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

[Luca Olivetti]

Al 24/03/13 13:08, En/na Colin Guthrie ha escrit:

>>
>> 0) In the "Mageia 3 Upgrade Preparation"  NetworkManager stopped
>> working, in its place the network applet was used (after the upgrade
>> both worked).
> 
> 
> Yeah, this is due to various folders disappearing... I guess I should
> probably do something clever in that package. Perhaps I could look at
> the folders in /var/run and their respective owners etc., then write a
> file in /etc/tmpfiles.d with them detailed.
> 
> Then when the package is removed again later (automatically as part of
> the upgrade) this file would be removed. This should mask most of the
> errors. It's not fool proof but it'll probably be enough to avoid
> problems in this case. Will add to my TODO :)

Maybe it's just enough to put it in the wiki, so that one knows what to
expect.

>> Eventually I had to kill dbus-send to go on with the upgrade
> 
> I guess I'll have to find a way to time this out... perhaps adding
> --reply-timeout would work. It would be nice if your VM was in a state
> to be able to test if this has any effect?

Sure, I have a snapshot before the update just for that (i.e., I want to
be absolutely sure that the upgrade to the final mageia 3 works smoothly
before even attempting to upgrade the real machine). The only problem is
that the update takes roughly 3 hours.
Ping me when you want me to test again.

>> 8) I had some problem rebooting (I was using a konsole in kde), the kde
>> menu bar didn't work, trying to do an acpi shutdown didn't work, text
>> console didn't work. Eventually I just pulled the virtual plug.
> 
> Yeah one of the many problems related to online updates really :) the
> "reboot" command should work, but.... :)

The problem is I already closed the working konsole (silly me) and at
that point I couldn't do anything but pull the plug

> 
>> 9) plymouthd complained but I hadn't time to write down the message, it
>> eventually booted fine (but with no graphical menu, probably because the
>> initrd was generated running the "Mageia 3 Upgrade Preparation" entry).
> 
> It shouldn't really matter too much to be honest. The upgrade prep
> option should be almost identical to a regular boot other than an
> additional check will be done on each boot thereafter. But as
> rpm-mageia-setup package is removed on upgrade and with it the menu
> entry, it shouldn't get in the way too much.

I performed the update under the "Mageia 3 Upgrade Preparation" and,
since that had no graphical boot, the resulting new kernel also has no
graphical boot. To restore it I had to manually run dracut once booted
in mageia 3.
Maybe I should have performed the update rebooting into the regular
mageia 2? The wiki isn't clear about it.

Bye
-- 
Luca