Description of problem: using preupgrade to upgrade from f16 to f17. During the clean-up stage towards the end, gridengine's uninstall failed. This causes preupgrade to abort, and system does not finishe upgrade - leaving behind the grub2 'upgrade' items, does not put new kernel in the grub2 menu (although new kernel is apparently installed). All in all, it is a mess in the rpm database, and the grub2 menu. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): The two versions left behind, according to rpm -q gridengine, gridengine-6.2u5p2-7.fc16.3 gridengine-2011.11-3.svn131.fc17 How reproducible: Once (obvious this is unpleasant enough I don't want to see again...) Steps to Reproduce: 1. install older gridengine 2. try to upgrade to new with yum 3. Actual results: yum aborted. Expected results: yum continues, and preupgrade continues to do the clean-up and also tidy up the boot menu, put the new kernel into the boot menu, etc. Additional info:
Are there any logs that recorded what the error was? Are there any other gridengine rpms installed (-execd, -qmon, etc)?
Unfortunately preupgrade does not keep much record around; but I keep a list of packages before and after upgrade (rpm -qa). $ grep gridengine beforelist gridengine-devel-6.2u5p2-7.fc16.3.x86_64 gridengine-6.2u5p2-7.fc16.3.x86_64 gridengine-qmon-6.2u5p2-7.fc16.3.x86_64 gridengine-qmaster-6.2u5p2-7.fc16.3.x86_64 gridengine-execd-6.2u5p2-7.fc16.3.x86_64 $ grep gridengine afterlist gridengine-6.2u5p2-7.fc16.3.x86_64 gridengine-devel-2011.11-3.svn131.fc17.x86_64 gridengine-2011.11-3.svn131.fc17.x86_64 gridengine-qmaster-2011.11-3.svn131.fc17.x86_64 gridengine-qmon-2011.11-3.svn131.fc17.x86_64 gridengine-execd-2011.11-3.svn131.fc17.x86_64 Seems that only the main package failed to clean up (and caused the rest of preupgrade to be unfinished).
Can you attach /root/upgrade.log?
(In reply to comment #3) > Can you attach /root/upgrade.log? Argh, you got it... The last two lines of that is: /usr/bin/qsub-ge has not been configured as an alternative for qsub error: %preun(gridengine-6.2u5p2-7.fc16.3.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 2 # ls -l /etc/alternatives/qsub lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 20 May 24 19:32 /etc/alternatives/qsub -> /usr/bin/qsub-torque # ls -l /usr/bin/qsub* lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 22 May 24 19:32 /usr/bin/qsub -> /etc/alternatives/qsub -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 1701448 Apr 17 18:36 /usr/bin/qsub-ge -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 54352 Feb 5 13:31 /usr/bin/qsub-torque I have torque also. (for development purposes...)
Can you please attach the entire upgrade.log to this report? Thanks. I'm starting to think that the whole alternatives system may not have been taken into consideration with the usrmove feature. We'll see.
Well, usrmove has nothing to do with it I think.
Any chance you have a backup of /var/lib/alternatives from before the upgrade?
(In reply to comment #7) > Any chance you have a backup of /var/lib/alternatives from before the > upgrade? What you saw in comment 4 was essentially before the upgrade (I only started it late 29th May). # ls -l /var/lib/alternatives/q* -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 858 May 24 19:32 /var/lib/alternatives/qsub Its content only talks about torque. # rpm -q --scripts gridengine ... preuninstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh): alternatives --remove qsub /usr/bin/qsub-ge ... I assume this is where it failed - the packager did not think of somebody installing two grid-computing packages simultaneously... it probably should do alternatives --remove qsub /usr/bin/qsub-ge || /bin/true instead, or something?
gridengine-6.2u5-10.fc15.5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gridengine-6.2u5-10.fc15.5
gridengine-6.2u5p2-7.fc16.4 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gridengine-6.2u5p2-7.fc16.4
Package gridengine-6.2u5-10.fc15.5: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 15 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing gridengine-6.2u5-10.fc15.5' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-8688/gridengine-6.2u5-10.fc15.5 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
gridengine-6.2u5-10.fc15.5 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
gridengine-6.2u5p2-7.fc16.4 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.