f11 to f12 with preugrade doesn't find root device

[He Rui]

On 11/20/2009 06:03 PM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:58:44 +0800 He Rui wrote:
>    
>> It seems that you preupgraded your system to f12 (constantine), whose anaconda is
>> 12.46. You can see it by:
>> yum info anaconda
>> And your issue is different from mine. So if your problem depended on preupgrade
>> package, you can try the latest version preupgrade-1.1.3-1.fc11 . Please file a bug
>> if it is clarified.
>>      
> [root@ ~]# yum info anaconda
> Loaded plugins: downloadonly, fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> Available Packages
> Name       : anaconda
> Arch       : x86_64
> Version    : 11.5.0.59
> Release    : 1.fc11
> Size       : 5.5 M
> Repo       : fedora
> Summary    : Graphical system installer
> URL        : http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda
> License    : GPLv2+
> Description: The anaconda package contains the program which was used
> to install your
>            : system.  These files are of little use on an already
> installed system.
>    
> [root at virtfed ~]# rpm -q anaconda
> package anaconda is not installed
> [root at virtfed ~]# rpm -qa|grep anaconda
> anaconda-yum-plugins-1.0-5.fc12.noarch
>
> I think I have something yet to fix..... ;-(
> I fact, due to the strange fc11 in the yum info result... now I
> checked and I have this on my system:
> [root@ ~]# rpm -qa|grep fedora-release
> fedora-release-notes-12.0.2-1.fc12.noarch
> fedora-release-12-2.noarch
> fedora-release-11-1.noarch
>
> [root@ ~]# rpm -qf /etc/fedora-release
> fedora-release-11-1.noarch
> fedora-release-12-2.noarch
>
> and while going to complete upgrade with package-cleanup --orphans
> info, it gives as output almost all the fc12 packages installed.....
> (1255 of 1316 of output)
>
> so it seems it actually thinks to be in f11 yet (from a yum point of view...)?
>    
Yes, that's sooo wired.
> probably something to fix due to the manual steps....
> What should I do? remove the fedora-release-11-1.noarch rpm?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Gianluca
>
>    
Sorry I didn't encounter it before.  you can

#rpm -qf /etc/fedora-release

to see what's the fedora-release really belonged to.

and try

#rpm -e fedora-release-11-1.noarch

to see whether the problem can be solved.



Thanks,
He Rui


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