Re: Upgrading F14->F15 on x64 - system freezes during cleanup

[Max Pyziur <pyz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 19 May 2012, Joe Zeff wrote:

> On 05/19/2012 01:44 PM, Max Pyziur wrote:
> >  My current dilemma is trying to rescue the upgrade on this machine. Can
> >  you help with that?
>
> I had an "upgrade" from F14 to F16 hang.  Can you boot into the upgrade 
> kernel again and let it try again?  You'll probably have to do lots and lots 
> of cleanup afterwards (I sure did!) but it may get you past this stage.

I can't boot into any sort of installed kernel.

I can use the rescue mode of the Installation/Upgrade CD.

I get three choices; when I run the fakd diagnostic this is the output:
Selecting fakd  Run diagnostic
Running diagnostic
Starting the Threads
Do the work!
[LOCAL] INFO: You are running the firsaidkit as root. (Task interpreter)
[LOCAL] INFO: Plugin information... (Plugin System)
[LOCAL] INFO: name:Grub , version:0.0.1 , author: Joel Andres Granados 
(Plugin System)
[LOCAL] INFO: Provided flows : set(['diagnose', 'fix']) (Plugin System)
[LOCAL] INFO:  Using diagnose flow (Plugin System)
[LOCAL] INFO:  depends on: root, filesystem (Plugin System)
[LOCAL] INFO:  Initializing the search for all the grub related elements. 
(Grub)
[LOCAL] INFO: Searching for grub related files in the system storage 
devices. (Grub)
[LOCAL] INFO: An error has ocurred while searching for grubs elements. 
Error: list index out of range (Grub)
[LOCAL] INFO: Running step prepapre in plugin grub ... (Plugin System)
[LOCAL] INFO: prepare is current step and 
pyfirstaidkit.returns.ReturnFailure is result of that step (Plugin System)
[LOCAL] INFO:  Running step clean in plugin grub ... (Plugin System)
[LOCAL] INFO: clean is current step and pyfirsaidkit.returns.ReturnSuccess 
is result of that step. Plugin System
Waiting for the Threads
Done.
Press enter to continue


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When I select the shell environment, I can do
chroot /mnt/sysimage

> From there I can see my old partions and move around.

I rebuilt the /var/lib/rpm data (rm -f __db.*; rpm -vv --rebuilddb).

I think that my best bet is to try and continue via yum.

I've done this once or twice before a long time ago.

I vaguely recall that this begins with download the Fedora 15 Release rpm. 
However, I don't see any clear instructions on ow to do so in the Wiki.

Much thanks.

Max
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