Bug 450781
| Summary: | Can not add/rm software after installing live CD to disk | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Jim Avera <james_avera2> | ||||
| Component: | PackageKit | Assignee: | Nobody's working on this, feel free to take it <nobody> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
| Severity: | urgent | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | notting, robin.norwood | ||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2008-07-04 09:52:26 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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Created attachment 308871 [details]
screen shot of the error
Not sure why this was filed under Package Review; unfortunately the package reviewers can't really help here. This sounds like either a gnome-packagekit or PackageKit issue; I'll reassign to gnome-packagekit, but it's quite possible that this will need to be reassigned again. I've testing installs from the livecd - they should work. Does running yum from the commandline as root work (when packagekit is not running)? I downloaded the regular (non-live) DVD image and did a normal install, and got the same problem! The problem was fixed by running yum grouplist in a terminal window as root. So, the bug seems to be that the install process does not do something which "yum grouplist" does (whatever that is). (continued...) I did not try using yum directly for installing software, so it is not certain that "yum grouplist" fixed the problem or just that running yum directly for any purpose fixed the problem. One more thing: My install created new / and /boot partitions on a second drive(/dev/sdb), and re-used an existing /home on /dev/sda (without re-formatting). There is an fc7 system on the other partitions of /dev/sda, but they should not be accessed by the fc9 installation since they are not mounted for any purpose. Anyway, it is conceivable that the install problem is somehow related to the system partitions being on the second drive (though that would be very surprising). |
The fc9 live cd boots and the desktop has an icon "install to hard drive", which invokes a process which copies data from the live CD to hd partitions. After doing that, System->Add/Remove Software results in a dialog with a list of package sets ("Gnome desktop", "KDE desktop", etc.). Clicking on any of the package sets first says "downloading file lists" in the status bar, but then an error dialog pops up saying: The group was not found comps categories could not be loaded Then the program is stuck forever with "Querying" in the status bar and the status indicator running back and forth, but nothing further happens. Internet connectivity is not the problem (I am typing this on the same system which can not install new software). I am behind a NAT firewall, but fc7 had no trouble installing/updating. Question: Is add/remove software supposed to work on systems installed form the live CD, or must the regular install DVD be used for a fully- functional system? My guess is that install-from-live-CD omits something critical needed by the application started by System->Administration->Add/Remove software. I'm marking this bug 'urgent' because the live CD is supposed to be the easy way to try out Fedora and install it on hard disk if you like it. But the result is a system which gives this unhelpful error when trying to add packages not on the live CD. If the problem can not be fixed then the "install to hard drive" option should either be removed from the live cd or made to warn the user that the resulting system does not support 'add/remove software'.