preupgrade failure problem with swap Solved
Don Vogt
dnvot at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 27 15:07:57 UTC 2010
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> Message: 15
> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:10:30 +0000 (UTC)
> From: JB <jb.123abc at yahoo.com>
> Subject: fc13 preupgrade failure on swap
> To: users at lists.fedoraproject.org
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> Don Vogt <dnvot <at> yahoo.com> writes:
>
> >
> > I have been using fedora since fedora 4 with great
> satisfaction. I tried to
> > do an fc12 to fc13 preupgrade. All
> > went fine until I was running anaconda ( I believe)
> with the install.img.
> > I got a pop-up that said the swap
> > device has not been created and that " The /etc/fstab
> on your upgrade
> > partition does not reference a valid
> > swap device" When I click OK the system reboots and
> the upgrade fails.
> > I have checked my swaps in the fc12 system and
> they seem OK, Top shows
> > the swap partitions are there " I
> > actually have three swap partition on two different
> drives. I checked
> > the swaps in fstab on fc12 using
> > findfs and they seem OK, UIIDs and /dev entries. I
> suspect that the upgrade
> > partition it refers to is in the install.img.
> > I have another partition with fc13, on which I
> used preupgrade to upgrade
> > from fc12 It was a very smooth procedure. That kind of
> rules out hard drive
> > problems. Unless something changed.
> > Does anyone have a suggestion on how to fix fstab, or
> what the problem
> > might be?
> > Also, is there a way to undo the preupgrade attempt,
> so I can try again?
> > Any other suggestions will be welcome.
> >
> Hi,
> please give us more info (do not cut/edit the output).
>
> Layout of both disks:
> # fdisk -l /dev/sda
> # fdisk -l /dev/sdb
>
> For F12 (the one you try to preupgrade) log in and get an
> output:
> # cat /etc/fstab
> For F13 (the one you already preupgrade-ed) log in and get
> an output:
> # cat /etc/fstab
>
> By the way:
> when you run preupgrade the next time (2nd, 3rd, etc) you
> are asked whether
> you want to continue from the point of previous
> stop/failure point or from
> the very beginning.
> IMPORTANT: I would advise you to stop changing anything on
> your machine (disk
> layout, swaps, /etc/fstab, etc) so that the data I ask you
> for above is true
> from that point on and we can help you !
> JB
>
>
>
>
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I found an easy solution and completed the preupgrade last night.
First i tried adding a swap file, because the message said my fstab does not have a valid swap file. I thought it might be making a distinction between swap partitions and a swap file. That didn't make any difference.
I then commented out my swap partitions in the fc12 fstab and tried preupgrade again and it worked.
Sorry, I didn't get your message about not changing things until this morning.
In case you still want here are the outputs you asked for
sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 13.6 GB, 13601193984 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1653 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000bbbf3
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 261 2096451 6 FAT16
/dev/sda2 262 1653 11181240 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 262 522 2096451 6 FAT16
/dev/sda6 523 783 2096451 6 FAT16
/dev/sda7 784 1000 1743021 6 FAT16
/dev/sda8 1001 1576 4626688+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 1621 1653 265041 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/sdb: 4303 MB, 4303272960 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 523 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000c786b
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 409 3285261 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 410 523 915705 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/sdc: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000d0450
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 127 1020096 83 Linux
/dev/sdc2 128 2677 20482875 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sdc3 2678 6501 30716280 83 Linux
/dev/sdc4 6502 19237 102301920 5 Extended
/dev/sdc5 6502 10325 30716248+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdc6 10326 10580 2048256 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdc7 * 10581 18987 67529196 83 Linux
/dev/sdc8 18988 19237 2008093+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
from the upgraded system.
cat /etc/fstab
#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Tue Jul 27 05:06:07 2010
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info
#
UUID=0c1a3c8c-1564-4b4a-979e-31f46199079e / ext3 defaults 1 1
UUID=3ab5d70f-8de3-4eaf-b30c-83a477bc4797 swap swap defaults 0 0
UUID=33a1e0cd-06cb-4e79-883d-f1ccf50e73c6 swap swap defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
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