libreport version: 2.0.6 executable: /usr/bin/python hashmarkername: anaconda kernel: 3.1.0-7.fc16.i686 product: Fedora reason: LVMError: lvdeactivate failed for f11usr: LV vg_f11/f11usr in use: not deactivating time: Sat Jun 23 01:46:26 2012 version: 16 anaconda-tb-66oisj: Binary file, 874732 bytes description: :The following was filed automatically by anaconda: :anaconda 16.25 exception report :Traceback (most recent call first): : File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/storage/devicelibs/lvm.py", line 400, in lvdeactivate : raise LVMError("lvdeactivate failed for %s: %s" % (lv_name, msg)) : File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/storage/devices.py", line 2595, in _teardown : lvm.lvdeactivate(self.vg.name, self._name) : File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/storage/devices.py", line 761, in teardown : self._teardown(recursive=recursive) : File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/storage/__init__.py", line 1534, in findExistingRootDevices : device.teardown() : File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/upgrade.py", line 81, in findRootParts : upgradeany=flags.cmdline.has_key("upgradeany")) : File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/dispatch.py", line 373, in dispatch : self.dir = self.steps[self.step].target(self.anaconda) : File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/dispatch.py", line 241, in go_forward : self.dispatch() : File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/gui.py", line 1201, in nextClicked : self.anaconda.dispatch.go_forward() :LVMError: lvdeactivate failed for f11usr: LV vg_f11/f11usr in use: not deactivating :
Created attachment 593843 [details] File: anaconda-tb-66oisj
Comment on attachment 593843 [details] File: anaconda-tb-66oisj This bug will probably be marked a duplicate of the bugs of not being able to update a Fedora install that uses separate / and /usr partitions with LVM and/or RAID. History: I tried "preupgrade-cli 'Fedora 16 (Verne)'", wasted a whole day's worth of bandwidth downloading 3.7G of updates. Rebooted (and booted to Debian so that Debian, which controls Grub2 on this box, could update the file menu). When the pre-upgrade booted, it declared that it could not find the previous system or the downloaded updates. After trying a number of things with preupgrade, I burned a CD of the netinstall, which has worked quite well for me in the past. The netinstall CD tells me the same thing about not being able to find the previous system. So, I looked up the lvm tools and got some reminders from the user list and tried, first, just switching to the virtual console at the screen where the system is examining the storage devices, and activating the LVM volumes. No joy. Then I tried booting to the rescue system, activating the LVM volumes there, and running anaconda: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/anaconda --graphical --selinux --lang ja_JP.UTF-8 --keymap jp106 Still tells me it can't find the old system and only offers to install new. Then I tried mounting the LVM partitions under /mnt/sysimage/ , including the old /usr , /var , and all. That was what got this exception. Ergo, it died trying to de-activate the LVM partitions. Ergo, the cursed installer was de-activating the LVM partitions before looking for the old system, QED, could not find the old system to upgrade or all the fine packages I had wasted so much bandwidth downloading. So, this bug should be called, "Installer can't find the old system to upgrade because it kicks it out the window before it starts looking." I'll attach a copy of my dmesg shortly, and then I've had enough. If I have to install from scratch, well, I've been needing an excuse to pick Debian up and use it for a while, not to mention openBSD. Fedora is obviously under the control of enemies to the open source movement now.
The note in the wiki about RAID being problematic should be fixed to say that there are problems with RAID, LVM, and file systems that separate /usr into a separate partition from / , with links to the stupid arguments about how much better everything will work if the binaries are all one big happy family. (Seriously, who let those renegades from Microsoft into positions where they could do this to the live Fedora main branch code instead of forking the thing and proving the value of their ideas in a private branch?)
Oh, one more note: In the transition from the character mode screens getting the language and keyboard settings to the graphical mode, I think it's where the install system is going to multiuser mode, I get two error messages: systemd[1]: Failed to fully start up daemon: No such file or directory And udevd had a similar-looking problem with filecon that my fingers weren't fast enough to record. And the error message when the efforts to upgrade failed to find the packages looked like error: cannot open Packages database in /mnt/sysimage/var/lib/rpm in several versions as it tried to look in various places in various formats.
Okay, I couldn't resist taking one last look at preupgrade-cli. First, switching to a virtual console to look at the logical volumes' state, the installer seems to be cycling through, activating and de-activating them as it searches. Second, when preupgrade fails, it tells me (in Japanese) Upgrade root not found. No root from a previous install can be found. Which is really odd, because the root partition is on a primary partition. Which makes it appear that the real blocking artifact is the blasted merge of /usr into / . Which means that this bug is destined for the "Won't fix." wastebin. So, if I were to be seriously inclined to upgrade instead of do a new install, I'd have to move all the LVM stuff out of the second base partition and glom that base partition to the first one using gparted, to get a partition big enough to hold my /usr and the root partition. Also means that all those not-so-old Dells at the school where I work, which I have been recommending to switch to Fedora when it's time to clean off MSW7, well, I can't recommend them any more because, even though there's enough CPU and RAM, the hard disk is too small. The author of this plan sure seems determined to make Fedora irrelevant to anyone but hard core users.
Created attachment 593867 [details] dmesg of the running system where this happens
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