Another heads up for F17 upgrades from F16 (via yum)

[Bojan Smojver]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=821289

You may want to make sure you have people on hand that can "push the
button" for you when the kernel panics on the remote box.

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[Sérgio Basto]

On Seg, 2012-05-14 at 10:38 +1000, Bojan Smojver wrote: 
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=821289
>  
>  You may want to make sure you have people on hand that can "push the
>  button" for you when the kernel panics on the remote box. 

preupgrade works with vnc 


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[Richard Vickery]

How exactly is the Fedora-17-TC4-i386-DVD.iso file supposed to work?

Richard

[Richard Vickery]

thanks,

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Richard Vickery <
richard.vickeryrv(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  How exactly is the Fedora-17-TC4-i386-DVD.iso file supposed to work?
>
>  Richard
>

[Adam Williamson]

On Sun, 2012-05-13 at 21:01 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote:
>  thanks,
>  
>  On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Richard Vickery
>  <richard.vickeryrv(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>          How exactly is the Fedora-17-TC4-i386-DVD.iso file supposed to
>          work? 
Could you clarify your question and its relationship to this thread? Are
you having some specific problem with TC4, or are you asking for general
information as to how to use either ISO files in general or Fedora
installer images in particular? Thanks.
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[Richard Vickery]

Hi Adam,

TC4 won't install, and because of this, thinking that it was not supposed
to install, I was wondering what one was supposed to do with it. I realise
that my thought-process may have been wrong and it should have been
installable, but I thought I would come from that what happened was that
which was supposed to take place.

hope this helps,

Richard
On May 13, 2012 10:36 PM, "Adam Williamson" <awilliam(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

>  On Sun, 2012-05-13 at 21:01 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote:
>  > thanks,
>  >
>  > On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Richard Vickery
>  > <richard.vickeryrv(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  >         How exactly is the Fedora-17-TC4-i386-DVD.iso file supposed to
>  >         work?
>
>  Could you clarify your question and its relationship to this thread? Are
>  you having some specific problem with TC4, or are you asking for general
>  information as to how to use either ISO files in general or Fedora
>  installer images in particular? Thanks.
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[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 09:47 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote:
>  Hi Adam,
>  
>  TC4 won't install, and because of this, thinking that it was not
>  supposed to install, I was wondering what one was supposed to do with
>  it. I realise that my thought-process may have been wrong and it
>  should have been installable,  
Er. Not only 'should have been installable', but in most tests, it is.
If you have a problem installing it, please file a bug report with
appropriate details. Thanks.
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[Richard Vickery]

Thanks Adam,

The *iso may not have burned properly, now that I think of it with the info
you have supplied here. I shall attempt it again within the next 24 hours -
hopefully. I will let you know.

Richard

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com&gt;wrote:

>  On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 09:47 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote:
>  > Hi Adam,
>  >
>  > TC4 won't install, and because of this, thinking that it was not
>  > supposed to install, I was wondering what one was supposed to do with
>  > it. I realise that my thought-process may have been wrong and it
>  > should have been installable,
>
>  Er. Not only 'should have been installable', but in most tests, it is.
>  If you have a problem installing it, please file a bug report with
>  appropriate details. Thanks.
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[Richard Vickery]

What I get when I attempt to install TC4 is the following:

mount: unknown filesystem type 'DM_snapshot_cow'

dracut Warning: Can't mount root filesystem

Dropping to debug shell

dracut:/#

What can I do to mount the root fs? There is a better, longer question. The
partitions are:

(parted) print sda
Model: ATA FUJITSU MHZ2320B (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 320GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name  Flags
 1      1049kB  2097kB  1049kB
 2      2097kB  526MB   524MB   ext4         ext4  boot
 3      526MB   320GB   320GB

and gparted doesn't have a so-named "/root" nor a "/home"
filesystem, which
probably goes to why dracut can't find it.

Regards,

Richard

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Richard Vickery <
richard.vickeryrv(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  Thanks Adam,
>
>  The *iso may not have burned properly, now that I think of it with the
>  info you have supplied here. I shall attempt it again within the next 24
>  hours - hopefully. I will let you know.
>
>  Richard
>
>
>  On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com&gt;wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 09:47 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote:
> > > Hi Adam,
> > >
> > > TC4 won't install, and because of this, thinking that it was not
> > > supposed to install, I was wondering what one was supposed to do with
> > > it. I realise that my thought-process may have been wrong and it
> > > should have been installable,
> >
> > Er. Not only 'should have been installable', but in most tests, it is.
> > If you have a problem installing it, please file a bug report with
> > appropriate details. Thanks.
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>
>

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 08:09 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote:
>  What I get when I attempt to install TC4 is the following:
>  
>  
>  mount: unknown filesystem type 'DM_snapshot_cow'
>  
>  
>  dracut Warning: Can't mount root filesystem 
Sounds like a corrupt download or burn.
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[Richard Vickery]

Oh okay, I guess I'll try again.

Perhaps my initial question about whether it is supposed to install makes
more sense now?

