Bug 494259

Summary: anaconda RPM db error
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Tom Gutwin <tgutwin>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: rawhideCC: altbinspam, anaconda-maint-list, consulting, courte83, cramerd, jon.jahren, minovotn, pascal, pjones, ramkrsna, rmaximo, Sascha.Zorn, smith_it2000, str0belight, stransky, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: anaconda_trace_hash:4dad3b60e71aed36541a392a878a496f86048232132b934e653ca5f0ea4c4350
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Description Tom Gutwin 2009-04-06 03:49:20 UTC 
The following was filed automatically by anaconda:
anaconda 11.5.0.38 exception report
Traceback (most recent call first):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 864, in _getsysver
    idx = ts.dbMatch('provides', distroverpkg)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 794, in readMainConfig
    yumvars['releasever'] = _getsysver(startupconf.installroot, startupconf.distroverpkg)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 239, in _getConfig
    self._conf = config.readMainConfig(startupconf)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py", line 588, in doConfigSetup
    YumSorter._getConfig(self)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py", line 300, in __init__
    self.doConfigSetup(root=anaconda.rootPath)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py", line 1012, in doBackendSetup
    self.ayum = AnacondaYum(anaconda)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/backend.py", line 270, in doBackendSetup
    if anaconda.backend.doBackendSetup(anaconda) == DISPATCH_BACK:
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 205, in moveStep
    rc = stepFunc(self.anaconda)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 128, in gotoNext
    self.moveStep()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1317, in nextClicked
    self.anaconda.dispatch.gotoNext()
TypeError: rpmdb open failed
Comment 1 Tom Gutwin 2009-04-06 03:49:27 UTC 
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Comment 2 Tom Gutwin 2009-04-06 04:31:00 UTC 
I was installing the Beta F11.
I had just clicked next on the boot loader screen.

What is strange is that I had gotten past this point in a previous attempt to install but had to reinstall because the bootloader did not install properly.

I was trying to narrow down the cause of that.
Comment 3 Chris Lumens 2009-04-06 14:15:54 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 471717 ***
Comment 4 Ramakrishna Reddy 2009-06-04 10:01:40 UTC 
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Comment 6 Robert Case (Arlyle Consulting) 2009-06-20 18:50:52 UTC 
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Comment 7 Michal Novotny 2009-06-23 09:12:48 UTC 
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Comment 8 Lacrocivious Acrophosist 2009-07-05 00:34:38 UTC 
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Comment 9 Sascha Zorn 2009-07-10 20:31:14 UTC 
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Comment 10 Martin Stransky 2009-07-29 07:10:44 UTC 
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Comment 11 Edward 2009-09-21 14:53:38 UTC 
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Comment 14 Pascal Montaigne 2009-10-11 06:25:49 UTC 
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Comment 15 Jon Jahren 2009-10-20 05:04:51 UTC 
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