FC3rc5

Elliot Lee sopwith at redhat.com
Mon Nov 1 16:41:40 UTC 2004


On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Andrew W. Donoho wrote:

> On Oct 31, 2004, at 11:17, Andrew W. Donoho wrote:
> > On Oct 30, 2004, at 23:51, Andrew W. Donoho wrote:
> >> 	I tried to upgrade an FC2 SMP i686 system on an LVM managed disk. 
> >> The system did not update grub properly. When I hand edited grub, the 
> >> system then panicked. I'll report more later after I've had time to 
> >> dig in deeper.
> >
> >
> > Folks,
> >
> > 	I tried re-updating the system. I got the same error:
> >
> > After NASH loads:
> >
> > mount: error 6 mounting ext3
> > mount: error 2 mounting none
> > switchroot: mount failed: 22
> > umount /initrd/dev failed 2
> > Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

> > 	I'll keep the system this way for awhile waiting for someone's 
> > response to these messages. Otherwise I'll scrub the drive and restart 
> > from scratch. Bear in mind that this system was running fine under 
> > FC2.
> 
> Folks,
> 
> 	Does anybody want to know what went wrong upgrading my system from FC2 
> -> FC3rc5? I don't know where to start sleuthing to tell you what went 
> wrong. The system boots fine with the FC3rc5 Rescue disk. Therefore, I 
> can go traipsing through the file system. So a response from someone, 
> perhaps FC3rc5 test requester, Mr. Lee, would be appreciated. Or was 
> this community testing request hoo-ha just a waste of all of our time?

We'd need more information on the problem, and some sort of diagnosis,
before a fix would be possible. We also need a report in bugzilla with
these details.

If it's not in bugzilla, it's not a bug, :)
-- Elliot




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