Extra Extra read all about it - Preupgrade released....

[Will Woods]

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/Fedora/i386/os
>         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
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