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

Mon Dec 17 09:54:37 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and Mika Laitio at 16/12/12 17:00 did gyre and gimble:
+> 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?
+
+Once the conversion has been done once, it doesn't need to run again
+(it's safe enough to do so, but it's a no-op and does nothing)
+
+
+The timeout you possibly saw was waiting for a service to restart or
+similar. Chances are it would have timed out eventually (but that
+timeout may be up to five minutes). It would be interesting to know
+which %postinst failed if you still have that info so I can try
+reproducing the situation and work on a more graceful solution.
+
+Col
+
+
+-- 
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+Colin Guthrie
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