http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Interviews/PreUpgrade Will and Seth anything you would like to add to testers? BTW. Great work guys :) You can get preupgrade here... http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=6045 or do.. koji download-build --arch=noarch preupgrade-0.9-2.fc8 ( fc9 for fc9 ) rpm -ihv preupgrade-0.9-2.fc8.noarch.rpm If you have koji installed.. There's no use filing bugs just yet since this has not made it to the components list in bugzilla. ( correct me if I'm wrong I did not find it.. ) Claiming the first bug found :) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 196, in on_assistant_apply self._do_main() File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 204, in _do_main self.main_preupgrade() File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 358, in main_preupgrade (mdev,mpath) = preupgrade.bootpath_to_anacondapath(self.pu.bootpath+"/"+stage2file) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/preupgrade/__init__.py", line 119, in bootpath_to_anacondapath if dev.endswith(bootdev): TypeError: expected a character buffer object

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Interviews/PreUpgrade Will and Seth anything you would like to add to testers? BTW. Great work guys :) You can get preupgrade here... http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=6045 or do.. koji download-build --arch=noarch preupgrade-0.9-2.fc8 ( fc9 for fc9 ) rpm -ihv preupgrade-0.9-2.fc8.noarch.rpm If you have koji installed.. There's no use filing bugs just yet since this has not made it to the components list in bugzilla. ( correct me if I'm wrong I did not find it.. ) Claiming the first bug found :) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 196, in on_assistant_apply self._do_main() File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 204, in _do_main self.main_preupgrade() File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 358, in main_preupgrade (mdev,mpath) = preupgrade.bootpath_to_anacondapath(self.pu.bootpath+"/"+stage2file) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/preupgrade/__init__.py", line 119, in bootpath_to_anacondapath if dev.endswith(bootdev): TypeError: expected a character buffer object

And the fourth :) .. Or the first RFE :) .. Missing the option to run it from the cli. Something like preupgrade -r or --repo ( repo ) -s or --silent or -v or --verbose, -b --reboot ( reboot when done ) etc..

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > >And the fourth :) .. Or the first RFE :) .. > >Missing the option to run it from the cli. >Something like preupgrade -r or --repo ( repo ) -s or --silent or -v or >--verbose, -b --reboot ( reboot when done ) etc..

On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 19:59 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: > > Meaning no denigration to all those who work so hard to bring us a nice > operating system, if Fedora is in many ways a testing ground for RH, > which is more of a server O/S, I don't know too many sysadmins who are > going to rely on a GUI only tool for upgrading a bunch of headless > servers. > Actually, it was originally, just a cli. Then we wanted to spend some time on the gui and that was done. Then we got sidetracked and never got back to the cli part. preupgrade is ver 0.9 right now. Before we hit ver 1.0 the cli bits will work again. Right now they need a few hours of attention to check over what it should be doing. I just haven't had the time to devote to correcting it.

2) RFEs etc. go to Trac: http://fedorahosted.org/preupgrade/ You can file bugs there too, at least until bugzilla has a 'preupgrade' component.

Jóhann B. Guðmundsson <johannbg <at> hi.is> writes: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Interviews/PreUpgrade > > Will and Seth anything you would like to add to testers? > [...] Got a bug too!!! :-D Does preupgrade work behind a proxy server? File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 196, in on_assistant_apply self._do_main() File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 204, in _do_main self.main_preupgrade() File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 316, in main_preupgrade installed_pkgcount = len(self.pu.doPackageLists().installed) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 1141, in doPackageLists avail = self.pkgSack.returnNewestByNameArch() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 529, in <lambda> pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(), File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 384, in _getSacks self.repos.populateSack(which=repos) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 242, in populateSack sack.populate(repo, mdtype, callback, cacheonly) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 142, in populate if self._check_db_version(repo, mydbtype): File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 199, in _check_db_version if repo.repoXML.repoData.has_key(mdtype): File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 774, in <lambda> repoXML = property(fget=lambda self: self._getRepoXML(), File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 770, in _getRepoXML raise Errors.RepoError, msg yum.Errors.RepoError: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: anaconda-upgrade. Please verify its path and try again

seth vidal <skvidal <at> fedoraproject.org> writes: > do you have http_proxy defined in your environment as root? I thought I did but had forgotten I had set it up in /etc/yum.conf... Sorry for the noise!

seth vidal <skvidal <at> fedoraproject.org> writes: > Does it work, now? It does: I'm currently downloading packages...

