On 11/03/2010 02:13 PM, Colin Brace wrote: > > Hi all, > > Earlier today I tried upgrading my F13 system to F14 with preupgrade, but > ran into the dreaded "Unable to read package metadata... cannot retrieve > repository metadata..." error, which I've repeatedly encountered with > preupdgrade previously. > > I tried moving /var/cache/yum to a different drive with more space but that > didn't work. Finally, I moved the entire /var directory from a separate > partition to the root partition, changing fstab accordingly, rebooting, and > then finally the upgrade proceeded as it should. > > Don't know what the deal is with preupgrade, but in terms of paths and > partitions etc it is hardly bulletproof. I believe preupgrade starts before any of the other partitions are mounted. Thus if /var is on a separate partition than / you may run into issues. I've been bitten by this with using multipathd as well, as it wants to write to /var/lib, but /var isn't mounted when multipathd starts. There are several things that are a bit, well, stupid in those areas. I can see not going to multiuser mode (run level >1), but to start up before mounting the filesystems? Sheesh! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, C2 Hosting ricks@xxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Millihelen, adj: The amount of beauty required to launch one ship. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
