Bug 608193 - preupgrade and /boot on raid level 1 device
Summary: preupgrade and /boot on raid level 1 device
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 500004
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: preupgrade
Version: 15
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Richard Hughes
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-06-26 00:19 UTC by Robin Rainton
Modified: 2014-01-21 23:15 UTC (History)
23 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of: 504826
Environment:
Last Closed: 2011-11-11 15:01:36 UTC
Type: ---
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Description Robin Rainton 2010-06-26 00:19:55 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #504826 +++

Preupgrade complains:

Error: /boot is on RAID device md0

On this system, md0 is simply level 1 (mirror) though so the complaint is invalid.

Sure, if the RAID level was 0 or 5 or 6, etc. then fair enough, but in level 1 any of the mirrored partitions can simply be read on it's own without any knowledge of RAID. This is clearly the case, or GRUB would never be able to boot this system in the first place.

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2010-11-03 12:50:56 UTC
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Comment 2 Mike McGrath 2010-11-03 13:14:02 UTC
This is still an issue, not sure why it's in [NEEDINFO] mode.  I believe the authors are aware of the issue.  Maybe that was an accident.

Comment 3 gregor 2010-11-13 21:53:38 UTC
hi i have the same problem on an maschine with f13 that i would to preupgrade to f14.

what infos are needed?

Comment 4 Ray Todd Stevens 2010-11-22 19:43:19 UTC
I think this is basically the same bug as 500004

Comment 5 Rob Riggs 2011-04-14 23:32:06 UTC
For me this looks more like Bug 504826

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 800, in <module>
    widgets = PreUpgradeGtk()
  File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 396, in __init__
    self._do_main()
  File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 278, in _do_main
    self.main_preupgrade()
  File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 497, in main_preupgrade
    extra_args += " ks=%s" % self.pu.generate_kickstart()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/preupgrade/__init__.py", line 601, in generate_kickstart
    return dev.bootpath_to_anacondapath(targetfile, UUID=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/preupgrade/dev.py", line 91, in bootpath_to_anacondapath
    raise PUError, "/boot is on RAID device %s" % bootdev
preupgrade.error.PUError: /boot is on RAID device md0

Comment 6 David Stockwell 2011-04-30 18:59:51 UTC
This does match Bug 504826, has been here a long, long time.  However, as Robin Rainton states above, a RAID-1 disk can be read off either disk partition of the pair.

So, if you cannot fix it in Anaconda, perhaps a bit more guidance would be in order?

I could copy the contents to another directory (/saveboot)...just in case.  I would then unmount and tear down the RAID array, re-mount one partition of the  pair as /boot, and restart preupgrade, but this seems a bit excessive.

Comment 7 Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak 2011-11-04 09:05:32 UTC
I have the same problem upgrading F13 to F15. Since it is not clear why this bug has NEEDINFO at all (see comment #2), I am clearing NEEDINFO. Maintainers, ask for details explicitly if needed.

Comment 8 Wolfgang Denk 2011-11-10 12:07:08 UTC
The problem is still present when trying to update from F15 to F16:

# preupgrade-cli "Fedora 16 (Verne)"
Loaded plugins: blacklist, fastestmirror, langpacks, whiteout
No plugin match for: rpm-warm-cache
No plugin match for: remove-with-leaves
No plugin match for: auto-update-debuginfo
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
preupgrade-main (mirrorlist) 
  url: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-16&arch=$basearch
  now: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-16&arch=x86_64
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * fedora: fedora.inode.at
 * updates: ftp.uni-erlangen.de
preupgrade (mirrorlist) 
  url: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?path=pub/fedora/linux/releases/16/Fedora/$basearch/os/
  now: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?path=pub/fedora/linux/releases/16/Fedora/x86_64/os/
Checking for new repos for mirrors
 * preupgrade-main: fedora.inode.at
preupgrade-adobe-linux-i386 (baseurl) 
  url: http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/
  now: http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/
Checking for new repos for mirrors
preupgrade-fedora (mirrorlist) 
  url: https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-16&arch=x86_64
  now: https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-16&arch=x86_64
Checking for new repos for mirrors
preupgrade-updates (mirrorlist) 
  url: https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-f16&arch=x86_64
  now: https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-f16&arch=x86_64
Checking for new repos for mirrors
 * preupgrade-fedora: fedora.inode.at
Fetched treeinfo from http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/fedora/linux/releases/16/Fedora/x86_64/os//.treeinfo
treeinfo timestamp: Thu Nov  3 04:10:12 2011
MEMORY                                                                                                                                                                                     |  883 B     00:00     
/boot/upgrade/vmlinuz checksum OK
/boot/upgrade/initrd.img checksum OK
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-cli.py", line 330, in <module>
    pu.main(release)
  File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-cli.py", line 220, in main
    extra_args += " ks=%s" % self.generate_kickstart(extra_cmds=self.kickstart_cmds)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/preupgrade/__init__.py", line 607, in generate_kickstart
    return dev.bootpath_to_anacondapath(targetfile, UUID=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/preupgrade/dev.py", line 91, in bootpath_to_anacondapath
    raise PUError, "/boot is on RAID device %s" % bootdev
preupgrade.error.PUError: /boot is on RAID device md0

Comment 9 Will Woods 2011-11-11 15:01:36 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 500004 ***


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