On Apr 16, 2008, at 9:40 AM, seth vidal wrote: > On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 13:27 +0000, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote: >> seth vidal <skvidal <at> fedoraproject.org> writes: >>> Does it work, now? >> >> It does: I'm currently downloading packages... > > good, but I need to make sure that error gets caught properly. Maybe we should parse the main yum.conf for proxy config and such?

seth vidal <skvidal <at> fedoraproject.org> writes: > good, but I need to make sure that error gets caught properly. True at least to show a pop up or something because when it happens, the application just hangs (and killing the gui leaves a python process running). In the end, preupgrade downloaded 1.5 GB worth of packages and I rebooted to start the upgrade. Sadly anaconda crashes right away (SIGSEV), looks like it's having problem with stage2 because it claims in cannot 'find an ext2 filesystem on dev loop0' right after trying to mount it as an isofs image (file tells me minstg2.img is a squashfs image): minstg2.img: Squashfs filesystem, little endian, version 3.1, 60449651 bytes, 10107 inodes, blocksize: 131072 bytes, created: Wed Mar 19 19:00:09 2008 Here's what my grub.conf looks like: title Upgrade to Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Beta kernel /upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade lang=en_US.UTF-8 keymap=us stage2=hd:sda1:/upgrade/minstg2.img method=http://fedora.mirror.facebook.com/linux/releases/test/9-Beta/Fedor... initrd /upgrade/initrd.img

On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 17:40 +0000, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote: > seth vidal <skvidal <at> fedoraproject.org> writes: > >> good, but I need to make sure that error gets caught properly. >> > True at least to show a pop up or something because when it happens, the > application just hangs (and killing the gui leaves a python process running). > > In the end, preupgrade downloaded 1.5 GB worth of packages and I rebooted to > start the upgrade. Sadly anaconda crashes right away (SIGSEV), looks like it's > having problem with stage2 because it claims in cannot 'find an ext2 filesystem > on dev loop0' right after trying to mount it as an isofs image (file tells me > minstg2.img is a squashfs image): > minstg2.img: Squashfs filesystem, little endian, version 3.1, 60449651 bytes, > 10107 inodes, blocksize: 131072 bytes, created: Wed Mar 19 19:00:09 2008 > > Here's what my grub.conf looks like: > title Upgrade to Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Beta > kernel /upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade lang=en_US.UTF-8 keymap=us > stage2=hd:sda1:/upgrade/minstg2.img > method=http://fedora.mirror.facebook.com/linux/releases/test/9-Beta/Fedor... > initrd /upgrade/initrd.img > Ah. Upgrading to Beta might not work. Try upgrading to Rawhide instead. Rawhide is basically the Preview Release right now, and it's got a much newer Anaconda that has fixes for a bunch of these problems. You might want to clear out the caches first, just to be 100% sure: rm -rf /var/cache/yum/anaconda-upgrade /boot/upgrade -w

Does not work..... Correct path to images are not set in grub entry nor does manually changing the path to the correct one in grub fix the issue that it cant mount/read the image...

Does preupgrade/anaconda allow to add encrypted disk to the current FS, or is that low level and need to be done on the format before install (new install).

On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 10:55 -0500, Justin Conover wrote: > Does preupgrade/anaconda allow to add encrypted disk to the current > FS, or is that low level and need to be done on the format before > install (new install). It requires reformatting and thus a fresh install Jeremy

On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 12:00 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 10:55 -0500, Justin Conover wrote: > > Does preupgrade/anaconda allow to add encrypted disk to the current > > FS, or is that low level and need to be done on the format before > > install (new install). > > It requires reformatting and thus a fresh install I thought that was the point of PreUpgrade, to allow to do tasks that can't be done on an active system (like via yum)?

Ah. Upgrading to Beta might not work. Try upgrading to Rawhide instead. [...] You might want to clear out the caches first, just to be 100% sure: rm -rf /var/cache/yum/anaconda-upgrade /boot/upgrade

On Thursday 24 April 2008 17:30:43 Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote: > Hey there, > > Will Woods <wwoods <at> redhat.com> writes: > > Ah. Upgrading to Beta might not work. Try upgrading to Rawhide instead. > > [...] > > You might want to clear out the caches first, just to be 100% sure: > > rm -rf /var/cache/yum/anaconda-upgrade /boot/upgrade > > So I just tried again using 0.9.2.fc8 on an FC8 install and it dies while > it tries to mount the cd images for Fedora??? > IE the error message is "What partition and directory on that partition > hold the CD (iso9660) images for Fedora?" > > Any clue of what's going on there?

Same problem here, I have an update F8 system. preupgrade runs OK (nice graphical touch BTW :-) ). But then on restart I get the same problem. I took the version 0.9.2.fc8 from koji.

Same problem here, I have an update F8 system. preupgrade runs OK (nice graphical touch BTW ). But then on restart I get the same problem. I took the version 0.9.2.fc8 from koji.