Upgrading from F16 to F17 fails
 

It fails after it displays that the installed fedora 16 will be
upgraded, and I click next.
I filed the bug with redhat bugzilla but when I logged in to my bugzilla
accout

I do not see the bug listed in "My Bugs" list.

I ran the self check for the DVD and it passed. I
checked the sha256 sum of the iso downloaded
and it checked out just fine with the contents of
the Fedora-17-i386-CHECKSUM file.

The failure to upgrade is repeatable in exactly the same way.

It seems that when I click Next to proceed with the upgrade,
it crashes and dumps the stack. The stack shows that it was
trying to unmount the root dir of the currently installed fc16,
and it failed to do that, and bailed out.

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Upgrading from F16 to F17 fails
 

On 09/08/2012 11:36 AM, Alan Cox wrote:

The Fedora DVD upgrade is not very good to put it politely and gets
steadily worse release by release. The installer is pretty robust, but
the update stuff not so.

A better bet is to make a backup and then carefully read the instructions
on updating via yum. Follow all the steps listed in order. 16 to 17 is
the most complicated one of the lot because of the changes to the file
system layout.

The yum update isn't "supported" but works far better than the DVD one.
Given the state of the updater it's not clear what "supported" means in
that context anyway 8(

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum

Alan


Thank you Alan.
I will wait for fc18 in the hopes it will do a better job of upgrading
from 16 to 18.
The yum route, due to the time it takes to download everything, and the
tenuous
nature of the electric service and the network provider's "instability",
seems to

cause me other issues.

Cheers,

JD
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Upgrading from F16 to F17 fails
 

On 09/08/2012 11:46 AM, Andy Blanchard wrote:
On 8 September 2012 18:38, Heinz Diehl <htd@fritha.org
<mailto:htd@fritha.org>> wrote:



Upgrading F16 to F17 from DVD is one f*cking mess. Seriously.
Backup your data and do a fresh install. It will save you a lot of
time and hairpull.


Better yet, when you do the re-install set up some disk partitions so
you can segregate the binaries from the data. A separate /usr/ is a
bit problematic at the moment, but it's worthwhile creating dedicated
partitions for /home/ and /var/ - especially if you have website data,
etc. in the case of the latter.


Once you've done that, you can nuke all the other partitions and
re-install from scratch every time with the only pain being that you
need to restore your configs. Unless there are major version changes
between release, that's usually just a case of restoring your old
config file and restarting the daemon, although occasionally you are
better starting over from scratch.


Backing up everything before the re-install is still advisable though.

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/The only person to have all his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe/



Currently, on my system, the only external drive partitions used to contain
parts of fedora are /var and /usr/src . /var partition is a mount point,
but /usr/src is a symlink within /usr (on root) pointing to the src dir
in some

external partition.

I wonder about /etc, because that's where so much conf is kept.
But it is small enough to simply back it up to an external partition.
The pain is in remembering all the apps for which conf files were
modified. To address that, inserting a comment like
# this is a modified conf file

into the conf file helps one to search for all conf files that were
customized, and bring them back.
Problem arises when new config vars are introduced in the newer
release of the app, in which case one must integrate those as well.

It just seems there is no automagical way to do upgrades :)


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Upgrading from F16 to F17 fails
 

The Fedora DVD upgrade is not very good to put it politely and gets
steadily worse release by release. The installer is pretty robust, but
the update stuff not so.

A better bet is to make a backup and then carefully read the instructions
on updating via yum. Follow all the steps listed in order. 16 to 17 is
the most complicated one of the lot because of the changes to the file
system layout.

The yum update isn't "supported" but works far better than the DVD one.
Given the state of the updater it's not clear what "supported" means in
that context anyway 8(

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum

Alan
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Upgrading from F16 to F17 fails
 

On 08.09.2012, JD wrote:

> It fails after it displays that the installed fedora 16 will be upgraded,
> and I click next.
[....]

