Situation: FTP upgrade from RH5.1 Hardware: 486 16M ne2000 clone IDE When "Finding which packages to upgrade" install receives signal 7 and stops. The only particularity of this system is having an old slackware / on /dev/hda3 and the RH5.1 / on /dev/hdb3.
Changed /dev/hda3 a weird partition type (HURD :)) and the installer still dies.
try running "rpm --rebuilddb" on your old redhat system and run again.
I guess that worked, since I've heard nothing.
Actually i stoped beating it. And this 03/25/99 comment only reached me today (together with closing comment). I will try rebuilddb tonight and post a forward.
rpm --rebuilddb did not help. However, installing via NFS does not trigger the problem.
probably a stale stage2.img causing the ftp/http failures.
I've seen this happen for a number of reasons. Particularly it was happening for me over a RH 5.2 distribution on a P120 64M ne2K/tulip upgrade (the machine has 2 nics in it, but the install was going over the tulip nic). This was with RH 5.9.7 upgrade over NFS using the bootnet.img disk.
err .. meant to say I've also seen it happen on a straight NFS install when the RPM's for the distribution were last updated with an old version of genhdlist.