yum upgrade F16 => F17 no longer possible

[Peter Robinson]

On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Sven Lankes <sven at lank.es> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I just tried updating an up-to-date F16 install to F17 according to
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum#Fedora_16_-.3E_Fedora_17
>
> # yum --releasever=17 update dracut
>
> tries to update filesystem to 3-2.fc17 which contains the safeguard
> against running on a non-USRMOVE converted system. So I'm out of luck.
>
> Error:
>
> # ERROR You need to update rpm to handle:
> # rpmlib(X-CheckUnifiedSystemdir) is needed by filesystem-3-2.fc17.x86_64
> # RPM needs to be updated
>
> (Which is actually wrong - RPM is updated - it's just that I wasn't able
> to do the dracut usrmove step yet ...).
>
> Is this a bug worth filing or am I missing something?

Your missing the convertfs section which involves the steps dealing
with grub configs and rebooting.

Peter