Fedup aborts during upgrade from FC20 to FC21

terry-duell · 01-15-2015, 03:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by terry-duell

...because it will take about 5 hours to regenerate it!

I'm talking about /var/cache/system-upgrade, which was the cache my question was referring to.
I'll have a look at cleaning up /var/cache/yum/x86_64 after removing my local packages and see how that goes.

Cheers,
Terry

terry-duell · 01-15-2015, 06:13 PM

OK, removed locally built orphan packages, cleaned cache, removed dropbox.repo and virtualbox.repo from /etc/yum.repos.d, and had another try, but it exits before completion.
There are no error messages or anything else that looks suspicious in /var/log/fedup.log.
Here is the --verbose output from the command line...

Code:

[terry@localhost ~]$ sudo fedup --network 21 --product=workstation --debuglog /var/log/fedup.log --nogpgcheck --verbose --reboot
[sudo] password for terry: 
fedup INFO: /bin/fedup 0.9.0 starting at Fri Jan 16 11:01:01 2015
setting up repos...
fedup.yum INFO: UpgradeDownloader(version=21,cachedir=/var/cache/system-upgrade)
fedup.yum INFO: checking repos
fedup.yum INFO: enabled plugins: ['blacklist', 'whiteout', 'fastestmirror', 'langpacks']
fedup.yum INFO: repo adobe-linux-x86_64 seems OK
fedup.yum INFO: repo default-installrepo seems OK
fedup.yum INFO: repo fedora seems OK
fedup.yum INFO: repo fedora-panorama seems OK
fedup.yum INFO: repo rpmfusion-free seems OK
fedup.yum INFO: repo rpmfusion-free-updates seems OK
fedup.yum INFO: repo rpmfusion-nonfree seems OK
fedup.yum INFO: repo rpmfusion-nonfree-updates seems OK
fedup.yum INFO: repo updates seems OK
getting boot images...
fedup.cli INFO: download None
.treeinfo                                                                                                                   | 1.2 kB  00:00:00     
fedup.yum INFO: downloading images/pxeboot/vmlinuz to /boot/vmlinuz-fedup
fedup.yum INFO: downloading images/pxeboot/upgrade.img to /var/cache/system-upgrade/initramfs-fedup.img
setting up update...
fedup.yum INFO: looking for updates
fedup.yum INFO: adding '@^workstation-product-environment' to upgrade
Warning: Group core does not have any packages to install.
Warning: Group base-x does not have any packages to install.
Warning: Group guest-desktop-agents does not have any packages to install.
Warning: Group hardware-support does not have any packages to install.
fedup.yum INFO: added 30 items for @^workstation-product-environment: adobe-source-han-sans-twhk-fonts paktype-naskh-basic-fonts lohit-gurmukhi-fonts naver-nanum-gothic-fonts adobe-source-han-sans-cn-fonts lohit-odia-fonts gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-bad-free gstreamer-plugins-espeak hplip hpijs gnome-user-share devassistant fedora-release-workstation firewalld-config-workstation abrt-cli libsane-hpaio gvfs-afp gnome-software gnome-session-wayland-session NetworkManager-adsl gnome-shell-extension-background-logo PackageKit-cached-metadata dnf-plugins-core fedora-productimg-workstation gnome-classic-session scl-utils NetworkManager-wwan NetworkManager-wifi NetworkManager-bluetooth
finding updates 100% [============================================================================================================================]
fedup.yum INFO: buildTransaction returned 2
fedup.yum INFO:     Success - deps resolved
fedup.yum INFO: checking for unneeded rpms in cache
verify local files 100% [=========================================================================================================================]
fedup.yum INFO: beginning package download...
fedup INFO: system does not have a product
fedup INFO: product is in upgrade set: [<YumAvailablePackageSqlite : fedora-release-server-21-2.noarch (0x5c07b90)>, <YumAvailablePackageSqlite : fedora-release-workstation-21-2.noarch (0x5c072d0)>, <YumAvailablePackageSqlite : fedora-release-cloud-21-2.noarch (0x5c07310)>, <YumAvailablePackageSqlite : fedora-release-nonproduct-21-2.noarch (0x5c07850)>, <YumAvailablePackageSqlite : fedora-release-server-21-2.noarch (0x5c07b10)>, <YumAvailablePackageSqlite : fedora-release-workstation-21-2.noarch (0x5c07e10)>, <YumAvailablePackageSqlite : generic-release-cloud-21-7.noarch (0x5c07610)>, <YumAvailablePackageSqlite : generic-release-nonproduct-21-7.noarch (0x5c07990)>, <YumAvailablePackageSqlite : generic-release-server-21-7.noarch (0x5c81950)>, <YumAvailablePackageSqlite : generic-release-workstation-21-7.noarch (0x5c817d0)>]
testing upgrade transaction
fedup.rpm INFO: opening pipe
rpm transaction 44% [=======================================================                                                                      ]
[terry@localhost ~]$

