Bug 723167

Created attachment 513751 [details]
Attached traceback automatically from anaconda.

It happened every time when I boot pre-alpha installer(http://serverbeach1.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/20110714/x86_64/iso/) to a virt guest which has an installed system using gpt partition table.

Created attachment 514758 [details]
rpmdb open failed in 16.13 also

this is from: Fedora-16-test-20110721-3-x86_64.iso.  Can't get around it.

*** Bug 727390 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Can you try updates=http://clumens.fedorapeople.org/723167.img against a tree containing anaconda-16.14-1?  This looks pretty stupid, like we're trying to open an rpmdb on systems that won't ever contain one when trying to find an upgrade candidate.

http://clumens.fedorapeople.org/723167.img works for me.  (Other issues surface, trying to bz them.)

(In reply to comment #5)
> Can you try updates=http://clumens.fedorapeople.org/723167.img against a tree
> containing anaconda-16.14-1?  This looks pretty stupid, like we're trying to
> open an rpmdb on systems that won't ever contain one when trying to find an
> upgrade candidate.

I cannot reproduce this issue on anaconda 16.14.

(In reply to comment #7)
> (In reply to comment #5)
> > Can you try updates=http://clumens.fedorapeople.org/723167.img against a tree
> > containing anaconda-16.14-1?  This looks pretty stupid, like we're trying to
> > open an rpmdb on systems that won't ever contain one when trying to find an
> > upgrade candidate.
> 
> I cannot reproduce this issue on anaconda 16.14.

I can reproduce the issue now when I boot F16-alphaTC1 to a guest which has F-15 installed. By using the updates, this issue didn't happen, but kernel oops happened as well as an error: cannot open Packages database in /mnt/sysimage/var/lib/rpm. Log attached.

Created attachment 516645 [details]
tmp_kernelOops.tar.gz

If there are other errors, let's track those separately.

Created attachment 516994 [details]
anaconda traceback and debug info

"error: rpmdb open failed"

Installing from DVD (Fedora 16 Alpha RC1) to a machine which has many partitions, including several non-upgradable (FC6, Ubuntu, ...)  I intended to do a fresh install overwriting an existing partition, but never got far enough to make that choice.

anaconda 16.14.2 exception report
Traceback (most recent call first):
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/storage/__init__.py", line 1449, in getReleaseString
    mi = ts.dbMatch('provides', 'initscripts')
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/storage/__init__.py", line 1508, in findExistingRootDevices
    (arch, product, version) = getReleaseString(anaconda.rootPath)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/upgrade.py", line 81, in findRootParts
    upgradeany=flags.cmdline.has_key("upgradeany"))
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/dispatch.py", line 348, in dispatch
    self.dir = self.steps[self.step].target(self.anaconda)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/dispatch.py", line 235, in go_forward
    self.dispatch()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/gui.py", line 1198, in nextClicked
    self.anaconda.dispatch.go_forward()
error: rpmdb open failed

Created attachment 516995 [details]
storage.log

/tmp/storage.log corresponding to attachment #516994 [details]

Working on the assumption that 729053 is a dupe of this, we accepted the issue as NTH at the QA meeting today, so can we please get a new anaconda 16.14.x build with the fix for this added in? Thanks!

*** Bug 729053 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

anaconda-16.14.3-1.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/anaconda-16.14.3-1.fc16

Package anaconda-16.14.3-1.fc16:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 16 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing anaconda-16.14.3-1.fc16'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/anaconda-16.14.3-1.fc16
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

anaconda-16.14.4-1.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/anaconda-16.14.4-1.fc16

anaconda-16.14.5-1.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/anaconda-16.14.5-1.fc16

anaconda-16.14.6-1.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/anaconda-16.14.6-1.fc16

anaconda-16.14.6-1.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.