Description of problem: On my system (fully up-to-date F16, from fresh F16 install), - /etc/grub.conf exists, symlink to /boot/grub/grub.conf - /boot/grub/menu.lst exists, symlink to /boot/grub.conf - /boot/grub/grub.cfg _does not exist_ - /boot is small (so will download stage2 from initrd) running preupgrade (or preupgrade-cli), grubby fails to update grub.cfg. preupgrade _continues_ without halting at the failure or reporting it. Testing the cmdline printedout from preupgrade-cli, we see a segfault: /sbin/grubby --title="Upgrade to Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle)" --remove-kernel="/boot/upgrade/vmlinuz" --add-kernel="/boot/upgrade/vmlinuz" --initrd="/boot/upgrade/initrd.img" --args="preupgrade repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade ks=hd:UUID=dd231546-7cc4-4a2b-b6f9-5875d823c41d:/upgrade/ks.cfg stage2=http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/17/Fedora/x86_64/os/LiveOS/squashfs.img" grubby recieved SIGSEGV! Backtrace (6): /sbin/grubby[0x404fef] /lib64/libc.so.6[0x3d36436300] /sbin/grubby[0x4020d7] /sbin/grubby[0x403c1c] /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xed)[0x3d3642169d] /sbin/grubby[0x4042b1] Two bugs are present here - preupgrade is not checking grubby exit status - grubby is segfaulting on a hopefully simple operation HW is a plain Lenovo X220, SATA disks, simple partitioning scheme. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): preupgrade-1.1.10-1.fc16.src.rpm grubby-8.8-2.fc16.src.rpm How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install F16, update 2. run preupgrade-cli
Fyi, I see a closely related problem, also on F16 trying to upgrade to F17. Two variants: (1) By default, when running preupgrade I get this messsage in the console: error opening /boot/grub/grub.cfg for read: No such file or directory preupgrade doesn't care and suggests I reboot, which unsurprisingly does nothing and boots me right back into F16. The error message is correct, there's no grub.cfg, it's grub.conf. However, grubby does *not* crash. (2) I tried linking (as well as symlinking) grub.conf to crub.cfg. When I do this, I reliably trigger the grubby crash Martin has posted. I'll fall back to DVDs for upgrading, given the yum headaches this time 'round. Too bad. :(
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