[Users] Fedora upgrading from 3.1 to 3.2

[Alex Lourie]

On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Karli Sjöberg <Karli.Sjoberg at slu.se> 
wrote:
> mån 2013-06-24 klockan 12:35 +0003 skrev Alex Lourie: 
>> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Karli Sjöberg 
>> <Karli.Sjoberg at slu.se> 
>> wrote:
>> > mån 2013-06-24 klockan 10:54 +0003 skrev Alex Lourie: 
>> >> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Karli Sjöberg 
>> >> <Karli.Sjoberg at slu.se> 
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > sön 2013-06-23 klockan 09:38 +0003 skrev Alex Lourie: Hi Karli
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> I've written up all we know at [1], please try to follow it 
>> (if 
>> >> you 
>> >> >> haven't yet) and let us know how it goes. If anything goes 
>> wrong, 
>> >> we 
>> >> >> will look for the ways to resolve it.
>> >> >> 
>> >> >  
>> >> > Hi Alex!
>> >> > 
>> >> > Awesome job, I´m going to test this right away and let you 
>> know 
>> >> how 
>> >> > it goes. Wish me luck;)
>> >> > 
>> >> 
>> >> Good luck! May the force be with you.
>> >> 
>> >  
>> > No no, the source Alex, the source:)
>> > 
>> > /K
>> > 
>> 
>> Sure, that one too.
>> 
>> 

Hi Karli

> 
> Well, it wasn´t with me for long, I have hit BZ 911939 and 901786, 
> where fedup fails to find my LVM volumes. In the dracut shell (to 
> where it gets dropped), I have good output from blkid and lvm 
> pvs|vgs|lvs but no nodes created in /dev/mapper and so the system 
> cannot boot and upgrade fails. Do you have any suggestions there that 
> might help? In the mean time, I´ll try upgrading using 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum instead, see 
> if that gives better success.
> 

Sorry to hear that. Different people have experienced multiple problems 
upgrading lvm-based F17 systems to F18. I don't think that there's a 
magic solution that would just work, each case is usually solved on its 
own.

Let us know how you progress with upgrading with yum.

Alex.

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