Bug 444915

Summary: Unable to read group information with preupgrade
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Laszlo Beres <beres.laszlo>
Component: preupgradeAssignee: Seth Vidal <skvidal>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: low    
Version: 9CC: katzj, nhruby, wwoods
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Description Laszlo Beres 2008-05-01 19:29:01 UTC
Description of problem:

After running preupgrade in Fedora 8 and reboot , Anaconda starts the upgrade
process and after a while it drops the message below:

Unable to read group information from repositories. This is a problem with the
generation of your install tree.

Only choices are "Exit installer" and "Retry", the latter doesn't help.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:

Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start preupgrade
2. Reboot
3. Choose Upgrade to Fedora 9
  
Actual results:

Repos infos are not available.

Expected results:

Seamless upgrade.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Laszlo Beres 2008-05-01 19:29:01 UTC
Created attachment 304337 [details]
anaconda.log

Comment 2 Laszlo Beres 2008-05-01 19:29:41 UTC
Created attachment 304338 [details]
syslog

Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2008-05-01 22:51:29 UTC
What version of preupgrade?  It should be pre-downloading the comps file.

Comment 4 Laszlo Beres 2008-05-02 06:04:29 UTC
Actually it does:

[beres@support ~]$ ll /var/cache/yum/anaconda-upgrade/
total 79420
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root        0 2008-05-01 21:29 cachecookie
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1322941 2008-05-01 11:00 comps.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   307879 2008-05-01 11:00 comps.xml.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 53855232 2008-05-01 21:30 filelists.sqlite
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root     4096 2008-05-01 21:55 headers
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     2457 2008-05-01 21:29 mirrorlist.txt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    77824 2008-05-01 21:51 packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25602048 2008-05-01 21:29 primary.sqlite
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     2424 2008-05-01 11:00 repomd.xml


Version is:

preupgrade-0.9.2-1.fc8



Comment 5 Seth Vidal 2008-05-02 13:38:08 UTC
Can you run:
sha1sum /var/cache/yum/anaconda-upgrade/comps*

include that output
and could you also include the contents of:
 /var/cache/yum/anaconda-upgrade/repomd.xml

thanks




Comment 6 nathan r. hruby 2008-05-02 16:49:42 UTC
I had this same problem, as it turns out 0.9.2-1.fc8 tries to grab minstg2.img
to cache in /boot/upgrade.  Minstg2.img  seems to be out of sync with rawhide,
and in fact got removed from preupgrade after 0.9.2 was pushed (according to the
Changelog).

I grabbed this mornings' 0.9.3 and am happily running an update on my laptop
with it as I type this after removing /boot/upgrade and the metadata files (but
not packages directory) from /var/cache/yum/anaconda-upgrade.

Maybe we can whack that file from the mirrors?

HTH,

-n

Comment 7 Will Woods 2008-05-02 17:05:41 UTC
No, it's not out of sync with rawhide. That's.. a different problem.

minstg2 is still used with regular installs in some cases - low-memory installs,
for instance - so we won't be killing it off anytime soon. But it doesn't
properly support preupgrade so we don't use it.

Comment 8 Laszlo Beres 2008-05-02 19:41:57 UTC
Here are the sha1sums' results:

c1e82d2790a406d06421b4e055aa87c0c93f557f  /var/cache/yum/anaconda-upgrade/comps.xml
edeb54a365e6c7b62365bd1c5dea8184c8a7fd41 
/var/cache/yum/anaconda-upgrade/comps.xml.gz

And the content of repomd.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<repomd xmlns="http://linux.duke.edu/metadata/repo">
  <data type="other_db">
    <location href="repodata/other.sqlite.bz2"/>
    <checksum type="sha">2a55957ded096a1375df11ebe966b42ed9c3dc48</checksum>
    <timestamp>1209631269</timestamp>
    <open-checksum
type="sha">e1f9f8332823abc558f501a4cdb85da0f62fe3d6</open-checksum>
    <database_version>10</database_version>
  </data>
  <data type="other">
    <checksum type="sha">b05fcfbaabe7f4f41ca608921034f05b184223e9</checksum>
    <timestamp>1209631178</timestamp>
    <open-checksum
type="sha">de5402f922ad6d8cd67bf3c1713e8d68e8dcaa3f</open-checksum>
    <location href="repodata/other.xml.gz"/>
  </data>
  <data type="filelists_db">
    <location href="repodata/filelists.sqlite.bz2"/>
    <checksum type="sha">96cd6336332c53b31f27eef54ea30c7c8ac92b2d</checksum>
    <timestamp>1209631891</timestamp>
    <open-checksum
type="sha">e46b5c839f2deaab597fd0d43d1af6ab8d4159a9</open-checksum>
    <database_version>10</database_version>
  </data>
  <data type="filelists">
    <checksum type="sha">f947602c78cac488a9261b933579ca9f00fe844b</checksum>
    <timestamp>1209631178</timestamp>
    <open-checksum
type="sha">f56a0dcfbb32b2ed4b4a332300f78b546793a20b</open-checksum>
    <location href="repodata/filelists.xml.gz"/>
  </data>
  <data type="primary_db">
    <location href="repodata/primary.sqlite.bz2"/>
    <checksum type="sha">2c74ab6ccca143a46953fd89c15474d29da1ce49</checksum>
    <timestamp>1209632441</timestamp>
    <open-checksum
type="sha">ef8018ea76f2722d001f32be6381c2ea5d135dbc</open-checksum>
    <database_version>10</database_version>
  </data>
  <data type="primary">
    <checksum type="sha">20454a11cba5107b17760edbecc509f31dc0ac6e</checksum>
    <timestamp>1209631178</timestamp>
    <open-checksum
type="sha">3901b64caac2fe93941e2963054d6a220d4cb37f</open-checksum>
    <location href="repodata/primary.xml.gz"/>
  </data>
  <data type="group_gz">
    <location href="repodata/comps.xml.gz"/>
    <checksum type="sha">edeb54a365e6c7b62365bd1c5dea8184c8a7fd41</checksum>
    <open-checksum
type="sha">c1e82d2790a406d06421b4e055aa87c0c93f557f</open-checksum>
    <timestamp>1209632442</timestamp>
  </data>
  <data type="group">
    <location href="repodata/comps.xml"/>
    <checksum type="sha">c1e82d2790a406d06421b4e055aa87c0c93f557f</checksum>
    <timestamp>1209632442</timestamp>
  </data>
</repomd>

By the way, I tried to clean the whole /var/cache/yum/anaconda-upgrade dir with
no success.

Comment 9 Laszlo Beres 2008-05-05 14:10:16 UTC
I could reproduce it with another desktop machine in a totally different (but F8
too) environment.

Comment 10 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 10:29:47 UTC
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
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http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

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