From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030425 Description of problem: During an upgrade from RedHat 8.0 the installer shut down in the "Preparing RPM Transaction" phase (or shortly thereafter). The upgrade was performed using a boot floppy and an NFS install. The error message before shutting down was: error reading information on service linuxconf: No such file or directory When booting into the old RedHat 8 system, it turned out that the installed linuxconf-1.25r7-3 RPM package (a leftover from some older RedHat?) could not be removed unless giving the --nopreun option. After successfuly removing the linuxconf package with "rpm -e --nopreun", the error disappeared and Fedora could be installed successfully. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. see above 2. 3. Actual Results: Installer shuts down Expected Results: Installer continues upgrading RPM packages Additional info:
I saw exactly the same thing. Removed all vestiges of linuxconf and then a subsequent upgrade completed without incident.
*** Bug 111533 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***