Description of problem: I run preupgrade-cli on Fedora 12 to Fedora 14. After I make enough disk space, preupgrade-cli downloads vmlinuz, initrd.img and install.img. It downloads the remaining rpm's and I reboot. The process starts after I enter my encrypted filesystem password. HOWEVER, it fails claiming that I have not got enough disk space. HERE ARE THREE PROBLEMS: 1. If I CTRL-ALT-F2 to a shell prompt and MAKE enough disk space, I cannot continue the installation. 2. If I reboot now, I get a black screen and am not prompted for my LUKS password. 3. I have to re-run preupgrade-cli and it DOWNLOADS vmlinuz, initrd.img and install.img AGAIN - EVERY TIME IT FAILS. I already HAVE these files. Surely preupgrade doesn't have to get these every time? It's over 200 MB of download - and I have a 384 k ADSL line. It takes 2 HOURS. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): preupgrade-cli updating from Fedora 12 to Fedora 14. How reproducible: Every single time! Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run pre-upgrade, have enough disk space to download, then reboot. 2. Start the process, but receive an error that it fails because of disk space. 3. Switch consoles, and delete files from /root, for example. 4. Unable to continue the install. Force a reboot. 5. Choose to Upgrade from the Grub menu. You get to a black screen. The notebook hangs so I power off. 6. Reboot to the old OS. Re-run preupgrade-cli. vmlinuz, initrd.img and install.img download AGAIN. Actual results: Expected results: 1. Preupgrade should tell you the required disk space needed BEFORE you reboot to start the install!! 2. Should the install fail because of disk space, there should be a button to allow the installation to continue once disk space has been made available. 3. If preupgrade-cli is run again, don't download vmlinuz, initrd.img and install.img again. Perhaps fetch an MD5SUM file and verify the existing file is the same, and only download if this test fails. Additional info:
Same as bug 511878 - please mark as dup.
I disagree. Firstly, I have raised WAY more than bug 511878 and secondly, nobody is looking at bug 511878. It has been around for a year and a half. I made these points: - Preupgrade should tell you the required disk space needed BEFORE you reboot to start the install. (This is the part that makes this sound as a duplicate.) - Should the install fail because of disk space, there should be a button to allow the installation to continue once disk space has been made available. (Instead, at present, even if you make space available in the command line shell when you get the space error message, there is NO way to continue.) - If preupgrade-cli is run again, don't download vmlinuz, initrd.img and install.img again. Perhaps fetch an MD5SUM file and verify the existing file is the same, and only download if this test fails. (This is the most frustrating part of the failure message. It took HOURS to get the upgrade to run, just because every time I had an error - e.g. I was 20 meg short once!!!! - then pre-upgrade takes HOURS to download all the data AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN each time.) 511878 only refers to point 1. I am making serious suggestions that are minor to implement: - allow the installation to continue if you make space available - on re-running pre-upgrade, just check that you have the boot files first using MD5SUM *BEFORE* downloading everything again.
(In reply to comment #2) > 511878 only refers to point 1. One issue per one bug report.
(In reply to comment #3) > (In reply to comment #2) > > 511878 only refers to point 1. > > One issue per one bug report. So how do I proceed? I want the authors to make preupgrade work. I don't want to have to download for hours after it fails because of an apparent lack of disk space. Thanks.
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