Description of problem: Attempting to upgrade from Frdora 11 via preupgrade Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Upgrade from F11 -> F12 (rawhide) How reproducible: run preupgrade -> Reboot Steps to Reproduce: 1. Reboot (as a part of update) 2. Anaconda fails. 3. Actual results: Anaconda fails to start X -> update fails. I can still boot F11. Expected results: Anaconda runs and updates to F12 (rawhide) Additional info: Video card : nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7600] See log (it is long) anaconda.log
Created attachment 369653 [details] anaconda.log Here is the anaconda.log
I don't see anything in your anaconda.log that indicates an X failure. Can you please also attach /tmp/X.log to this bug report? Thanks.
OK, for additional information : run preupgrade -> reboot -> anaconda starts -> then it drops to a shell : " Running anaconda 13.8, the Fedora system installer - please wait. 04:36:11 X startup failed, falling back to text mode Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 937, in <module> time.sleep(2) File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 910, in sigchld_handler raise OSError OSError install exited abnormally [1,1] you may safely reboot your system" I will attach the logs
Created attachment 369826 [details] X.log X.log
Created attachment 369827 [details] anaconda.log anaconda.log
Ok, so we seem to have 2 issues here: 1) Xorg does not like your card 2) We fail to fall back to text mode, somehow we get the OSError thrown by our custom sigchild handler twice, or we get both a RunTimeError by X failing and then later while handling that the OSError raised by our SIGCHLD handler when the child processes really dies during the sleep. I'll clone this bug and send one copy to the X maintainers, and leave the other one open to track the anaconda not falling back issue.
Thank you. I have been able to obtain some additional information that I hope may help. Anaconda also does not like my hard drive, I have two sata drives. ----------- I first ssh into the installed over my lan and stated anaconda manually. It went through the first few screens, but when asking where to install F12 it did not find my either of my hard drives and had to be manually killed (killed ssh session, no way to exit anaconda and the back button only took me back to choosing a time zone). ----------- Next I booted with the vnc option to anaconda and was able to vnc in. Anaconda ran fine over vnc, but when I connected I had this message : "The root for the previously installed system was not found" There is a small button on the bottom "exit installer" which then exits the vnc server and reboots. ------------- I was able to re-boot and I can mount my Fedora 11 root partition, sda3, with no problem mount /dev/sda3 /tmp/mnt there is a file /tmp/mnt/etc/redhat-issue with the correct in formation in it and the boot option "update any" did not work either. -------------- This is as far as I was able to get last night =)
Update : The good, the bad, and the ugly ... Since I had run preupgade just prior to the release of F12 , and since it was not working, I ran it again. This second time, F12 is not longer in pre-releasse, ie no longer "rawhide" so ... ------------- The good: Anaconda is working, in rawhide. When I reboot X runs just fine and my hard drive is recognized. This is good as I assume this bug is fixed somehow in rawhide ??? ------------- The bad - preupgrade did not perform any check on the repository and downloaded a mix of packages, from F12 and F13 (rawhide). The upgrade failed at about 75% I will file this as a bug against preupgrade =) ------------- The ugly : I post this just for laughs as I have not seen anything like it. The system actually boots, but as you can imagine does not run well. It is actually a mix of packages from 3 releases - F11 , F12 , and F13. I have seen a mix of two, never 3. ------------- Summary: 1. The above bugs exist in F12 - X fails in anaconda with my video card. This has been triaged: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538048 2. Anaconda fails in F12 with the above error messages. Anaconda does not recognize the existing F11 install nor my hard drive when run over SSH or VNC. 3. Both of these bugs appear fixed in rawhide. 4. I will file a separate bug report on preupgrade. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538480
Looks like I am also a victim to this bug. My card detail follows and I am using driver from nvidia.com, === 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G72M [Quadro NVS 110M/GeForce Go 7300] (rev a1) === Bodhi could you please confirm whether you were to complete upgrade using preupgrade-1.1.2-1.fc11.noarch and which nvidia driver you were using? Thanks
Bodhy can you please check 'comment 9'. Thanks (In reply to comment #6) > Ok, so we seem to have 2 issues here: > > 1) Xorg does not like your card > > 2) We fail to fall back to text mode, somehow we > get the OSError thrown by our custom sigchild handler > twice, or we get both a RunTimeError by X failing and > then later while handling that the OSError raised by > our SIGCHLD handler when the child processes really > dies during the sleep. > > I'll clone this bug and send one copy to the X maintainers, and leave > the other one open to track the anaconda not falling back issue.
The preupgrade version was : preupgrade.noarch 1.1.2-1.fc11 The nvidia version was: kmod-nvidia.x86_64 190.42-1.fc11.1 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
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