Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 518805
mirror failure gives "preupgrade.PUError: Failed to download installer metadata" and no means of avoidance
Last modified: 2014-01-21 18:11:14 EST
Description of problem: preupgrade fails. Perhaps it worked once, but I need to repeat. Now it fails outright and there is no obvious way to avoid this bad mirror Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): preupgrade-1.1.0-1.fc10.noarch How reproducible: today it is reproducible 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. sudo preupgrade -y "Fedora 11 (Leonidas)" 2. 3. Actual results: $ sudo preupgrade -d 1 -y "Fedora 11 (Leonidas)" /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py:181: UserWarning: Use .preconf instead of passing args to _getConfig warnings.warn('Use .preconf instead of passing args to _getConfig') Loaded plugins: blacklist, refresh-packagekit, whiteout Detected in-progress upgrade to Fedora 11 (Leonidas) preupgrade-main (mirrorlist) url: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-11&arch=$basearch now: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-11&arch=i386 preupgrade (mirrorlist) url: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?path=pub/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/$basearch/os now: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?path=pub/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/i386/os preupgrade-fedora (mirrorlist) url: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-11&arch=i386 now: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-11&arch=i386 preupgrade-updates (mirrorlist) url: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f11&arch=i386 now: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f11&arch=i386 Fetched treeinfo from ftp://mirror.nyi.net/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/i386/os//.treeinfo Failed to download installer metadata Expected results: On 2009-08-20 this worked and I got further in the preupgrade path. $ sudo preupgrade-cli "Fedora 11 (Leonidas)" /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py:181: UserWarning: Use .preconf instead of passing args to _getConfig warnings.warn('Use .preconf instead of passing args to _getConfig') Loaded plugins: blacklist, refresh-packagekit, whiteout Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit preupgrade-main (mirrorlist) url: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-11&arch=$basearch now: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-11&arch=i386 preupgrade (mirrorlist) url: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?path=pub/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/$basearch/os now: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?path=pub/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/i386/os preupgrade-fedora (mirrorlist) url: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-11&arch=i386 now: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-11&arch=i386 ...etc... ...lots and lots and lots of packages (3125 packages) ... Total download size: 3.9GB Download packages? Is this ok [y/N]: ...this took a while to update and completed successfully... Additional info: What I'm looking for here is at least way to avoid the particular mirror at ftp://mirror.nyi.net since it is the one that is failing. preupgrade doesn't seem to move on to another mirror. There will always be broken mirrors. There should be a way to recover from that and avoid them. Inspecting shows that ftp://mirror.nyi.net/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/i386/os//.treeinfo 550 Prohibited file name: /fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/i386/os//.treeinfo
There seems to be some sort of state-dependency here. I redid the preupgrade, accidentally tripping into doing it graphically. I clicked NO to the question of whether I wanted to continue with the currently in-progress upgrade. The GUI output isn't pastable but is also not instructive. The console output is: $ sudo preupgrade -d 1 -y "Fedora 11 (Leonidas)" [sudo] password for wbaker: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py:181: UserWarning: Use .preconf instead of passing args to _getConfig warnings.warn('Use .preconf instead of passing args to _getConfig') Loaded plugins: blacklist, refresh-packagekit, whiteout Detected in-progress upgrade to Fedora 11 (Leonidas) Clearing data from upgrade to Fedora 11 (Leonidas) <------------ answered NO to the question of whether I wanted to continue with the inprocess upgrade preupgrade (baseurl) url: http://fake.url/preupgrade now: http://fake.url/preupgrade preupgrade-fedora (baseurl) url: http://fake.url/preupgrade-fedora now: http://fake.url/preupgrade-fedora preupgrade-updates (baseurl) url: http://fake.url/preupgrade-updates now: http://fake.url/preupgrade-updates Starting the preupgrade again got a new experience $ sudo preupgrade-cli -d 1 -y "Fedora 11 (Leonidas)" /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py:181: UserWarning: Use .preconf instead of passing args to _getConfig warnings.warn('Use .preconf instead of passing args to _getConfig') Loaded plugins: blacklist, refresh-packagekit, whiteout preupgrade-main (mirrorlist) url: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-11&arch=$basearch now: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-11&arch=i386 preupgrade (mirrorlist) url: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?path=pub/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/$basearch/os now: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?path=pub/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/i386/os preupgrade-fedora (mirrorlist) url: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-11&arch=i386 now: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-11&arch=i386 preupgrade-updates (mirrorlist) url: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f11&arch=i386 now: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f11&arch=i386 Fetched treeinfo from http://fedora.secsup.org/linux/releases/11/Fedora/i386/os//.treeinfo treeinfo timestamp: Tue Jun 2 15:01:41 2009 vmlinuz | 2.9 MB 00:09 initrd.img | 18 MB 00:35 Error: Not enough space in /boot/upgrade to download install.img. The installer can download this file once it starts, but this requires a wired network connection during installation. If you do not have a wired network connection available, you should quit now. ...continuing... ... lotsa packages updating ... yumex.noarch 2.0.5-6.fc11 preupgrade-fedora zd1211-firmware.noarch 1.4-2 preupgrade-fedora zenity.i586 2.26.0-1.fc11 preupgrade-fedora zidrav.i586 1.2.0-6.fc11 preupgrade-fedora zile.i586 2.3.9-1.fc11 preupgrade-updates zip.i586 2.31-7.fc11 preupgrade-fedora zisofs-tools.i586 1.0.8-4.fc11 preupgrade-fedora zlib.i586 1.2.3-22.fc11 preupgrade-fedora zlib-devel.i586 1.2.3-22.fc11 preupgrade-fedora zsh.i586 4.3.9-4.fc11 preupgrade-fedora Total download size: 3.9GB Download packages? So this issue seems to have something to do with getting stuck bound to a mirror when restarting a pre-existing (but failed) preupgrade.
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