Seth Mos wrote:
>
> The installer seems to barf when trying to Upgrade a installation of a
> system where the XFS filesystem is not clean.
> I had to boot the machine another time to recover the filesystem to a clean
> state before I could try to upgrade it.
Hm, we didn't anticipate this scenario. :) FWIW, the same thing
happens under ext2, if it detects that a filesystem was not cleanly
unmounted, the install won't continue.
> It first says that it will to upgrade the linux system on hda6 Anaconda
> then throws me a error that there is no linux system on hda6 (which is the
> root fs).
>
> Although it may be hardware issues, the box is acting funny every now and
> then. It should not produce this error, but recover the fs on mount during
> install, would it?
I'm not sure if mount returns differently based on whether or not it
went through recovery... if so, anaconda may be interpreting this as a
problem. I'd have to look into it... but for now, just run an upgrade
only on clean systems, I guess.
You say it's acting funny, do you mean _after_ the install?
> Just checking if anyone else has seen this behaviour.
> Does anyone know if this also happens when the ext2 fs is dirty or not?
Yep, the installer will ask you to reboot & fix the problem.
-Eric
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