Description of problem: I want to upgrade my Fedora Core 4 installation to Fedora 7 using the bootable DVD. After configuration of the boot options, anaconda starts to look for package dependencies and stops with an unhandled exception.
Created attachment 157087 [details] dump of unhandled exception
Same thing trying to upgrade from Fedora Core 5 to Fedora 7. Exception logged to floppy: attached
*** Bug 247925 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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*** Bug 246542 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I too have this same problem trying to upgrade from fc3 to f7. All these reports seem to be tied to kernel.i686. Since mine stopped in the "resolve dependencies" area, I assume that is true of all occurrences, given that the trace back looks almost identical. A work around would be most welcome.
I don't know if this work for all of these but, I got the update to work by using rpm to remove all the kernels save the one I actually was booting. Do: rpm -q kernel then rpm -e kernelxxx where the xxx is the kernel to remove. Do NOT remove the one grup is booting (look in the grup.conf file in /boot/grub/ or some such).
Upgrades are supported from the previous release to the current release, not from a far back release to the current one.