Bug 977048 - fedup fails due to insufficient space on /boot partition (F18->F19), with no indication of the reason
Summary: fedup fails due to insufficient space on /boot partition (F18->F19), with no ...
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: fedup
Version: 19
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Will Woods
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-06-22 22:16 UTC by igor.redhat@gmail.com
Modified: 2015-02-17 15:39 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2015-02-17 15:39:45 UTC
Type: Bug
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upgrade.log (102.15 KB, text/x-log)
2013-06-22 22:16 UTC, igor.redhat@gmail.com
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Description igor.redhat@gmail.com 2013-06-22 22:16:52 UTC
Created attachment 764196 [details]
upgrade.log

Description of problem:

When trying to upgrade from F18 to F19, the first stage of fedup (package download) completed normally without any warnings; upon reboot, there was  a new fedup entry in the grub menu. Upon selecting it, the system booted, did some processing for about 5-10 minutes and then rebooted again (without any messages at all if I recall correctly). Upon this second reboot, the fedup entry was gone from the grub menu and the system was left at F18; all downloaded packages were removed. Looking at upgrade.log showed that the upgrade failed due to insufficient space on /boot partition:

Jun 21 20:15:39 igor-hp upgrade[616]: ERROR: upgrade failed due to the following problems:
Jun 21 20:15:40 igor-hp upgrade[616]: installing package syslinux-extlinux-4.05-5.fc19.x86_64 needs 2MB on the /boot filesystem
Jun 21 20:15:40 igor-hp upgrade[616]: installing package fedora-logos-19.0.4-1.fc19.noarch needs 9MB on the /boot filesystem
Jun 21 20:15:40 igor-hp upgrade[616]: installing package grub2-tools-1:2.00-20.fc19.x86_64 needs 12KB on the /boot filesystem

How reproducible:

I've only tried it once but I expect it to be very reproducible.

Actual results:

The system is left at F18 without any indication of the reason or even of the fact that the upgrade failed; downloaded packages are removed - I had to re-run the first stage of fedup after freeing up some space on /boot.

Expected results:

a) It'd be nice to get some warning/message about insufficient space on the /boot partition, ideally even before the reboot but even something during the attempted install would be better than having to look at the log files.

b) It'd be really nice if the downloaded packages and the fedup grub entry were left as is if the installation could not proceed so that one had a chance to fix the problem (i.e., insufficient disk space in this case) and retry the installation without having to re-run the first stage of fedup and redownload all the packages.

Comment 1 Dams 2013-07-04 07:32:42 UTC
Very reproducible, indeed. The fun part is that fedup thought there was enough space during the test transaction. But in the end the upgrade process log says "sorry you actually need 20MB more, my bad.".

Comment 2 markusN 2013-08-01 07:35:01 UTC
See also #891943

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