Re: preupgrade 10 -> 11 pain: network error

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stan wrote:
On Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:55:22 -0400
brian <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've run preupgrade to download packages, etc. At some point, there
was a msg stating that there was no room for a boot image (i
believe--it was /boot/something) but that it would be fine if I have
a wired network connection. I do, so I continued.

However, upon rebooting, I'm seeing "Waiting for NetworkManager to configure eth0 ..." followed by, "There was an error configuring your network interface."

The box is, indeed, using a *working* wired ethernet connection (I downloaded the packages, after all). I am not using DHCP. The box is
on an internal LAN with a floppyFW router.


Do you have command prompt access at that point? If you do, try running ifconfig, to see what is going on.
Check /var/log/messages.  Network Manager probably has an error log,
but I'm not familiar with it.

If you have a static IP address (that's how I interpret 'I'm not using
DHCP'), then you should just need to, as root, do   ifup eth0   .

I think NM is getting confused by the static address.

Thanks for the response. I had to go out for a bit and, after booting, I got back into F10 without any problem. I'd assumed (yeah, I know) that it would attempt to continue the install process again.

I see nothing at all in /var/log/messages between when I rebooted at preupgrade's prompt and this latest boot. I guess nothing is logged when booting into anaconda. Does that make sense?

There are anaconda.[log,syslog,xlog] but those are from Jan. 2008 :-(

As for getting a command line, this I did try when faced with the installer erro. I should have been more clear about that: how can I get a terminal from that point?


3) how to then retry the upgrade process?

Do the preupgrade command again.  All the packages will already have
been downloaded, so it will be faster, though still not quick.  But if
your network card is the issue, it will fail the same way until you can
get around the NM error in finding your card.  Check at bugzilla if
this issue has been reported, and if there is a workaround there.

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/


I figured that as the packages are already here. So, if I can resize the /boot partition, preupgrade should then grab what it needs and I can avoid the network problem, maybe? As I see it, I either find a way to get a terminal from within anaconda after the reboot, or I somehow resize /boot. This latter I've been trying to sort out with my good friend google. If anyone cares to chip in, my disk details are below.


[popper@apollo ~]$ fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00086507

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/sda2              14        9964    79931407+  8e  Linux LVM

Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1        9729    78148161   83  Linux

[popper@apollo ~]$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
                       19G  4.9G   14G  28% /
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02
                       24G   14G  9.4G  59% /home
/dev/sda1              99M   49M   46M  52% /boot
tmpfs                 743M  636K  743M   1% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol05
                      4.8G  520M  4.0G  12% /usr/local
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol04
                       13G  6.8G  5.2G  57% /var
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol03
                      6.8G   19M  6.5G   1% /tmp
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol06
                      3.8G  218M  3.4G   6% /opt
/dev/sdb1              74G   13G   58G  18% /mnt/backup

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