another upgrade, another disaster

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Mon Jun 11 05:39:38 UTC 2012


On Sat, 2012-06-09 at 16:11 +0200, Martin Sourada wrote:
> I used preupgrade for the first time and had a similar experience, but
> nothing one cannot fix...
> 
> 1. Prepared the preupgrade process (f16->f17)
> 2. reboot and start upgrade
> 3. upgrade gets stuck on some package (IIRC it was something lisp
> related). No CPU or HDD usage for about half an hour
> 4. got impatient, do a hard reboot start upgrade again

Don't do this, if you can possibly avoid it. It's never a good idea to
abort an upgrade and restart it (it results in the other weirdness you
hit later). When anaconda is running, a console is available on tty2;
you can fiddle about with processes there to try and unstuck whatever's
stuck. That sounds somewhat like
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=822008 ; there's a fix in
for that bug, but it only got pushed to stable in the last day or so.
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