Bug 590346 - Preupgrade requires /boot larger than 200MB to upgrade
Summary: Preupgrade requires /boot larger than 200MB to upgrade
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: preupgrade
Version: 12
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Richard Hughes
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-05-09 00:07 UTC by Scott Williams
Modified: 2010-11-03 15:43 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-11-03 15:43:54 UTC
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Description Scott Williams 2010-05-09 00:07:12 UTC
Description of problem:

I have tested this on two machines, one x86_64 and the other i686.  With the new python-urlgrabber, the prompt allows the user to continue and download the images during upgrade.

The problem is:  With a 200MB /boot, and only one kernel installed there is still not enough room for the install images and a wire connection is required for a user to upgrade with preupgrade.

This contradicts Expected Result #3 of https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Preupgrade

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

preupgrade-1.1.5-1

How reproducible:

Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Ensure there are only 1 kernel installed on the system and /boot is 200MB (the installation default size).
2. Make sure system is up to date.
3. Run preupgrade.
4. On the Choose desired release screen, enable unstable test releases.
5. Choose Fedora 13 (Branched) from the list of available upgrade targets, then click Apply. 
  
Actual results:

User is notified that there is not enough disk space in /boot and user must have a wire connection to download the images during the anaconda upgrade process.

Expected results:

The user is not prompted about low disk space when using preupgrade with the default partition size for /boot.

Additional info:

Since LVM is also a default, having users resize /boot may not be so straightforward.  Would it be possible to store the boot images in the root partition if /boot is not big enough?

Comment 1 Scott Williams 2010-05-09 00:27:33 UTC
Also, I tried this with setting installurl= to make sure it's grabbing the RC2 Final images, and this is a problem as of Final RC2.

Comment 3 Scott Williams 2010-10-23 21:58:59 UTC
If there is another bug before this one that addresses it, please mark this as a duplicate.  I did not see one before posting.

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2010-11-03 15:17:26 UTC
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Comment 5 Kamil Páral 2010-11-03 15:43:54 UTC
This has been fixed with preupgrade-1.1.8-1.fc12.1.


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