Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 109512
Installer aborts when installing kdebase
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:33 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7 Description of problem: During upgrade from RedHat 9, the installer reproducably aborted when trying to install kdebase. It was installing kdebase because kdelib was installed. The error appeared to be that the kdebase RPM was trying to write a file to a read-only filesystem during the install. Removing kdelib and thus avoiding the installation of kdebase worked around the problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Get RedHat 9 machine with kdelib installed (but not kdebase). 2. Upgrade to Fedora Core 1 3. Watch failure. Actual Results: The installer aborted and required the machine to be rebooted. I poked around on the other consoles to see what had gone wrong. Expected Results: Installation Additional info:
i assume you have used anaconda to upgrade your system.
Yes, I used anaconda. The media checked fine (this happened both from a CD and from ISO images on the HDD). A colleague who did the upgrade didn't have this problem, but they already had kdebase installed before the upgrade - I didn't, it was dragged in as a dependency.
Does it work if you boot with 'linux allowcddma'?
I don't know, and the machine's upgraded now. It's hard too see why, since it wasn't using the CDROM at the time of the error - it was reading the RPMs from the HDD.
we had the same problem and fixed it by removing kdelib now when installing kdebase we get There was a fatal RPM install error. The message was: There was a rpm unpack error installing the package: kdebase-3.1.4-6
It doesn't happen if kdebase is already installed - I just upgraded my father-in-law's machine and he had no problems.
This should be better in newer releases.