On 5/5/19 7:59 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 7:49 AM Roberto Ragusa <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[root@localhost ~]# grep fedora-release /root/install.log
Installing fedora-release-3-8.i386.
[root@localhost ~]# uname -a
Linux localhost 5.0.4-200.fc29.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Mar 25 02:27:33 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
You're kind of begging for pain, at this point. Thee have been enough
subtle, fundamental, and functionally incompatible updates to
filesysems such as ext4 and xfs that a surprise at upgrade should not
shock you too much.
You are supposing the the filesystem has remained the same.
Instead, the content has been copied over a couple of times, so it is now a
fresh ext4 (on lvm, on dmcrypt, with SSD discard enabled,...).
This system was upgraded from Fedora 3 up to 29.
Also note it started as i386, but at Fedora 16 got transformed into x86_64, a kind of (manual) upgrade never
officially considered possible.
*Ouch*. OK, now you're just hurting yourself. Definitely time to back
up your old system and do a fresh install.
Turning an i386 to x86_64 was easier than expected.
First you switch to 64 bit kernel (64 bit kernel with 32 bit userspace is
a good but not widely known idea); then you add the x86_64 libs (that can
often live in parallel to i686 ones); then you switch the real applications
to x86_64 and finally you can remove i686 libs you don't want anymore (possibly
every one of them). All done with yum and rpm on a live system.
This has been my daily work system for about 15 years, no reason to scratch it.
it probably contains no traces of the initial setup (apart from /root/install.log),
it evolved without any discontinuity.
Last time I ran anaconda for upgrading was in F14 (according to /root/upgrade.log);
after that it has always been yum/dnf.
Regards.
--
Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it
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