Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 14:10:43 -0700 From: stan <stanl-fedorauser@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Spectacular F24 to F25 dnf Upgrade Failure To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Message-ID: <20170121141043.3a363873@xxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
What was the command you used to do the upgrade? Is there anything unusual about your installation?
I used ‘dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=25’ follow by ‘dnf system-upgrade reboot’. Nothing terribly unusual. Typical dual boot Win10 & Fedora on a 3 year old HP Envy 15t laptop with two SSDs.
Does windows still boot properly?
Yes, Win10 still running fine.
You should open a bugzilla against dnf to document your experiences and allow the potential to get this fixed for the future. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/
Agreed. Unfortunately, I didn't save enough detail before moving on. I will try to recreate and capture what I need.
Whew, that's a bad experience.
I'm not knowledgeable enough to help you, but there are some experts on the list, so maybe they'll be able to help you recover.
It is because of potential experiences like yours that I always do my upgrades to new versions while leaving my old version intact. You could just create the new partitions, and rsync your old version to the new partitions before doing the upgrade. Then, if disaster strikes, you have a fallback position of a working system.
I usually use this laptop as my test machine. If it works here, then I'll run it on my other Fedora machines. For my main workstation, that's always done with a very cautious approach.
Maybe it's just me but I tend to have more issues with the odd numbered releases. Call my superstitious.
Anyway, last night I did a full re-install over this mess with a F25 net install USB image and that failed as well. With this latest attempt I deleted and recreated all partitions except for the shared efi partition. I used a basic ext4 partitioning scheme (/boot; /boot/efi; /; swap). It seemed like the install was going well but on reboot it failed. From the logs, it appears the new grub config written by the installer is looking for a device UUID that doesn't exist.
Maybe I should clear out the /boot/efi/EFI/fedora directory before re-install?
This morning I ran one additional test. I did a fresh install from a F25 XFCE Live USB. This was successful, but it leaves me with a ton of reconfiguration and restoration work. Once I get everything up and running again I will do some additional tests with the F25 net installer to see if I can accurately document what happened.
-Brian
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