Bug 585146

Summary: preupgrade fails with "preupgrade.error.PUError: Failed to download installer metadata"
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu>
Component: preupgradeAssignee: Richard Hughes <richard>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Jeremy Huddleston 2010-04-23 09:12:38 UTC
Description of problem:

[jeremy@tifa-linux Download]$ sudo preupgrade-cli "Fedora 13 (Branch)"
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py:215: UserWarning: Use .preconf instead of passing args to _getConfig
  warnings.warn('Use .preconf instead of passing args to _getConfig')
Loaded plugins: blacklist, dellsysidplugin2, refresh-packagekit, whiteout
Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin2, refresh-packagekit
preupgrade-main (mirrorlist) 
  url: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-13&arch=$basearch
  now: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-13&arch=x86_64
preupgrade (mirrorlist) 
  url: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?path=pub/fedora/linux/development/13/$basearch/os
  now: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?path=pub/fedora/linux/development/13/x86_64/os
Fetched treeinfo from http://errors.secsup.org
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-cli.py", line 312, in <module>
    pu.main(myrelease)
  File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-cli.py", line 186, in main
    self.retrieve_treeinfo()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/preupgrade/__init__.py", line 385, in retrieve_treeinfo
    raise PUError, "Failed to download installer metadata"
preupgrade.error.PUError: Failed to download installer metadata



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

[jeremy@tifa-linux Download]$ yum info preupgrade
Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin2, refresh-packagekit
Installed Packages
Name       : preupgrade
Arch       : noarch
Version    : 1.1.4
Release    : 1.fc12
Size       : 347 k
Repo       : installed
From repo  : updates
Summary    : Prepares a system for an upgrade
URL        : https://fedorahosted.org/preupgrade/
License    : GPLv2+
Description: preupgrade prepares your Fedora system for an upgrade to the next version
           : by examining your system, downloading all the files needed for the upgrade,
           : and then setting up your system to perform the upgrade after rebooting.


How reproducible:

Happens every time.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install fc12
2. Install preupgrade
3. sudo preupgrade-cli "Fedora 13 (Branch)"

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2010-11-03 16:31:03 UTC
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Comment 2 Jeremy Huddleston 2010-11-03 18:36:36 UTC
Moving to 14 under assumption that it is still broken (since there is no indication otherwise)

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