Bug 651278 - Preupgrade poorly handles network outage during packages download
Summary: Preupgrade poorly handles network outage during packages download
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: preupgrade
Version: 17
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Richard Hughes
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-11-09 06:36 UTC by Panos Kavalagios
Modified: 2013-07-04 08:48 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-07-04 08:48:20 UTC
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Description Panos Kavalagios 2010-11-09 06:36:27 UTC
Description of problem: If you run preupgrade on a system that faces connection problems, you will end up prompting for rebooting your system to upgrade only a few of your packages.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): preupgrade-1.1.8-1.fc13.noarch


How reproducible: Run preupgrade and when packages are being downloaded, simulate a disconnection


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run preupgrade
2. When packages are being downloaded remove the ethernet kernel module
3.
  
Actual results: The procedure prompts for reboot, even though not all packages have been downloaded


Expected results: The installer should have detected the network outage and try again when the network is back


Additional info: My PC is facing ethernet problems (bug 592398 and bug 574455). I've run preupgrade and the problem on the ethernet module sky2 reappeared, but preupgrade prompted to reboot the system for system upgrade although:

# find /var/cache/yum/preupgrade* -iname \*.rpm | wc -l
72
# rpm -qa | wc -l
1481

Only 72 packages out of 1481 currently in the system were downloaded. It has done the same when I tried to upgrade from f12 to f13. It updated only fewer than 100 packages and I've upgraded by using DVD installation media.

Comment 1 Panos Kavalagios 2011-01-11 09:33:38 UTC
This issue looks like a duplicate of bug 650854 or vice versa. If a solution is given in the context of either that bug or the present bug, it should cover both cases.

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Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2011-06-28 10:43:30 UTC
Fedora 13 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2011-06-25. Fedora 13 is 
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Comment 4 Panos Kavalagios 2011-06-28 11:05:28 UTC
The bug is out there.

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bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time
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Comment 7 Panos Kavalagios 2013-07-04 08:04:33 UTC
Long live preupgrade :)

Comment 8 Adam Pribyl 2013-07-04 08:48:20 UTC
Preupgrade is dead...


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