fedup f19-f20 success (sort of)

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Tue Dec 17 23:54:25 UTC 2013


On Tue, 2013-12-17 at 16:45 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:59:20AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2013-12-17 at 14:07 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
> > > After reboot into fedup, it 
> > > gave *no indication at all* that it was doing anything.  I was sure it was 
> > > hosed, ....
> > 
> > It should show a graphical bootsplash with a progress bar on tty1, and
> > if you hit esc, a text boot screen with more detailed info.
> 
> I run into an experience similar to Neal's when trying a f17->f19 fedup
> upgrade.  A splash screen, no progress bar of any kind, no reaction to
> whatever one is trying on a keyboard.  A drive light was flickering from
> time to time, though, so I left it sit for a looong time before
> eventually rebooting with a help of a power switch.  From a timestamp
> on a new initramfs it was good that I was really patient. :-)  An automatic
> reboot was supposed to happen according to logs but reality was
> different.

F17's fedup was much more primitive code, the progress stuff wasn't
implemented till later.

> OTOH the whole upgrade was eventually performed and this was still
> a "very early fedup" (but run actually so late that results were likely
> not that interesting) so I did not bother anybody with this mixed
> impressions.
> 
> > sounds like somehow that didn't work for you?
> 
> Difficult to say what as afterwards everything looked "normal".
> 
>    Michal

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