Fedora 8-> 9 Upgrade Prob - Duplicate UUID

[willyb1946]

Hi guys.

I am attempting to upgrade Fedora 8 to 9 using the DVD install disk, but I have run into a problem right from the start. The upgrade process finds my current Fedora 8 installation and asks if I want to upgrade it, but after I reply Yes, it pops up a window saying I have two devices with the same UUID=89C9589FC4162F5, and that I should fix this and retry the upgrade.

I should explain I have a quadruple boot system on two internal drives. Win XP, Win Vista, and Ubuntu Linux are on the primary sda drive. My Windows data partition and Fedora Linux is on the secondary sdb drive.

I booted into Fedora 8 and checked my devices list with 'blkid' and sure enough I do have two partitions with the above UUID. The output is as follows:

/dev/sda1: UUID="217ea527-3b6e-4e41-acef-7cf5b2f43cc3" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda2: TYPE="ntfs" UUID="89C9589FC4162F5" LABEL="Win_Vista"
/dev/sda3: TYPE="ntfs" UUID="89C9589FC4162F5" LABEL="WIN _XP"
/dev/sda5: UUID="6a72ba5f-dc14-4365-89c2-e503984689b1" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda6: TYPE="swap" UUID="4a7a9536-7cb5-460b-8c89-43a5fbebe30d"

/dev/sdb5: LABEL="Win_Data" UUID="141A-1EDA" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/sdb6: LABEL="/boot1" UUID="61dfe5cd-79ea-43b4-931f-c3fa8be7b5f3" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdb7: TYPE="swap" UUID="0d2eb8f3-a054-4157-8539-361f998e1fa5"
/dev/sdb8: LABEL="/1" UUID="d672cd2c-6626-4beb-b97f-f81f3d4aef7e" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
dev/sdb9: LABEL="/data1" UUID="f25cd410-3593-4c68-8183-9d868eef54fb" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"

As you can see, the two with the same UUID are the two ntfs Windows systems partitions which have nothing to do with the Fedora install, so why should the upgrade process care?

I cannot change the UUID on either of these partitions using a linux command like tune2fs since they are not linux partitions, and as far as I can determine, there are no Windows utilities that would do the same thing.

Does anyone have any idea how I can get around this problem to make the upgrade process happy?

[willyb1946]

I have some clarification on the message which comes up during the upgrade process. The specific message is as follows:

Duplicate Labels

Multiple devices on your system are labelled 89C9589FC4162F5. Labels across devices must be unique for your system to function properly.

Please fix this problem and restart the installation process.

As you can see from the blkid output from my previous post, the name referred to in the error message is the UUID of the offending partitions, NOT the label. The actual labels are indeed unique as requested (Win_XP and Win_Vista), so I don't see what the problem is. Is this a bug in the installer? In any case, can anyone see a way to get past the problem short of the drastic step of deleting one of the partitions?

[willyb1946]

I take it by the overwhelming response to my thread there is no straightforward solution to this. However, I finally got past the problem using the brute force approach. I am documenting it here in case somebody else runs into the same problem in a multi-boot situation. The steps I took are as follows:

- boot into my Win XP partition and take a current image copy of my Win Vista partition using Acronis True Image.
- delete my Win Vista partition from Win XP using Acronis Disk Director
- boot into my Fedora 9 install DVD and run the upgrade. The anaconda updater is now happy since there is now only one ntfs partition with the offending uuid. The upgrade ran with no probs
- boot back into Win XP and restore my Win Vista partition from backup.

As far as I am concerned, this prob is a bug in the anaconda updater since this situation should not result in an abort. I ran the F7->F8 upgrade earlier with no prob at all even though I had the same configuration.

[SideshowMel]

I'm having this same problem. My blkid is a bit different,:

/dev/sr0: LABEL="Fedora 9 i386 DVD" TYPE="iso9660" 
/dev/sda5: LABEL="MEDIADIRECT" UUID="07D7-060D" TYPE="vfat" 
/dev/sda7: LABEL="/home" UUID="72b56fe6-fa1a-462c-876f-8abd9c6c6800" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" 
/dev/sda6: TYPE="swap" UUID="f153cbba-b376-4836-84f2-2cfccc55f848" 
/dev/sda4: LABEL="/" UUID="65ba2d5a-e960-4cb7-b9e4-25027ed13c90" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" 
/dev/sda2: UUID="B4BAE252BAE21122" TYPE="ntfs" 
/dev/sda1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL="DellUtility" UUID="07D7-060D" TYPE="vfat"

and it looks to be a result of the Dell MediaDirect. I don't even use it, so I think I'm just going to blow away those partitions and reclaim the extra 2 GB it's using. Thanks for the info, everyone!