recommend some info on hot to upgrade from F15 to F16 using preupgrade

[Martín Marqués]

That's all I want (what's in the subject).

I've had some headaches with preupgrade, basically, I guess, because I
have /var on another partition.

[James Wilkinson]

Martín Marqués wrote:
> That's all I want (what's in the subject).
>
> I've had some headaches with preupgrade, basically, I guess, because I
> have /var on another partition.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_PreUpgrade
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F16_bugs#preupgrade-bootloader-fail

Hope this helps,

James.

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[Anamitra Dutta Majumdar]

I am looking for a version of OpenSSH that has support for RFC 6187 and
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Is there such a version out there yet.

Thanks,
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>

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On 03/02/2012 09:36 PM, Anamitra Dutta Majumdar *broke* thread:

*recommend some info on hot to upgrade from F15 to F16 using preupgrade*

anamitra,

please do not break threads.

please open your own thread.

thank you.

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 17:01:12 -0300
Martín Marqués  wrote:
> That's all I want (what's in the subject).
>
> I've had some headaches with preupgrade, basically, I guess, because I
> have /var on another partition.

Preupgrade randomly fails anyway. Its great when it works but it's a bit
of a russian roulette experience.

1. Make a backup

2. Check your backup

3. Install the fedora-release-* rpms from F16

4. Go to run level 3 (or 1) and a text mode console (this is vital for
15->16). If you don't then the desktop will go berzerk mid upgrade and
it'll end in a nasty mess.

5. yum upgrade yum

6. yum upgrade

7. check your /boot/grub2.cfg looks sane. Whether you upgrade or use the
CD or whatever F16 is incredibly broken here and frequently totally
screws this up preventing booting from anything but rescue media. If its
broken you may need to screw about by hand until it concedes defeat and
generates you the right bits

Reboot

Fix up your services (as per F15 to F16 upgrade notes), something else
Fedora makes a hash of however you upgrade.

and then all should be well.

[Mickey]

On 03/02/2012 03:59 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 17:01:12 -0300
> Martín Marqués  wrote:
> > That's all I want (what's in the subject).
> >
> > I've had some headaches with preupgrade, basically, I guess, because I
> > have /var on another partition.
>
> Preupgrade randomly fails anyway. Its great when it works but it's a bit
> of a russian roulette experience.
>
> Make a backup
>
> Check your backup
>
> Install the fedora-release-* rpms from F16
>
> Go to run level 3 (or 1) and a text mode console (this is vital for
>
> 15->16). If you don't then the desktop will go berzerk mid upgrade and
> it'll end in a nasty mess.
>
> yum upgrade yum
>
> yum upgrade
>
> check your /boot/grub2.cfg looks sane. Whether you upgrade or use the
>
> CD or whatever F16 is incredibly broken here and frequently totally
> screws this up preventing booting from anything but rescue media. If its
> broken you may need to screw about by hand until it concedes defeat and
> generates you the right bits
>
> Reboot
>
> Fix up your services (as per F15 to F16 upgrade notes), something else
> Fedora makes a hash of however you upgrade.
>
> and then all should be well.

Believe me !!!
Do a clean install.
And partition your hard drive with gparted.
Give / 40 % and /home 60% and 1024 for Swap .
This way the next time you upgrade you will not format /home, format / 
only and do a fresh install.
Preupgrade never works as it should, Any third party apps you have will 
give you problems because of mismatch in Versions.
I have tried preupgrade a number of times and it never works right after 
upgrade.

[Suvayu Ali]

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 22:19, Jim  wrote:
> I have tried preupgrade a number of times and it never works right after
> upgrade.

And it worked every time I tried it! F13->F14, F13->F15, F14->F16 :)

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 01:36 +0100, suvayu ali wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 22:19, Jim  wrote:
> > I have tried preupgrade a number of times and it never works right after
> > upgrade.
>
> And it worked every time I tried it! F13->F14, F13->F15, F14->F16 :)

Same here, but F12->F13->F14->F15->F16.

poc

[Martín Marqués]

2012/3/2 Alan Cox :
> On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 17:01:12 -0300
> Martín Marqués  wrote:
> > That's all I want (what's in the subject).
> >
> > I've had some headaches with preupgrade, basically, I guess, because I
> > have /var on another partition.
>
> Preupgrade randomly fails anyway. Its great when it works but it's a bit
> of a russian roulette experience.
>
> Make a backup
>
> Check your backup
>
> Install the fedora-release-* rpms from F16

I found out that sometimes you have to do a "yum clean metadata" after
installing the release packages. Else, yum thinks he's still with the
old version (15 in this case).

I'm going to try it this way. haven't done it since F2 -> F3, so let's
see how it goes.

[Martín Marqués]

El día 4 de marzo de 2012 09:07, Martín Marqués
 escribió:
> 2012/3/2 Alan Cox :
> > On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 17:01:12 -0300
> > Martín Marqués  wrote:
> > > That's all I want (what's in the subject).
> > >
> > > I've had some headaches with preupgrade, basically, I guess, because I
> > > have /var on another partition.
> >
> > Preupgrade randomly fails anyway. Its great when it works but it's a bit
> > of a russian roulette experience.
> >
> > Make a backup
> >
> > Check your backup
> >
> > Install the fedora-release-* rpms from F16
>
> I found out that sometimes you have to do a "yum clean metadata" after
> installing the release packages. Else, yum thinks he's still with the
> old version (15 in this case).
>
> I'm going to try it this way. haven't done it since F2 -> F3, so let's
> see how it goes.

Just ran yum upgrade --downloadonly, and saw that yum wants to install
a bunch of i686 packages, even though I don't have any packages with
that arch (all x86_64 or noarch).

preupgrade was doing the same.

[Suvayu Ali]

On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 13:23, Martín Marqués  wrote:
> Just ran yum upgrade --downloadonly, and saw that yum wants to install
> a bunch of i686 packages, even though I don't have any packages with
> that arch (all x86_64 or noarch).
>
> preupgrade was doing the same.

Are you sure you have no 32 bit packages installed? If you have
something like skype installed, its most likely that you _do_ have 32
bit packages. What does the following tell you?

$ rpm -qa | grep -c -v -e x86_64 -e noarch -e gpg-pubkey