[Users] Fedora upgrading from 3.1 to 3.2

[Moran Goldboim]

On 06/25/2013 02:52 PM, Alex Lourie wrote:
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> 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.

i used same article [1] and had a successful go with it - good luck...

[1] 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum#Fedora_17_-.3E_Fedora_18 


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