preupgrade from F7 to F8 freeze at "running /sbin/loader"

[Kazutoshi Morioka]

Hi, all.

I tried to upgrade from F7 to F8 with preupgrade-0.9.2-1.fc7.i386.
The packages were downloaded, grub.conf was edited.
But after I reboot and choose "Upgrade to Fedora 8 (Werewolf)", it was frozen
at a message "running /sbin/loader".
How can I collect debug-infos?

[Will Woods]

On May 1, 2008, at 9:06 AM, Kazutoshi Morioka wrote:

>  Hi, all.
>
>  I tried to upgrade from F7 to F8 with preupgrade-0.9.2-1.fc7.i386.
>  The packages were downloaded, grub.conf was edited.
>  But after I reboot and choose "Upgrade to Fedora 8 (Werewolf)", it  
>  was frozen
>  at a message "running /sbin/loader".
>  How can I collect debug-infos? 
Upgrading to Fedora 8 with preupgrade is not supported. Future  
versions of preupgrade don't allow that. Try Rawhide instead.

-w

[Kazutoshi Morioka]

Oh, thanks, and, it's sad...
I will try to upgrade to Rawhide.

Will Woods wrote:
>  
>  On May 1, 2008, at 9:06 AM, Kazutoshi Morioka wrote:
>  
> > Hi, all.
> >
> > I tried to upgrade from F7 to F8 with preupgrade-0.9.2-1.fc7.i386.
> > The packages were downloaded, grub.conf was edited.
> > But after I reboot and choose "Upgrade to Fedora 8 (Werewolf)", it was 
> > frozen
> > at a message "running /sbin/loader".
> > How can I collect debug-infos?
>  
>  Upgrading to Fedora 8 with preupgrade is not supported. Future versions 
>  of preupgrade don't allow that. Try Rawhide instead.
>  
>  -w
>

[Kazutoshi Morioka]

I tried to upgrade from F8 to rawhide with preupgrade-0.9.2-1.fc8 on x86_64,
and got same result.

Kazutoshi Morioka write:
>  Oh, thanks, and, it's sad...
>  I will try to upgrade to Rawhide.
>  
>  Will Woods wrote:
> > On May 1, 2008, at 9:06 AM, Kazutoshi Morioka wrote:
> >
> >> Hi, all.
> >>
> >> I tried to upgrade from F7 to F8 with preupgrade-0.9.2-1.fc7.i386.
> >> The packages were downloaded, grub.conf was edited.
> >> But after I reboot and choose "Upgrade to Fedora 8 (Werewolf)", it was
>
> >> frozen
> >> at a message "running /sbin/loader".
> >> How can I collect debug-infos?
> > Upgrading to Fedora 8 with preupgrade is not supported. Future versions 
> > of preupgrade don't allow that. Try Rawhide instead.
> >
> > -w

[Will Woods]

On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 01:17 +0900, Kazutoshi Morioka wrote:
>  I tried to upgrade from F8 to rawhide with preupgrade-0.9.2-1.fc8 on
> x86_64,
>  and got same result. 
Strange. What's the kernel line in grub.conf for "Upgrade to Rawhide"? 

-w

[Kazutoshi Morioka]

Will Woods wrote:
>  On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 01:17 +0900, Kazutoshi Morioka wrote:
> > I tried to upgrade from F8 to rawhide with preupgrade-0.9.2-1.fc8 on x86_64,
> > and got same result.
>
>  Strange. What's the kernel line in grub.conf for "Upgrade to Rawhide"?
These lines are added to grub.conf

title Upgrade to Rawhide
        kernel /upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade lang=ja_JP.UTF-8 keymap=us
stage2=hd:sda2:/upgrade/minstg2.img
method=http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/Fedora/development/x86_64/os
        initrd /upgrade/initrd.img


Is it enough that /boot has only 100MB?

df /boot
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2               101086     86015     12984  87% /boot

# ls -l /boot/upgrade/
合計 72981
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  9936127 2008-04-30 22:01 initrd.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62431232 2008-04-30 22:04 minstg2.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2069464 2008-04-30 22:01 vmlinuz

[Kazutoshi Morioka]

I removed "lang=ja_JP.UTF-8" from kernel line, then it proceeded to language
selection screen.

Kazutoshi Morioka さんは書きました:
>  Will Woods wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 01:17 +0900, Kazutoshi Morioka wrote:
> >> I tried to upgrade from F8 to rawhide with preupgrade-0.9.2-1.fc8 on x86_64,
> >> and got same result.
> > Strange. What's the kernel line in grub.conf for "Upgrade to Rawhide"?
>  
>  These lines are added to grub.conf
>  
>  title Upgrade to Rawhide
>          kernel /upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade lang=ja_JP.UTF-8 keymap=us
>  stage2=hd:sda2:/upgrade/minstg2.img
>  method=http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/Fedora/development/x86_64/os
>          initrd /upgrade/initrd.img
>  
>  
>  Is it enough that /boot has only 100MB?
>  
>  df /boot
>  Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
>  /dev/sda2               101086     86015     12984  87% /boot
>  
>  # ls -l /boot/upgrade/
>  合計 72981
>  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  9936127 2008-04-30 22:01 initrd.img
>  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62431232 2008-04-30 22:04 minstg2.img
>  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2069464 2008-04-30 22:01 vmlinuz
>

[Will Woods]

On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 01:38 +0900, Kazutoshi Morioka wrote:
>  I removed "lang=ja_JP.UTF-8" from kernel line, then it
> proceeded to language
>  selection screen. 
This sounds like bug #444258:
preupgrade locks when system is set to Romanian

We've reproduced the problem and reopened the bug. Working on finding
the cause (and a fix) now.

-w