Bug 872042 - Upgrades on i386 produce a non-bootable system
Summary: Upgrades on i386 produce a non-bootable system
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: fedup
Version: 17
Hardware: i386
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Will Woods
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-11-01 04:55 UTC by Tim Flink
Modified: 2012-11-01 05:58 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2012-11-01 05:58:12 UTC
Type: Bug
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
upgrade output extracted from non-booting system (109.87 KB, text/plain)
2012-11-01 04:55 UTC, Tim Flink
no flags Details
serial console output on boot after upgrade (28.86 KB, text/plain)
2012-11-01 04:56 UTC, Tim Flink
no flags Details
dmesg output from dracut shell after failed reboot (179.14 KB, text/plain)
2012-11-01 04:56 UTC, Tim Flink
no flags Details
debug information requested for dracut issues (3.53 KB, text/plain)
2012-11-01 04:57 UTC, Tim Flink
no flags Details

Description Tim Flink 2012-11-01 04:55:12 UTC
Description of problem:
When I upgrade an updated (using updates, not updates-testing) F17 install in an i386 VM, the fedup process appears to complete but the resultant system is not able to boot (gets to the mount phase of dracut).

There are a lot of ignored transaction errors in upgrade.out but I'm not sure if those are related

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
fedup-dracut (888d05d5393c38538b3d41cb5b36b62d9e315bd2 from github)
fedup (1b6992b85ebb1fe7bb1b00659b24d9f3ad2173eb from github)

How reproducible:
I've been able to reproduce this 3 times in a row on a VM, resetting the VM every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. upgrade using latest fedup from git, built for i386
2. reboot after upgrade is complete
3.
  
Actual results:
System does not boot, fails pre-pivot

Expected results:
System boots into a working F18 installation

Additional info:

Comment 1 Tim Flink 2012-11-01 04:55:53 UTC
Created attachment 636458 [details]
upgrade output extracted from non-booting system

Comment 2 Tim Flink 2012-11-01 04:56:24 UTC
Created attachment 636459 [details]
serial console output on boot after upgrade

Comment 3 Tim Flink 2012-11-01 04:56:51 UTC
Created attachment 636461 [details]
dmesg output from dracut shell after failed reboot

Comment 4 Tim Flink 2012-11-01 04:57:19 UTC
Created attachment 636462 [details]
debug information requested for dracut issues

Comment 5 Tim Flink 2012-11-01 05:58:12 UTC
Chalk this one up to user error. I figured out that I was pointing the i386 fedup-cli at an x86_64 repo mirror. The upgrade process completed but the resultant system didn't boot - couldn't imagine why.

When I do an i386 upgrade using an _i386_ F18 mirror, the upgrade works.


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