Blowed if I know why it doesn't do what it's supposed to.
Is there anything in the above that gives anyone a clue?

Cheers,
Terry

terry-duell · 01-17-2015, 12:00 AM

I have had to give up on this, it has used up too much time with no real prospect of a breakthrough.
Fedup would be wonderful, if it worked as it is supposed to. Clearly it works for some, and I wish I had their luck...but also clearly it doesn't work for all.
I have now done a clean install, and it is not a process I relish.
There is a lot of things to take care of to be able to bring the new system up to the spec of the old, and I would reckon this would certainly put an 'ordinary' user off using linux.
Let's hope that Fedup is much more robust by the time Fedora 22 comes along.

Cheers,
Terry

GaWdLy · 01-17-2015, 12:29 AM

Terry, I wonder if this is really an issue with low bandwidth. It takes you 5 hours to generate what takes most of us 20-30 minutes. I've never had a fedup just *stop*.

terry-duell · 01-17-2015, 03:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GaWdLy

Terry, I wonder if this is really an issue with low bandwidth. It takes you 5 hours to generate what takes most of us 20-30 minutes. I've never had a fedup just *stop*.

I doubt bandwidth has anything to do with it, but I may be wrong.
The update all downloaded OK...or I think it did, the update cache was about 4GB.
My bandwidth isn't an issue for all the other upgrades made during the life of FC20, or when getting the FC21 iso file...I never have failures,it just takes a while with basic ADSL speed.
ADSL speed isn't that uncommon.

Cheers,
Terry

unSpawn · 01-17-2015, 05:45 AM

I've never had Fedup stall on me either. Unless you provided that nfo before: are you running any RAID, disk encryption or need exotic or proprietary (video?) device drivers? Also, when the transaction stalls please open a terminal window, become root and see if this gets us more nfo? (Note if fedup runs from inside initramfs your system is mounted at /sysroot so "/tmp" becomes "/sysroot/tmp".):

Code:

yum history
yum updateinfo list updates
yum check dependencies
yum check duplicates
yum check obsoletes
dmesg
lsof -Pwln -a +D/tmp -a +D/root -a +D/var

*Note the latter command (replace with 'ls -altr /tmp /root /var/log' if you don't have 'lsof') may be a "too greedy match" but that's because I don't know what open log file to ask for right now...

terry-duell · 01-17-2015, 03:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by unSpawn

I've never had Fedup stall on me either. Unless you provided that nfo before: are you running any RAID, disk encryption or need exotic or proprietary (video?) device drivers? Also, when the transaction stalls please open a terminal window, become root and see if this gets us more nfo?

Sorry, I've moved on...as I said I've now done a clean install and running FC21.
I wouldn't say it stalled, it got part way through testing the upgrade transaction and exited. That was repeatable, always exited at about 44% into the process.
To answer your questions, no RAID, no disk encryption, no exotic device drivers, video card is Nvidia and I use the Fedora supplied driver (neuveau?).

Cheers,
Terry

unSpawn · 01-17-2015, 05:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by terry-duell

Sorry, I've moved on...as I said I've now done a clean install and running FC21.

Ah, OK. Missed that. Well at least you've got a working system (or so I'd hope).