Bug 254441
| Summary: | Upgrade of FC5 crashes in depsolving | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Pierre Sarrazin <sarrazip> | ||||
| Component: | yum | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 7 | CC: | james.antill, pmatilai, tim.lauridsen | ||||
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| Hardware: | athlon | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2007-08-28 14:14:36 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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Created attachment 172621 [details]
Anaconda crash state, saved to a floppy
The message you're seeing about no volume groups found is not an error, just informational. The real error message is in the beginning of your exception file. Did you run media check on the DVD? Otherwise, this looks like either a yum problem or an interaction problem between anaconda and yum. I ran a media check on the DVD and it passed. This is caused by some old packages which don't have header fields yum is expecting. If you remove helptool, you should get past it (assuming you don't have other similar packages). This has been fixed in yum for the next release Is there a way to use the rpm command to get a complete list of packages that have the same characteristics as helptool? Having found no way to determine a complete list of such packages, I used rpm -qi --all to detect all packages installed before 2001, and uninstalled most of them. The upgrade went well after that, at least concerning the RPM upgrades. |
Description of problem: I am trying to upgrade a Fedora Core 5 system to Fedora 7 using the DVD. At first, the installer complained about the absence of labels on the devices in my /etc/fstab ("Devices in /etc/fstab should be specified by label, not by device name"). I used the e2label to assign labels to my filesystem partitions and then edited fstab to reflect the changes. The fstab file thus went from this: /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda3 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda5 /var ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 to this: LABEL=slash / ext3 defaults 1 1 #/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0 LABEL=usr /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=var /var ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=home /home ext3 defaults 1 2 (I commented out the swap space because I did not know what to do about that, and the swap space seemed unimportant, especially since my PC has 1024 megs of RAM.) On the next try with the F7 installer, it progressed to the boot loader installation step. It said that my only option was to install a new one, which I did not mind (there is only FC5 on this PC). Then the installer crashed. I saved the state to a floppy, which I am attaching to this report. Here are the last several lines: --------------------------------------------------------- 16:07:18 ERROR : failed to unlink /var/lib/rpm/__db.000 16:07:18 ERROR : failed to unlink /var/lib/rpm/__db.001 16:07:18 ERROR : failed to unlink /var/lib/rpm/__db.002 16:07:18 ERROR : failed to unlink /var/lib/rpm/__db.003 16:07:18 CRITICAL: No Repositories Available to Set Up 16:07:18 INFO : switching from CD [1] to 1 for 16:07:49 INFO : moving (1) to step postselection 16:07:49 INFO : selected kernel package for kernel 16:07:50 WARNING : No package matched to remove /tmp/lvmout: Finding all volume groups No volume groups found --------------------------------------------------------- My system was freshly installed as Red Hat 5.1 in 1998 and I have upgraded it ever since, mainly because it is a learning experience in itself. The system seems to have sidestepped that whole volume group business somehow... I am looking for instructions on how to create volume groups on my system, in order to satisfy Anaconda. I strongly prefer to avoid a fresh install so as not to spoil that streak I've got going on... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Ananonda from "Core 7 x86 Install" DVD bought from CheapBytes. How reproducible: Only tried once. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Choose upgrade 2. Have new boot loader configured Additional info: Fedora Core 5 system has been upgraded periodically through yum. mount command displays this: ------------------------------------------------------ /dev/hda1 on / type ext3 (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) none on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw) /dev/hda3 on /usr type ext3 (rw) /dev/hda5 on /var type ext3 (rw) /dev/hda6 on /home type ext3 (rw) none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw) automount(pid2117) on /net type autofs (rw,fd=4,pgrp=2117,minproto=2,maxproto=4)nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw) ------------------------------------------------------ Current kernel is 2.6.20-1.2320.fc5. The PC has a single 60 GB IDE hard disk.