Bug 244376

Summary: unhandled exception upon upgrade of Fedora Core 4 to Fedora 7
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Christian SCHLATTER <christian.schlatter>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
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Version: 7CC: djohnson, george, ircole, max.parrott, michal
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Description Christian SCHLATTER 2007-06-15 10:29:47 UTC 
Description of problem:
I want to upgrade my Fedora Core 4 installation to Fedora 7 using the bootable
DVD. After configuration of the boot options, anaconda starts to look for
package dependencies and stops with an unhandled exception.
Comment 1 Christian SCHLATTER 2007-06-15 10:29:47 UTC 
Created attachment 157087 [details]
dump of unhandled exception
Comment 2 David Johnson 2007-07-07 18:34:06 UTC 
Same thing trying to upgrade from Fedora Core 5 to Fedora 7.

Exception logged to floppy: attached
Comment 3 Chris Lumens 2007-07-12 02:20:21 UTC 
*** Bug 247925 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Chris Lumens 2007-07-12 02:21:32 UTC 
*** Bug 247230 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Chris Lumens 2007-07-12 02:22:52 UTC 
*** Bug 246542 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 George Anzinger 2007-07-12 20:24:09 UTC 
I too have this same problem trying to upgrade from fc3 to f7.  All these
reports seem to be tied to kernel.i686.  Since mine stopped in the "resolve
dependencies" area, I assume that is true of all occurrences, given that the
trace back looks almost identical.

A work around would be most welcome.
Comment 7 George Anzinger 2007-07-24 01:34:01 UTC 
I don't know if this work for all of these but, I got the update to work by
using rpm to remove all the kernels save the one I actually was booting.  Do:
rpm -q kernel

then rpm -e kernelxxx where the xxx is the kernel to remove.  Do NOT remove the
one grup is booting (look in the grup.conf file in /boot/grub/ or some such).
Comment 8 David Cantrell 2007-09-11 21:45:53 UTC 
Upgrades are supported from the previous release to the current release, not
from a far back release to the current one.