On Sat, 21 Jan 2017 13:36:14 -0600
Brian Hanks <bhanks(a)bhanks.net> wrote:
I decided to do a dnf upgrade of my F24 install on my HP Envy 15t
laptop (dual boot). I've done at least two successful dnf upgrades
on this laptop in the past with only minor annoyances, but this one
is a complete bust.
What was the command you used to do the upgrade? Is there anything
unusual about your installation?
Does windows still boot properly?
On boot I'm getting an ACPI Error stating something about a
"Namespace Lookup faillure" and a "Method parse execution failed".
Then it goes on to point at a log file
in /run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt which essentially repeats the same
messages I mentioned before, but then also mentions an issue with
the /dev/sda10 superblock time. That's followed by an fsck run which
fails with an error code 4.
At this point I booted into a Fedora Live distro and ran "fdisk -l"
to find that all of my Linux partitions are showing as type
"Microsoft basic data". Then and I started GParted which complained
about the "Physical block size is 2048 bytes, but Linux says it is
512 bytes." And finally, my Linux /boot partition is showing within
GParted as type FAT16.
You should open a bugzilla against dnf to document your experiences
and allow the potential to get this fixed for the future.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/
Wow, I don't even know where to start. If you have any
thoughts,
please let me know. Otherwise, I'll have to do a fresh install over
the top of this mess.
Whew, that's a bad experience.
I'm not knowledgeable enough to help you, but there are some experts
on the list, so maybe they'll be able to help you recover.
It is because of potential experiences like yours that I always do my
upgrades to new versions while leaving my old version intact. You
could just create the new partitions, and rsync your old version to the
new partitions before doing the upgrade. Then, if disaster strikes,
you have a fallback position of a working system.