Bug 755124 - Unstable/missing functionality in preupgrade
Summary: Unstable/missing functionality in preupgrade
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: preupgrade
Version: 16
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
urgent
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Assignee: Richard Hughes
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-11-18 22:16 UTC by Philip Prindeville
Modified: 2013-02-13 14:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-02-13 14:37:03 UTC
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Description Philip Prindeville 2011-11-18 22:16:11 UTC
Description of problem:

I tried to upgrade two f15 x86_64 machines to f16 via preupgrade yesterday, and had to resort to Yum instead after 7 hours of trying. My observations are:

* preupgrade should generate a ks.cfg that reflects the presence of "console=ttyS*" in your cmdline... so a "text" should also be present in the ks.cfg, as well as the Anaconda magic to cause console redirection to happen.

* having initrd run in "quiet" mode is pointless. an upgrade is done once only (hopefully!), and the value of getting useful information to troubleshoot a hang (as I saw) outweighs the aesthetic ugliness of a bunch of kernel boot-spew.

* also, some scripts to manually tweak the initrd.img (via dracut or whatever) would be handy for common tasks (such as verbosity, additional drivers, etc).


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

preupgrade-1.1.10-1

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Comment 1 Philip Prindeville 2012-09-26 23:21:58 UTC
Hello?

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Comment 3 Fedora End Of Life 2013-02-13 14:37:05 UTC
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