fedup experience for upgrading fedora 19 to fedora 20
Richard Vickery
richard.vickeryrv at gmail.com
Sat Jan 4 19:35:24 UTC 2014
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Rafnews <raf.news at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 04.01.2014 18:34, Fred Smith wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> in fact i did a yum install fedup
> and i got the version 0.8.3 as far as i remember.
>
>
> It may be a stupid suggestion: fedup-cli --network 20 as opposed to fedup
--network 20
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