Bug 596387
| Summary: | DVD-based upgrade from F12 on x86_64 fails | ||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Patrick O'Callaghan <poc> | ||||||
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||||
| Severity: | urgent | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||||
| Version: | 13 | CC: | anaconda-maint-list, jonathan, vanmeeuwen+fedora | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2011-03-04 23:12:39 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||
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Minor correction: the error message appears on clicking Next at the Grub configuration screen (which was left at its default setting). Please attach /tmp/*.log from when you hit this error to this bug report. Created attachment 417016 [details]
Tarball of install logs
Complete logs from install attempt.
Is there also a /tmp/syslog? I guess my glob wasn't really as useful as I had hoped. If I was to take a stab at this, I'd guess that there's an error reading your DVD media so anaconda tried to fall back on the network source, which doesn't work due to the network not being available. That's all conjecture for now, though. I'll see if there's a /tmp/syslog and post it if so. However I checked the media twice with mediacheck and also made sure it was readable by ripping the DVD to an image file and doing a bytewise compare with the original image. The result is an EOF on the original image, which I interpret as an artifact of the DVD structure. The two files are respectively 3630045184 (original) and 3630071808 (ripped) bytes long. Perhaps if I knew what specific file Anaconda is looking for I could do a manual check. There is a repomd.xml file but nothing in the contents looks even approximately like "anaconda-InstallationRepo-201005130101.x86_64". Created attachment 417038 [details]
/tmp/syslog
/tmp/syslog from failed install session.
Further info: I copied the install image to a pendrive and booted from there (had to disable EDD for some reason but that was the only change). I get exactly the same error. This would seem to eliminate the DVD media and the optical drive as sources of the problem. It's definitely a bug in the image itself. I am as certain as I can be that the image is correct as it passes every possible checksum test (I even double-checked with the online copy of the checksum to make sure I hadn't got a spoofed version of the image). I decided to try installing via a boot.iso disk, so I created a bootable pendrive containing boot.iso and fired it up using the "askmethod" incantation (BTW the docmentation on how to do this is deficient; I'll file a separate bug report on that). I then told it to use the DVD as its repo.
At first I got exactly the same error as before, but this time I clicked on the Edit button to see if there was anything worth changing. I looked at the drop-down menu (it offered NFS/FTP, CD/DVD and Hard Disk if I remember correctly). CD/DVD was selected of course, and I didn't change it. Nor did I change the repo name field ("Installation Repository"). On closing the Edit dialogue I then hit Retry.
The system started installing.
To repeat: I changed nothing at all (I know, they all say that, but it's literally true), but now it worked. On previous occasions I had hit Retry and even the Edit dialogue to no effect, but now the system installed.
Maybe it needed time for some bus to settle, or it was the time of day, the day of the month, the phase of the moon, whatever. Or maybe there's a Heisenbug in Anaconda. Right now, I'll believe anything but F13 is now installed on my system.
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Description of problem: Can't upgrade from F12 to F13 using the Installation DVD for x86_64. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Repeatable. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Insert Install DVD 2.Progress until Disk Selection screen and configure 3.Press Next Actual results: Error message: "Unable to read package metadata. This may be due to a missing repodata directory. Please ensure that your install tree has been correctly generated. Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: anaconda-InstallationRepo-201005130101.x86_64. Please verify its path and try again." Expected results: Successful upgrade. Additional info: The DVD was downloaded using Bittorrent via the tracker posted on the Fedora BT page. It passed the sha256sum check and the install media check (twice). The DVD boots and everything seems fine until the above error message.