preupgrade ate my F10 system

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 09:03:33PM -0700, john wendel wrote:
>
> Just wanted to moan and complain a little... And offer a warning, DO A  
> BACKUP FIRST.
>
> Tried to use preupgrade on an F10 box today, it was a spectacular  
> failure. Got all the packages downloaded and the install started just  
> fine. Then the system crashed (flashing keyboard lights, no brains left)  
> while updating the selinux profiles.  After this the system wouldn't  
> boot, failed to load grub with a crc error. I booted from a live cd and  
> restored the /boot partition. After this the system booted, but it had a  
> mix of F10 and F11 packages.
>
> I restored the F10 system from the backup and all was fine, except it  
> was F10 and not F11. Tomorrow, I'll do a real install.

In a significant number of cases, 'yum-complete-transaction' will
finish the upgrade for you.  I agree this is not a good result, and we
*really* want preupgrade to improve for everyone, so if you can file a
bug that includes the appropriate logs, it would be much appreciated.

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