On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 09:03:33PM -0700, john wendel wrote: > > Just wanted to moan and complain a little... And offer a warning, DO A > BACKUP FIRST. > > Tried to use preupgrade on an F10 box today, it was a spectacular > failure. Got all the packages downloaded and the install started just > fine. Then the system crashed (flashing keyboard lights, no brains left) > while updating the selinux profiles. After this the system wouldn't > boot, failed to load grub with a crc error. I booted from a live cd and > restored the /boot partition. After this the system booted, but it had a > mix of F10 and F11 packages. > > I restored the F10 system from the backup and all was fine, except it > was F10 and not F11. Tomorrow, I'll do a real install. In a significant number of cases, 'yum-complete-transaction' will finish the upgrade for you. I agree this is not a good result, and we *really* want preupgrade to improve for everyone, so if you can file a bug that includes the appropriate logs, it would be much appreciated. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
