Preupgrade testing results.

Wed Apr 16 18:19:11 UTC 2008

Round one.

Hardware.

Dell inspiron 6000 ( i686 )
 ( 
http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_b9b84fa4-4248-4c6d-8a4e-904f04246a13 )

Testing setup.

Note this is as basic as it gets. standard installation
standard package selection no extra repo no special partition layout...

Fresh Fedora 7 Default installation
(  next next next done etc.. ).
SElinux on.
Language used during install process English
Keyboard Layout Icelandic
Install ( not upgrade )
IPv6 support disabled.
Timezone Atlantic/Reykjavik UTC
Default partition layout, whole disk used.
Kernel parameters needed during F7 installation = None

System was then updated to latest updates available for F7.

Additional packages installed
NetworkManager-*  and rpm*.

Preupgrade fc8 src package was then fetch from koji
and rebuild ed on the F7 host.
( Just for my own curiosity  )

I then installed the preupgrade package I had build
and ran preupgrade,  which ran flawlessly :)
and then asked me to reboot.

After reboot I had to add the kernel parameter acpi=off <--- !!!
to proceed with upgrade.
( I cant recall if I had to do it with F8 dvd install but will soon find 
out : > )

I then did update the system and ran preupgrade again (to F9 Beta )
which I had to use the acpi=off kernel parameter again.
But upgrade failed and revealed two bugs..

#Bug 1

Took me quite some time to figure this one out because
the process seemed to work but for some reason it only
wanted to upgrade e2fsprogs - 1.40.2-10.f8.i386 ?
Any way I start looking at the /etc/yum.repo/ and noticed
that the development repo had not changed to rawhide during
the upgrade process fixed that and then I look at /boot/grub.conf
and BOOM there it was staring me  in the face as it
had been doing the whole time ( I always needed to add acpi=off KP)

Incorrect path given to fetch the image..

Path given..
method=http://ftp.rhnet.is/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/os

Path I should have had...

method=http://ftp.rhnet.is/pub/fedora/linux/releases/test/9-Beta/Fedora/i386/os/

# Bug 2

Then I just change the path to the correct one and then another bug 
revealed it self.
It started to complain about not being able to fetch the image...
so I tried different mirrors but to no prevail..

The error msg I should have received was unable to mount image..

<4>ISOFS: Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
<4>VFS Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev loop0.
<3>SQUASHFS error: MajorMinor mismatch, trying to mount newer 3.1 filesystem
<3>SQUASHFS error: Please update your kernel
<3>cramfs: wrong magic <-- lol black magic :)
<3>FAT: bogus number of reserverd sectors
<6>VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev loop0.

Another bugs..

# Bug 3

It does not clean up after itself.
( Delete /boot/upgrade and remove the entry in grub.conf )

# Bug 4

Outdated Art should default to waves instead of infinity and copyright 
should say 2003 - 2008
instead of 2003 - 2007 in anaconda.

It also defaults to installation instead of an upgrade.
AFAIK we don't keep backup of users data
so you might wanna default this to an upgrade instead :)
( preupgrade right.. )

Total number of F7 packages upgraded by preupgrade 742
Total number of F7 packages that were not upgraded by preupgrade 131 <-- !!
Total number of F7 packages that were not updated after updating F8 46  
<--  !!!

Upgrade error in upgrade.log after F8 upgrade.

error: %postun(avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1

F8 update errors...

libsepol.sepol_genbools_array: boolean cron_can_relabel no longer in policy
error: %postun(avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1

Packages not upgraded nor updated after upgrade.....

xorg-x11-drv-dynapro-1.1.0-3.fc7
libevent-1.3b-1.fc7
words-3.0-12.fc7
wavpack-4.41-1.fc7
bitmap-fonts-0.3-5.1.2.fc7
gawk-3.1.5-15.fc7
grep-2.5.1-57.fc7
aspell-0.60.5-3.fc7
zip-2.31-3.fc7
festival-speechtools-libs-1.2.96-1.fc7
xorg-x11-drv-penmount-1.1.0-3.fc7
festvox-slt-arctic-hts-0.20061229-1.fc7
sinjdoc-0.5-4.fc7
quota-3.14-1.fc7
festvox-kal-diphone-0.19990610-1.fc7
dbus-python-0.82.3-1.fc7
dosfstools-2.11-8.fc7
libiptcdata-1.0.2-1.fc7
xorg-x11-drv-citron-2.2.0-2.fc7
man-1.6e-3.fc7
mailx-8.1.1-46.fc7
device-mapper-multipath-0.4.7-11.fc7
preupgrade-0.9-2.fc7
ttmkfdir-3.0.9-24.fc7
htmlview-4.0.0-3.fc7
bittorrent-gui-4.4.0-5.fc7
gnome-mime-data-2.18.0-2.fc7
gnome-netstatus-2.12.1-1.fc7
fakeroot-1.6.4-15.fc7
festival-1.96-1.fc7
gdbm-1.8.0-27.fc7
libsysfs-2.1.0-1.fc7
libiec61883-1.1.0-1.fc7
mktemp-1.5-25.fc7
libopenraw-0.0.2-5.fc7
avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7
ethtool-5-1.fc7
fbset-2.1-24.fc7
libopenraw-gnome-0.0.2-5.fc7
festival-lib-1.96-1.fc7
openvpn-2.1-0.19.rc4.fc7
xorg-x11-drv-microtouch-1.1.0-2.fc7
bittorrent-4.4.0-5.fc7
kpartx-0.4.7-11.fc7
rp-pppoe-3.8-1.fc7
xorg-x11-drv-dmc-1.1.0-3.fc7
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