> > The old F13 kernel, which are booting partly but failing with some > > graphic card problems include root hd(0,0), also. > > If the old root was hd(0,0) then preupgrade should leave your root > as hd(0,0). > > If you follow Joe's suggestion about running fdisk from a live CD, can > you also show the contents of your /etc/grub.conf and /etc/fstab. > > > After reboot the > > upgrade process failed upgrading one package > > I interpret this a meaning that all the packages were downloaded, but > after it asked you to reboot and you did, it started the upgrade but > failed part way through. > > This is a likely cause of your problem. Do you remember the package > that failed? Or any error message preupgrade might have printed at the > time of failure? It sounds like your system was in the middle of > upgrading and hung. Is that true? If that is the case, it gives a > reason for your problem. Is it possible you ran out of disk space for > the upgrade? It takes almost twice as much room because it has to > store two versions of everything before upgrading. > -- > 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 To confirm your questions: Yes, the upgrade failed in the middle of the reboot / upgrade process. The package was a parallel data viewer (I think paraview) which I installed rather out of curiosity. After it failed I had not written down any messages, since I didn't expect the whole system to be killed if a single unused application has problems! I don't believe in disk full problems, but I can't be sure, since I am not able to mount sda2. (see below after fdisk output) # fdisk -l [root@localhost liveuser]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250000000000 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30394 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x28000000 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 64 512000 83 Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2 64 30395 243627008 8e Linux LVM Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250000000000 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30394 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0008e400 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 30394 244139773+ 83 Linux Disk /dev/dm-0: 3221 MB, 3221225472 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 391 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/dm-1: 3221 MB, 3221225472 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 391 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/dm-2: 53.7 GB, 53687091200 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 6527 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-2 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/dm-3: 187.3 GB, 187334393856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 22775 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-3 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/dm-4: 8422 MB, 8422162432 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1023 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-4 doesn't contain a valid partition table # cat /etc/grub.conf cat: /etc/grub.conf: No such file or directory # cat /etc/fstab /dev/root / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 But this is the live-cd! # mkdir sda1 # mount /dev/sda1 sda1 # ls sda1 config-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64 lost+found config-2.6.34.7-56.fc13.x86_64 memtest86+-4.10 config-2.6.34.7-61.fc13.x86_64 System.map-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64 config-2.6.35.6-48.fc14.x86_64 System.map-2.6.34.7-56.fc13.x86_64 efi System.map-2.6.34.7-61.fc13.x86_64 elf-memtest86+-4.10 System.map-2.6.35.6-48.fc14.x86_64 grub upgrade initramfs-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64.img vmlinuz-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64 initramfs-2.6.34.7-56.fc13.x86_64.img vmlinuz-2.6.34.7-56.fc13.x86_64 initramfs-2.6.34.7-61.fc13.x86_64.img vmlinuz-2.6.34.7-61.fc13.x86_64 initrd-plymouth.img vmlinuz-2.6.35.6-48.fc14.x86_64 # mkdir sda2 # mount /dev/sda2 sda2 mount: unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member' Does this make sense to you? Cheers, and already thanks a lot, Philipp -- GMX DSL Doppel-Flat ab 19,99 €/mtl.! Jetzt auch mit gratis Notebook-Flat! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl -- 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
