I have upgraded all but one of my laptops/workstations using https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNF_system_upgrade. I am surprised how stable the system works for me. Good job!
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Fedora 24 Beta Looks Nice, But Will They Ever Stop Mucking Up Anaconda?
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Originally posted by linuxjacques View Post"On some setups, installing Fedora over existing firmware or software RAID can cause anaconda to crash. The crash itself messes the disks a little and renders the RAID unusable."
The common bug makes it sound like it will destroy a RAID array that wasn't already selected for replacement, which is not the case. (There's no way at all we'd have let that out the door!)
Regarding the common bugs page, that's a little out of date because the person who usually maintains it is on vacation this week (unfortunate timing due to last week's schedule slip).
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Originally posted by droidhacker View PostSounds like you work for RH?
One thing that I would strongly suggest for anaconda, if you fixed THIS, it would really help everyone overlook whatever bugs there are.... don't bail out on the first sign of error!!!! The most frustrating part of the new anaconda is that whenever ANY stupid thing goes wrong, it completely gives up and wants a reboot.
- dual boot install
- home reuse
- existing data volumes
- flash drives with data connected during installation
-etc.
So Anaconda tries very hard to avoid any unintended data loss - this includes aborting due to any storage related errors and situations the storage code can't safely handle, as in this case.
Originally posted by droidhacker View PostEven restarting just anaconda would be an improvement, or preferably, go back a step when something bad happens.
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Originally posted by MartinK View PostWell, this is kinda on purpose - many installations run on systems with existing user data:
- dual boot install
- home reuse
- existing data volumes
- flash drives with data connected during installation
-etc.
So Anaconda tries very hard to avoid any unintended data loss - this includes aborting due to any storage related errors and situations the storage code can't safely handle, as in this case.
I don't think restarting would help much - in most cases (eq. not a race condition) you would just get the same crash over and over again.
It is frustrating as hell trying to install Fedora.
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Will Fedora / Red Hat developers ever stop constantly changing Anaconda? I don't recall any other distribution installer where I've come across so many fatal install problems with it over the years, it seems to routinely be one of the common causes for having to delay Fedora releases, etc.
I love Fedora because it's only place you can get a good version of Gnome. But good god is installing it the most frustrating thing on Earth, especially if you have a HBA.Last edited by kaczu; 11 May 2016, 12:56 AM.
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a few releases ago I was trying to install it on a machine which had been already set up with mirrored drives, and I wanted it to simply reformat the old root and boot partitions but not the /home (although I'd backed it up).
it absolutely refused to do that, and even when I tried deleting the mirrors manually to let anaconda create them, I got stuck. I raised a bug report but didn't get very far. In the end I had to do a very hacky work-round which was not something I'd expect anyone fairly new to Linux to achieve.
once working, I found Fedora to be quite good, but there's no way I could recommend it to anyone who was new to Linux unless they had someone to help them install it.
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that said, I recently needed to reinstall my laptop running openSuse. although I told it not to, their installer totally trashed both the hard drives in my computer - the primary 128GB SSD, and the 1TB secondary spinner - it created entirely new partition tables losing everything. Luckily, being my laptop there wasn't anything on it I cared too much about.
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