Issues with preupgrade F15B?

[Philip A. Prindeville]

On 05/12/2011 11:49 AM, Philip A. Prindeville wrote:
> On 05/12/2011 09:01 AM, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote:
>> On 05/12/2011 12:20 AM, Philip A. Prindeville wrote:
>>> I'm seeing the following after trying to update an fc14.x86_64 platform (updated) to Lovelock (F15B) with preupgrade:
>>>
>>>    Booting 'Upgrade to Fedora 15 (Lovelock)'
>>>
>>> kernel /upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade ks=hd:UUID=da026107-5d0c-4c77-9fa4-502576c05cdd:/upgrade/ks.cfg
>>>     [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x4000, size=0x3ac3d0]
>>> initrd /upgrade/initrd.img
>>>
>>>
>>> then it hangs.
>> It took upwards of 10 minutes for me to see activity. I was sitting 
>> there waiting for it to do something, and started to chat to people on 
>> IRC, midway through it all of a sudden continued on. Have you waited 
>> that long?
>>
> Well, I'm 27 minutes into it, and I've not seen anything beyond the "initrd ..." message.
>
> I also can't ping the box... but it does respond to "CAPS LOCK" on an attached keyboard.
>
> Who owns the initrd image?  Can I pepper it with some tracing so we can see how far it's getting and where it's hanging up?
>
> -Philip
>

I'm not seeing any interest in resolving this, so I'm going to go ahead with a yum update instead.

Too bad, the problem was 100% reproducible, so it might have been a good source of information into this problem.

-Philip