Upgrading F16 to F17 from DVD is one f*cking mess. Seriously.
Backup your data and do a fresh install. It will save you a lot of
time and hairpull.

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Upgrading from F16 to F17 fails
 

Am 08.09.2012 19:38, schrieb Heinz Diehl:
> On 08.09.2012, JD wrote:
>
>> It fails after it displays that the installed fedora 16 will be upgraded,
>> and I click next.
> [....]
>
> Upgrading F16 to F17 from DVD is one f*cking mess. Seriously.
> Backup your data and do a fresh install. It will save you a lot of
> time and hairpull.

the yum upgrade as described works perfectly

not all users have plain setups where you can easily
do a fresh install, this works not well if you have
customiized many configurations of many services

and that is why a distribution with a new release
each month should be much carefuller in context of
upgrades than fedora does

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Upgrading from F16 to F17 fails
 

On 08.09.2012, Reindl Harald wrote:

> not all users have plain setups where you can easily
> do a fresh install, this works not well if you have
> customiized many configurations of many services

> and that is why a distribution with a new release
> each month should be much carefuller in context of
> upgrades than fedora does

In this case, you maybe should consider using a rolling distribution
as e.g. Arch..




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Upgrading from F16 to F17 fails
 

On 8 September 2012 18:38, Heinz Diehl <htd@fritha.org> wrote:




Upgrading F16 to F17 from DVD is one f*cking mess. Seriously.

Backup your data and do a fresh install. It will save you a lot of

time and hairpull.

Better yet, when you do the re-install set up some disk partitions so you can segregate the binaries from the data.* A separate /usr/ is a bit problematic at the moment, but it's worthwhile creating dedicated partitions for /home/ and /var/ - especially if you have website data, etc. in the case of the latter.


Once you've done that, you can nuke all the other partitions and re-install from scratch every time with the only pain being that you need to restore your configs.* Unless there are major version changes between release, that's usually just a case of restoring your old config file and restarting the daemon, although occasionally you are better starting over from scratch.


Backing up everything before the re-install is still advisable though.
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Upgrading from F16 to F17 fails
 

Am 08.09.2012 19:46, schrieb Heinz Diehl:
> On 08.09.2012, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
>> not all users have plain setups where you can easily
>> do a fresh install, this works not well if you have
>> customiized many configurations of many services
>
>> and that is why a distribution with a new release
>> each month should be much carefuller in context of
>> upgrades than fedora does
>
> In this case, you maybe should consider using a rolling distribution
> as e.g. Arch..

you do NOT want a rolling release in production
really

fedora N-1 is fine in production

the one and only weakness of Fedora is carelessly
about upgrades in many cases and NO everytime if
things are not running perfectly switch the distribution
is plain stupid becasue you end in most of your
life swichting your OS

no you are not done with a switch

this maybe OK for the 08/15 user but not for power users
tuning and optimizing their configurations exactly for
their needs and if something happens upstream you do
not like you are ending in permenetly wasting all your
time and expierience by hopping to the next

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Upgrading from F16 to F17 fails
 

Am 08.09.2012 00:05, schrieb JD:
> I will wait for fc18 in the hopes it will do a better job of upgrading from 16 to 18

you can NOT expect that a F16->F18 upgrade will do USrMove better

> The yum route, due to the time it takes to download everything

uninstall unused crap to reduce the amount of your setup
"package-cleanup --leaves --all" is your friend to find out
candidates and using it more than once after uninstall packages
will show you new candidates (dependencies which are no longer
needed after the last mremoval)

this way i uinstalled several GIGABYTES on many systems and
all is still running fine

> and the tenuous nature of the electric service

this is no argumentation

there are many really cheap UPS-systems if you are live in a
country with a missing modern infrastrcuture and even in modern
countries it is always a good idea using a UPS

> and the network provider's "instability", seems to
> cause me other issues.

why?

you can stop the upgrade while downloads are running
and continue at any time



"download everything" -> uninstall unused crap to reduce it

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