[Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

Sun Dec 16 18:00:14 CET 2012

On 12/16/2012 01:55 PM, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
+> On 16 December 2012 12:38, Mika Laitio <lamikr at pilppa.org> wrote:
+>> Install started fine and offered that I have about 2200 rpm's to update.
+>> During the install some package seemed to hang (I don't remember anymore
+>> which one) and I canceled install with ctrl-c and saw message about
+>> error in postinst section.
+>>
+>> I run urpmi.update again and then "urpmi auto-select" and somehow
+>> ended up to situation where all my network interfaces are down
+> 
+> maybe b/c kernel-firmware was upgraded first and your network card needs
+> a firmware that is not compatible between different kernels
+> 
+>> and about 900 rpm's fail to install as some of their dependencies are
+>> missing.
+>>
+>> I tried to download and copy the missing rpm's with another computer to
+>> usb stick, but usb fails to mount... (I can not see /dev/sdb, etc...
+>> only /dev/sda which is my harddisk)
+> 
+> Strange... Probably related to your network issue.
+> You could run "modprobe usb_storage" (you may also have to load the USB
+> controller modules (see output of "lspcidrake -v"))
+
+Yes, this indeed helped. modprobe usb_serial and then /dev/sdb* showed
+up and I was able to mount manually. May be related to fact that udev
+failed to start.
+
+> Didn't you reboot to a new kernel which you aborted the installation?
+> What if you boot to an older kernel (eg mga2 one)?
+
+Forget to say that I can get to console only from the "mageia 3 safe
+mode" grup option which goes directly to console.
+
+With normal mageia 3 or older mageia 2 kernel options I will eventually
+reach the login screen, but login itself always fails with all desktop
+envs I have and resets itself back to login screen again. (kde4, gnome,
+lxde, openbox, icewm)
+
+Now that I can mount the usb stick and manually copy the missing rpm's
+to harddrive, can I install these 900 rpm packages from this mga3 safe
+mode login, or should I create a new "Mageia 3 upgrade preparation safe
+mode" option to grup which has this rd.convertfs boot option and boot
+there for upgrading the rest of the rpm's from mga2 version to mga3?
+
+Mika
+