Upgrade Has Caused A Downgrade

Chris Snook csnook at redhat.com
Tue Jan 6 17:55:33 UTC 2009


Gene Poole wrote:
> 
> 
> a) When you say "upgrade", do you mean telling Anaconda to upgrade an 
> existing
> installation?  Anaconda doesn't have logic to handle migrating from i386 to
> x86_64, so it's not expected to work.  Upgrading from F8 i386 to F9 i386 
> or F10
> i386 generally should work.  If you want to switch architectures, you 
> need a
> fresh install.
> 
> I attempted to upgrade from Fedora 8 x86_64 to Fedora 9 x86_64 - which 
> failed at the point where the new packages were being installed.
> 
> b) You haven't given us any diagnostic information at all.  F9 and F10 
> wouldn't
> have been released if x86_64 builds routinely failed to install, and 
> there's
> nothing exotic about your hardware, so it's highly unlikely that anyone 
> is going
> to immediately know what's wrong with your setup.  Please at least give 
> us an
> error message or something.
> 
> There is no diagnostic information from the initial install because it 
> was a 'bare metal' install. I didn't retain and logs or other diagnostic 
> information from the upgrade attempt because the machine would not boot 
> because the primary OS file systems (/; /boot; /usr) were not fully 
> populated with the Fedora 9 software - but - the Fedora 8 software was 
> no longer at a point where it would boot.

Check the other virtual consoles: ctrl-alt-f3, ctrl-alt-f4, and 
ctrl-alt-f5 will probably show you something interesting.  If you have 
to, photograph the monitor and upload the screenshot to bugzilla, but 
please don't send huge image attachments to the list.  It makes mail 
servers and spam filters very cross.

-- Chris




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