Written on May 30, 2012 at 1:12 pm by

Upgrade Fedora 16 to 17 -using shell

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Fedora 17 is released.
Below is the instruction to upgrade from Fedora 16 to 17 for 32bit & 64bit OS.

Following needs to be done on both 32bit & 64bit systems

rpm --import https://fedoraproject.org/static/1ACA3465.txt
yum update dracut -y
dracut --force --add convertfs

change kernel parameter
vi /etc/grub2.cfg
change rw to ro
add "rd.info rd.convertfs enforcing=0"

Example

#CHANGE
        linux   /vmlinuz-3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64 root=UUID=f3bc2160-d776-4759-b999-171dcfa8c9e8 ro rd.md=0 rd.lvm=0 rd.dm=0  KEYTABLE=us quiet SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 rd.luks=0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 
#TO
        linux   /vmlinuz-3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64 root=UUID=f3bc2160-d776-4759-b999-171dcfa8c9e8 rw rd.md=0 rd.lvm=0 rd.dm=0  KEYTABLE=us quiet SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 rd.luks=0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd.info rd.convertfs enforcing=0

32bit

yum -y update
rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/17/Everything/i386/os/Packages/f/fedora-release-17-1.noarch.rpm
yum upgrade yum* rpm -y #during this step accept public key
yum upgrade -y

64bit

yum -y update
rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/17/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/f/fedora-release-17-1.noarch.rpm
yum upgrade yum* rpm -y #during this step accept public key
yum upgrade -y


For some reason if your rpmdb is corrupted, you need to rebuild using following commands.

rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/__db*
rpm --rebuilddb

UPDATE
After upgrade if you are unable to shutdown with following error.
/shutdown: 33: /shutdown: sh: not found

You need to run command below command, on the second rebooy you’ll be able to shutdown your box successfully.

sudo dracut -f

You may also consider upgrade using preupgrade which is convenient


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