeing this problem on Fedora 11 Preupgrade on an Acer Aspire One. There is a FIXME in the code here.
In my case it is caused by /sbin/blkid failing to return a UUID for my device. This is because blkid fails to recognise ext4 volumes without a journal.
Workaround: Use blkid (and libuuid and libblkid) from Fedora 12.
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