When running preupgrade-cli on Fedora 12, trying to upgrade to Fedora 13, I get the "kickstart not found" error as in the cloned bug report below. There is a missing space before "stage2=" Version: preupgrade-1.1.7-1.fc12.noarch +++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #587627 +++ Created attachment 410391 [details] screenshot Description of problem: Followed https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-04-29_Preupgrade https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Preupgrade_low_/boot_disk_space_to_download When there is not space for install.img, preupgrade will offer to download it later, but it won't generate any kickstart file. See screenshot. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): preupgrade-1.1.5-1.fc12.noarch How reproducible: always --- Additional comment from jlaska on 2010-04-30 16:17:19 EDT --- Proposing as a F13Blocker. Since running low on /boot disk space is common, this issue came up multiple times during the test day. I'd like to propose moving the kickstart generation into it's own try/except block so that it can still be written to disk. --- Additional comment from jlaska on 2010-05-04 10:41:53 EDT --- Created attachment 411323 [details] preupgrade.patch - move kickstart generation before install.img download I'm testing the attached patch as we speak. This patch only fixes preupgrade, preupgrade-cli would need a similar change I gather. --- Additional comment from ericlake on 2010-05-06 18:23:26 EDT --- I worked with jlaska today on this issue and ran some tests on a fresh install of Fedora 12 x86. I did an install selecting all of the defaults except in the area of partitioning. I changed the /boot partition from the default 200mb to 1024mb. Once the system was fully updated to the latest F12 patch level I installed both http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/fedora/13/i386/preupgrade-1.1.6-0.10.fc13.noarch.rpm and http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/python-urlgrabber/3.9.1/4.1.fc12/noarch/python-urlgrabber-3.9.1-4.1.fc12.noarch.rpm After these two packages were updated I ran preupgrade as root. The process was very smooth after that. Following is the output that preupgrade generated: [root@oneil ~]# preupgrade Loaded plugins: blacklist, whiteout No plugin match for: rpm-warm-cache No plugin match for: remove-with-leaves No plugin match for: auto-update-debuginfo preupgrade-main (mirrorlist) url: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-13&arch=$basearch now: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-13&arch=i386 preupgrade (mirrorlist) url: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?path=pub/fedora/linux/development/13/$basearch/os now: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?path=pub/fedora/linux/development/13/i386/os unknown metadata being downloaded: repomdG9KuvBtmp.xml unknown metadata being downloaded: MEMORY Fetched treeinfo from http://mirrordenver.fdcservers.net/fedora/development/13/i386/os//.treeinfo treeinfo timestamp: Thu May 6 10:16:56 2010 unknown metadata being downloaded: MEMORY unknown metadata being downloaded: MEMORY Downloading 760.1MB Available disk space for /var/cache/yum/preupgrade: 61.5GB Upgrade requires 500.0MB Available disk space for /usr: 60.8GB Kernel requires 26.0MB Available disk space for /boot: 716.8MB unknown metadata being downloaded: repomdVrUGr2tmp.xml Generating metadata for preupgrade repo DEBUG /sbin/grubby --title="Upgrade to Fedora 13 (Branch)" --remove-kernel="/boot/upgrade/vmlinuz" --add-kernel="/boot/upgrade/vmlinuz" --initrd="/boot/upgrade/initrd.img" --args="preupgrade repo= hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade ks= hd:UUID=54bb5aef-5b7a-4af8-b4c2-581ac7bc85cb:/upgrade/ks.cfg stage2= hd:UUID=54bb5aef-5b7a-4af8-b4c2-581ac7bc85cb:/upgrade/install.img" jlaska asked what the grub.conf looked like once it was complete. Following is the /boot/grub/grub.conf that was generated: # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_oneil-LogVol00 # initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img #boot=/dev/sda default=1 timeout=0 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Upgrade to Fedora 13 (Branch) kernel /upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade repo= hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade ks= hd:UUID=54bb5aef-5b7a-4af8-b4c2-581ac7bc85cb:/upgrade/ks.cfg stage2= hd:UUID=54bb5aef-5b7a-4af8-b4c2-581ac7bc85cb:/upgrade/install.img initrd /upgrade/initrd.img title Fedora (2.6.32.11-99.fc12.i686.PAE) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32.11-99.fc12.i686.PAE ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_oneil-LogVol00 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet initrd /initramfs-2.6.32.11-99.fc12.i686.PAE.img title Fedora (2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.PAE) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.PAE ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_oneil-LogVol00 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet initrd /initramfs-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.PAE.img The thing that seemed odd to jlaska and I was the spaces in the kernel line. For instance repo= hd:: Following his advice I edited the grub.conf file to add title Upgrade to Fedora 13 (Branch) -- MODIFIED kernel /upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade ks=hd:UUID=54bb5aef-5b7a-4af8-b4c2-581ac7bc85cb:/upgrade/ks.cfg stage2=hd:UUID=54bb5aef-5b7a-4af8-b4c2-581ac7bc85cb:/upgrade/install.img initrd /upgrade/initrd.img after the first F13 kernel line. After this I rebooted the system and it booted to the F13 upgrade screens and it progressed as expected. --- Additional comment from kparal on 2010-05-07 03:14:19 EDT --- Ok, I updated to python-urlgrabber-3.9.1-4.1.fc12 and that solved that traceback. Kickstart is now generated when not enough space for install.img, good. But there are still some problems: 1. preupgrade does not require python-urlgrabber-3.9.1-4.1.fc12. It must require that, because you can't suppose the user has all packages fully updated. 2. Upgrade item in GRUB is not set as default. I have seen this for several times, it seems to appear randomly (after some preupgrade runs it is default, after some it isn't). 3. There are superfluous spaces in GRUB item, exactly as Eric Lake reported. That makes the whole process fail ("kickstart not found"). --- Additional comment from rhughes on 2010-05-12 11:00:17 EDT --- (In reply to comment #12) > 2. Upgrade item in GRUB is not set as default. I have seen this for several > times, it seems to appear randomly (after some preupgrade runs it is default, > after some it isn't). > 3. There are superfluous spaces in GRUB item, exactly as Eric Lake reported. > That makes the whole process fail ("kickstart not found"). Different bug reports please, please don't piggy back new things onto this ticket. Thanks. --- Additional comment from rharrison on 2010-05-20 17:10:38 EDT --- (In reply to comment #12) > 3. There are superfluous spaces in GRUB item, exactly as Eric Lake reported. > That makes the whole process fail ("kickstart not found"). I also ran into this issue with preupgrade-1.1.6-1.fc12. Removing the spaces in /etc/grup.conf by hand seems to have allowed the upgrade to proceed. --- Additional comment from gronslet on 2010-07-20 06:54:30 EDT --- I just want to add that I just had problems upgrading from F12 to F13 because of a *missing* space in grub.conf. I have a small /boot, and thus a http link was inserted as the stage2 parameter, but there was no space in front of the "stage2=..." keyword. Therefore, I got a message that the kickstart file could not be found. Adding a space before stage2 in grub.conf solved the problem. (The system is upgrading now, so I cannot report the version etc, sorry) --- Additional comment from gronslet on 2010-07-20 08:58:58 EDT --- It was preupgrade-1.1.7-1.fc12.noarch.
The original build of 1.1.8 failed, so I've fixed it and here it is - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/preupgrade-1.1.8-1.fc12.1 I've just successfully done an upgrade of F-12 to F-14, so please test and give it karma.
(In reply to comment #1) > The original build of 1.1.8 failed, so I've fixed it and here it is - > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/preupgrade-1.1.8-1.fc12.1 > > I've just successfully done an upgrade of F-12 to F-14, so please test and give > it karma. Tested and supplied positive karma to the proposed bodhi update. The update resolves the reported problem. Thanks! This update needs more positive karma to be pushed to F-12 stable. Can anyone running F-12 test the proposed update (see https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/preupgrade-1.1.8-1.fc12.1). NOTE: preupgrade-1.1.8-1.fc12.1 was not yet available in 'updates-testing' at the time I tested. I needed to manually download the package and install on my system.
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https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/preupgrade-1.1.8-1.fc12.1 has been pushed to stable ... I'm closing this out