fedup experience for upgrading fedora 19 to fedora 20

[Fred Smith]

On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 05:42:37PM +0100, Rafnews wrote:
>    Hi,
>    after several days of testing upgrading Fedora 19 to fedora 20, i face
>    the same issue.
>    whatever Virtual machine i use (Virtualbox or VMware Workstation) the
>    result is always the same... after upgrading the virtual machine turns
>    into a black/blank screen and nothing can be done.
>    it doesn't machine if i install or not virtualbox tools (or vmware
>    toold) it's the same results.
>    Here are the basic features of my virtual machine
>      * 1 CPU / 2cores,
>      * 4GB RAM
>      * 128MB Video
> 
>    to reproduce the issue:
>    1. launch VMWare Workstation 10 and install Fedora 19 x64 from DVD iso
>    2. as root, do a yum update to be sure fedora 19 is up to date
>    3. do a yum install fedup (to get latest version of fedup)
>    4. do a snapshot for fallback in case of...be sure you will need it
>    5. do a fedup --network 20
>    6. reboot after upgrade
>    7. ==> after booting via grub2, your virtual machine with turn into a
>    blank screen :(
>    the same issue with VirtualBox.
>    after that i tried yum install fedora-release fedora-update but i get
>    the same result.
>    So anybody has an idea what is the problem ?

a wild guess: Did you make sure you had fedup version 0.8? earlier versions
will apparently leave you with a broken system.


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