preupgrade

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Apr 30 20:07:43 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 22:02 +0200, Adam Pribyl wrote:
> I just tried the preupgrade on F9-PR installed on 6GB disk and it 
> actually failed due to that /boot is too small to download the image 
> there. There is otherwise only one kernel and initrd.. default anaconda 
> sizing for /boot.
> 
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
>                        4.7G  2.5G  2.3G  53% /
> /dev/sda1             190M  128M   54M  71% /boot
> 
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 196, in 
> on_assistant_apply
>      self._do_main()
>    File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 204, in _do_main
>      self.main_preupgrade()
>    File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 357, in 
> main_preupgrade
>      stage2file = self.pu.retrieve_non_critical_files()
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/preupgrade/__init__.py", line 
> 361, in retrieve_non_critical_files
>      self._retrieve_file(self.instimage,targetdir)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/preupgrade/__init__.py", line 
> 301, in _retrieve_file
>      raise PUError, "insufficient space in %s to download %s" % (targetdir, 
> item_fname)
> preupgrade.PUError: insufficient space in /boot/upgrade to download 
> minstg2.img
> 
> Then it just sits on the screen with "Downloading installer stage 2" doing 
> nothing.
> 
> I hope on bigger harddrives the /boot is aslo bigger, but the preupgrade 
> should check if there is sufficient space anyway.
> 

The above is already fixed in 0.9.2 which is in rawhide and
updates-testing.

Thanks,
-sv





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