Bug 12260

Summary:	Install fails when upgrading with only the DVD as medium (3->4beta2)
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Marja Van Waes <marja11>
Component:	Release (media or process)	Assignee:	Anne Nicolas <ennael1>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	davidwhodgins, eeeemail, sysadmin-bugs
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	4beta2
Source RPM:	drakx-installer-stage2	CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	reportbug.xz of the Fails with Online Media Fails with only DVD

Description Marja Van Waes 2014-01-09 22:57:08 CET

Created attachment 4750 [details]
reportbug.xz of the

I tried to upgrade a Mageia 3 partition with the 64bits 4beta2 DVD

At first, I used only the DVD as medium, but that didn't work, install failed with a lot of messages like

devel(libuuid(64bit)) is needed by (installed) lib64sm-devel-1.2.1-4.mga3.x86_64
qt4-devel is needed by (installed) lib64qt-mobility-devel-1.2.0-10.mga3.x86_64
qt4-devel is needed by (installed) lib64qtwebkit2.2-devel-2.3.2-1.1.mga3.x86_64
qt4-devel >= 4:4.8.0 is needed by (installed) kdelibs4-devel-2:4.10.5-1.1.mga3.x86_64
pkgconfig(QtCore) is needed by (installed) lib64qtwebkit2.2-devel-2.3.2-1.1.mga3.x86_64
pkgconfig(QtGui) is needed by (installed) lib64qtwebkit2.2-devel-2.3.2-1.1.mga3.x86_64
pkgconfig(QtNetwork) is needed by (installed) lib64qtwebkit2.2-devel-2.3.2-1.1.mga3.x86_64

I was returned to the "add supplemental media" screen and chose one or two ftp servers, install failed again and I tried again, again fail, again tried, then succeeded (the changelog ml didn't show that much activity over the last day, so I'm surprised that  I got the "Installation failed" message so often)

There is good news, too: after reboot I did *not* see bug 11827

Marja Van Waes 2014-01-09 22:57:32 CET

Whiteboard: (none) => 4beta2

Comment 1 Thierry Vignaud 2014-01-14 01:29:33 CET

Either a packaging bug or there's not enough packages on the DVD.
Does it work better if you add the network media?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: (none) => sysadmin-bugs
Component: Installer => Release (media or process)
Assignee: thierry.vignaud => ennael1

Comment 2 Marja Van Waes 2014-01-14 08:54:12 CET

Created attachment 4776 [details]
Fails with Online Media

(In reply to Thierry Vignaud from comment #1)
> Either a packaging bug or there's not enough packages on the DVD.

I'm sure I had packages installed in Mageia 3 that were not on the DVD, but I've  been told that install shouldn't fail on that.

> Does it work better if you add the network media?

I did *not* first downgrade the already installed packages to Mga3.
It did fail again three times (one more than I thought before) and then succeeded on the 4rth try. 

Attaching the messages about the failed transactions /after/ network media were added.

Comment 3 Marja Van Waes 2014-01-14 08:56:58 CET

Created attachment 4777 [details]
Fails with only DVD

now attaching the failed transactions at first try, when only the DVD was used

Comment 4 Marja Van Waes 2014-01-14 09:01:13 CET

(In reply to Thierry Vignaud from comment #1)

> Does it work better if you add the network media?

Oops, maybe I misunderstood and you meant: at first try, before having upgraded anything?

If so, then I hope to find time to create a similar Mageia 3, and upgrade from that with network media added.

Please re-add NEEDINFO if this is indeed what you meant

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)

Comment 5 Anne Nicolas 2014-01-14 15:39:21 CET

Tested here with RC iso and all went smoothly without any bug on vbox

Comment 6 Marja Van Waes 2014-01-17 20:09:50 CET

with 10th round 32 bits DVD there is no problem, I upgraded a Mga 3 to which I had deliberately added many packages that aren't on the DVD.

DVD-only upgrade went fine.

I had forgotten this bug was about 64 bits, so I did the wrong test, I'll test with a 64 bits upgrade, too

Comment 7 Marja Van Waes 2014-01-17 20:10:38 CET

and on real hw, again, like when I hit this issue

Comment 8 Marja Van Waes 2014-01-18 14:14:48 CET

64bits upgrade of a default mga 3 KDE + task-edu + bm + dependencies

Everything went fine.

So either this got somehow fixed, or it is only valid when certain devel packages are installed in Mageia 3

I'll close it as old, even if it would still be valid, people who use devel packages won't run away from Mageia if they hit this

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD