F27 upgrade problem (grub)

[Frank Elsner]

Hello,

I've a problem to upgrade my fully updated Fedora 26 to Fedora 27.

dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=27 gives

Error: 
 Problem: package grub2-efi-1:2.02-0.40.fc26.i686 requires grub2-tools = 1:2.02-0.40.fc26, but none of the providers can be installed
  - grub2-tools-1:2.02-0.40.fc26.i686 does not belong to a distupgrade repository
  - problem with installed package grub2-efi-1:2.02-0.40.fc26.i686

What to do for a successful upgrade?

Kind regards,
Frank Elsner

[Frank Elsner]

On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 12:12:33 +0100 Frank Elsner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've a problem to upgrade my fully updated Fedora 26 to Fedora 27.
>
> dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=27 gives
>
> Error: 
>  Problem: package grub2-efi-1:2.02-0.40.fc26.i686 requires grub2-tools = 1:2.02-0.40.fc26, but none of the providers can be installed
> grub2-tools-1:2.02-0.40.fc26.i686 does not belong to a distupgrade repository
> problem with installed package grub2-efi-1:2.02-0.40.fc26.i686
>
> What to do for a successful upgrade?

Is it possibly a solution to remove the package grub2-efi as this is a Thinkpad 
using "legacy boot"?

--Frank Elsner

[stan]

On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 18:21:42 +0100
Frank Elsner  wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 12:12:33 +0100 Frank Elsner wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've a problem to upgrade my fully updated Fedora 26 to Fedora 27.
> >
> > dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=27 gives
> >
> > Error: 
> >  Problem: package grub2-efi-1:2.02-0.40.fc26.i686 requires
> > grub2-tools = 1:2.02-0.40.fc26, but none of the providers can be
> > installed
> > grub2-tools-1:2.02-0.40.fc26.i686 does not belong to a
> >
> > distupgrade repository
> > problem with installed package grub2-efi-1:2.02-0.40.fc26.i686
> >
> > What to do for a successful upgrade?
>
> Is it possibly a solution to remove the package grub2-efi as this is
> a Thinkpad using "legacy boot"?

Yes, that seems to be the solution, though you should check the bug.

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On Tue, 2017-11-14 at 19:07 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
> grub2-tools does not belong to a distupgrade repository, causes
> software-upgrade failure
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1491624

The problem is that grub2-efi-modules no longer exists after all the
changes to grub2 in f27, but none of the new packages provides or
obsoletes grub2-efi-modules .

When you see an error like this - where it's complaining about packages
from f26 when upgrading to f27 - the mentioned packages themselves are
not the problem. What you need to ask is "why are grub2 and grub2-tools 
not being updated to f27 versions?" And in this case the answer is
"because the old grub2-efi-modules requires grub2-tools of a matching
version, and nothing is causing the old grub2-efi-modules package to be
removed because nothing obsoletes or provides grub2-efi-modules , so
dnf is trying to keep it around, and that's why it wants to keep the
old grub2 and grub2-tools".

One of the other bug reports you closed is actually a different bug of
a similar type: nothing obsoletes/provides grub2-efi on i686.

I have cleaned up and consolidated the bug reports and poked pjones
about them. Thanks.