Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 825235
Preupgrade to Fedora 17 issues
Last modified: 2013-07-31 20:40:58 EDT
Description of problem: Multiple problems have been identiefied in a preupgrade procedure of Fedora 16 to Fedora 17. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): preupgrade-1.1.10-2.fc17 How reproducible: Upgrade a Fedora 16 system to Fedora 17 using preupgrade procedure. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install and run preupgrade on your Fedora 16 system 2. Boot the upgrade procedure after finished. 3. Actual results: The new system boots the old kernel and after completing the boot process is unusable. There is no way to log in. Pressing alt-F2 switches to a blank VT screen with no login prompt though. Expected results: The upgraded system should have succeeded in logging in the user at least in text mode. Additional info: The kernel is not updated and there is no kernel-PAE version available in the repositories. Grub is not updated either. The previous grub 1.99 screen was displayed and not the new 2.0 screen. The system can only be accessed by booting in single user mode. A kernel panic when rebooting/shutting down the system is also produced like the one described in Bug 825092.
I think this is duplicate of Bug 820351 as well.
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Fedora 17 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2013-07-30. Fedora 17 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.