Thanks for the help; I'll try to install in the next few hours. I'll try to
get TC5.

--
Richard

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com&gt;wrote:

>  On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 08:09 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote:
>  > What I get when I attempt to install TC4 is the following:
>  >
>  >
>  > mount: unknown filesystem type 'DM_snapshot_cow'
>  >
>  >
>  > dracut Warning: Can't mount root filesystem
>
>  Sounds like a corrupt download or burn.
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[Richard Vickery]

TC6 won't put a boot loader in after installation.

--
Richard

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Richard Vickery <
richard.vickeryrv(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  Oh okay, I guess I'll try again.
>
>  Perhaps my initial question about whether it is supposed to install makes
>  more sense now?
>
>  Thanks for the help; I'll try to install in the next few hours. I'll try
>  to get TC5.
>
>  --
>  Richard
>
>
>  On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com&gt;wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 08:09 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote:
> > > What I get when I attempt to install TC4 is the following:
> > >
> > >
> > > mount: unknown filesystem type 'DM_snapshot_cow'
> > >
> > >
> > > dracut Warning: Can't mount root filesystem
> >
> > Sounds like a corrupt download or burn.
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[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 20:16 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote:
>  TC6 won't put a boot loader in after installation. 
No, really, it does.

You can pretty much assume that anything really basic in a late TC /
early RC stage like we're at now actually works, unless you see
otherwise on the blocker list. If you're hitting something like this,
don't assume that somehow, in three days of intensive testing, no-one
else noticed that bootloader installation doesn't work. It's a safer
assumption that you hit a bug triggered by some specific aspect of your
configuration, and so provide some details on that configuration. And
logs. We like logs. Thanks!
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[Richard Vickery]

Thanks Adam,

First cpuinfo:

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 15
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     T5250  @ 1.50GHz
stepping : 13
microcode : 0xa4
cpu MHz : 1000.000
cache size : 2048 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36
clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe lm constant_tsc
arch_perfmon pebs bts aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3
cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm dts
bogomips : 2992.31
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 15
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     T5250  @ 1.50GHz
stepping : 13
microcode : 0xa4
cpu MHz : 1000.000
cache size : 2048 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 1
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 1
initial apicid : 1
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36
clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc
arch_perfmon pebs bts aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3
cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm dts
bogomips : 2992.31
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:


now meminfo, if needed,

$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:        1018424 kB
MemFree:           91608 kB
Buffers:            3216 kB
Cached:           222668 kB
SwapCached:        91916 kB
Active:           388004 kB
Inactive:         402224 kB
Active(anon):     343632 kB
Inactive(anon):   360344 kB
Active(file):      44372 kB
Inactive(file):    41880 kB
Unevictable:       41816 kB
Mlocked:              16 kB
HighTotal:        133712 kB
HighFree:           1732 kB
LowTotal:         884712 kB
LowFree:           89876 kB
SwapTotal:       2064380 kB
SwapFree:        1402152 kB
Dirty:                68 kB
Writeback:             0 kB
AnonPages:        554008 kB
Mapped:            55504 kB
Shmem:             97828 kB
Slab:              48744 kB
SReclaimable:      24116 kB
SUnreclaim:        24628 kB
KernelStack:        3248 kB
PageTables:        10092 kB
NFS_Unstable:          0 kB
Bounce:                0 kB
WritebackTmp:          0 kB
CommitLimit:     2573592 kB
Committed_AS:    3142052 kB
VmallocTotal:     122880 kB
VmallocUsed:       35656 kB
VmallocChunk:      81308 kB
HardwareCorrupted:     0 kB
AnonHugePages:     69632 kB
HugePages_Total:       0
HugePages_Free:        0
HugePages_Rsvd:        0
HugePages_Surp:        0
Hugepagesize:       4096 kB
DirectMap4k:       49144 kB
DirectMap4M:      856064 kB

Hope this helps.

Richard.


On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 1:47 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com&gt;wrote:

>  On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 20:16 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote:
>  > TC6 won't put a boot loader in after installation.
>
>  No, really, it does.
>
>  You can pretty much assume that anything really basic in a late TC /
>  early RC stage like we're at now actually works, unless you see
>  otherwise on the blocker list. If you're hitting something like this,
>  don't assume that somehow, in three days of intensive testing, no-one
>  else noticed that bootloader installation doesn't work. It's a safer
>  assumption that you hit a bug triggered by some specific aspect of your
>  configuration, and so provide some details on that configuration. And
>  logs. We like logs. Thanks!
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[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 12:12 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote:
>  Thanks Adam,
>  
>  
>  First cpuinfo: 
>  
>  now meminfo, if needed, 
I...no, that doesn't help. Why would it help?

Sorry for not giving more precise instructions. What we want are the
logs from anaconda. Specifically, program.log, but all of them may be
needed.

After installation has completed (even if bootloader installation
failed), you can find them in /var/log/anaconda on the installed system.
You can mount the installed partitions from a live image, perhaps, to
access this location. Then get the logs out and attach them. thanks.
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