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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