On Qui, 2012-05-31 at 14:58 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 22:21 +0200, Caterpillar wrote:
> I would like to share my experience about upgrading from Fedora 16 to
> 17 a quiet number of machines.
>
> 100% percenteage computer base have putted my hands on, had problems
> during the upgrade from Fedora 16 to 17.
> Which problems? First of all, the most happening error (~80%) is after
> preupgrade-anaconda upgrade. Once the installation of fc17 packages
> has finished, at reboot, grub2 still had Fedora 16 kernels. To fix
> that you had to start one of those kernels (and conseguentely having a
> kernel panic when doing a system restart)
I can confirm that , seems a grub problem doesn't add F17 kernel to
menu , and boots with F16 kernel
Yes. We know about that one. We've had it filed since before
release.
Actually, there are at least two issues in this area. See
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820340 ,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820351 .
No, that is not the case. See above. The issues with old kernel
sticking
around after upgrade were already known and reported before release.
The #820351 case is fundamentally more or less impossible to solve
entirely, outside of sticking Epochs in the kernel package. So there was
no point holding up the release for that. The #820340 case is specific
to preupgrade and isn't a showstopper, so we didn't hold the release for
that one either. There is an upgrade currently in testing that ought to
fix it.
To me seems grub2 bugs and I see more 2 bugs,
1- If have grub with some custom items, I don't know exactly what, I got
for example:
background_image -m
stretch /usr/share/backgrounds/verne/default/normalish/verne.png
upgrade boot entry miss at least definition of root
so I have to add set root='(hd0,msdos1)' to upgrade boot entry.
2- If I put load_video on upgrade boot entry , preupgrade boots with a
blank screen and I don't see any graphic, is a video problem. (I read
some bug block about this)
Hope that can help something.
ah and for recover a fail upgrade system , I got many tips here:
http://fedorasolved.org/Members/fenris02/post_upgrade_cleanup
but be careful not all of document is correct and is a little old.
Thanks,
--
Sérgio M. B.