[Yum] preupgrade stuck

[Gerry Reno]

Seth Vidal wrote:
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> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Gerry Reno wrote:
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>> I ran preupgrade on a box with some raid arrays and volume groups. 
>> Everything was working fine through the preupgrade portion but after 
>> I rebooted anaconda cannot find the root of the existing installation 
>> and the whole preupgrade is stalled (I opened a bug on this). I can 
>> however boot into rescue mode and see the system and all the 
>> preupgrade packages are there. How can I manually finish this 
>> preupgrade with just 'yum' from the rescue mode?
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> you cannot. The point of preupgrade is that you're getting the pkgs 
> you need for anaconda to perform the actual upgrade.
>
> The advantage anaconda has vs yum for doing an upgrade is that 
> anaconda is not having to do the upgrade on a running system.
>
> -sv
Yes, anaconda puts the system into about the same as "rescue mode" and 
then performs the operations there. But that is why I thought that the 
upgrade could be completed from rescue mode because it is very similar 
if not exactly similar to how anaconda handles the upgrade.

Regards,
Gerry