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Bug 904112 - NVR is greater in F17 than in F18 causing FedUp not install F18 kernel
Summary: NVR is greater in F17 than in F18 causing FedUp not install F18 kernel
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 18
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 892771 902441 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-01-25 13:36 UTC by Tomáš Hozza
Modified: 2013-10-09 21:39 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2013-03-13 17:23:38 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Tomáš Hozza 2013-01-25 13:36:16 UTC 
Description of problem:
Today I decided to upgrade my Fedora 17 to Fedora 18 using FedUp.
In FedUp upgrade notes there is the following statement:
"Do a full system update and reboot to ensure that any kernel changes are running". So I did a full system update. There was an update for kernel-3.7.3-101.fc17.

After I upgraded Fedora to version 18 I realised I'm still running
the F17 kernel, because kernel-3.7.2-204.fc18 HAS A SMALLER NVR!

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-3.7.3-101.fc17

How reproducible:
Should be always until fixed!

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Upgrade Fedora 17 to Fedora 18 using FedUp (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp#How_Can_I_Upgrade_My_System_with_FedUp.3F)
2. Check installed kernel NVR
  
Actual results:
After upgrade still running kernel-3.7.3-101.fc17

Expected results:
Expected tu be running F18 kernel!

Additional info:

NVR(kernel-3.7.3-101.fc17) > NVR(kernel-3.7.2-204.fc18)
Comment 1 Josh Boyer 2013-01-25 14:15:42 UTC 
Yeah.  This happens.  It isn't urgent.

It will be fixed when https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kernel-3.7.4-204.fc18 is pushed to stable.  Feel free to test and add karma to make it happen faster.

Moving to F18, since there is nothing that can be done in F17 to fix this.
Comment 2 Tomáš Hozza 2013-01-25 14:26:23 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Yeah.  This happens.  It isn't urgent.

Well it shouldn't happen if we want to support upgrade path in Fedora to newer
version. It pretty much messed up my system and it took some time until I 
realised where is the problem.

> Moving to F18, since there is nothing that can be done in F17 to fix this.

Yeah, that's right. Thank you anyway for your response.
Comment 3 Josh Boyer 2013-01-25 14:49:45 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Yeah.  This happens.  It isn't urgent.
> 
> Well it shouldn't happen if we want to support upgrade path in Fedora to
> newer
> version. It pretty much messed up my system and it took some time until I 
> realised where is the problem.

How did it mess your system up?  The kernel versions are almost identical, so this really shouldn't have caused problems.
Comment 4 Tomáš Hozza 2013-01-25 14:52:49 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)
> How did it mess your system up?  The kernel versions are almost identical,
> so this really shouldn't have caused problems.

My system was unable to detect second display connected via DVI. Also the Gnome shell and animations were really slow.
Comment 5 Justin M. Forbes 2013-01-25 16:58:41 UTC 
Interesting since the 3.7.2-204.f18 contains the 3.7.3 patch queue. The only real difference in the kernels at all is that the f18 kernel supports secure boot, and the f17 kernel does not.  Does updating to the 3.7.4 f18 kernel change this for you in any way?
Comment 6 Josh Boyer 2013-01-25 17:10:21 UTC 
It's plausible the initramfs contents were F17 based and somehow caused issues when switching to an F18 userspace.  It's at least as likely as the actual kernels causing differences anyway.
Comment 7 Will Woods 2013-01-25 19:40:18 UTC 
*** Bug 902441 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Justin M. Forbes 2013-03-13 17:23:38 UTC 
Closing this since the NVR should always be greater now that we are using different series for R between releases
Comment 9 Will Woods 2013-10-09 21:39:35 UTC 
*** Bug 892771 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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