While trying to upgrade my old Thinkpad T30 from FC-6 to F8-test2, the graphical installer gets stuck with the message "829 of 828 packages installed". Mouse cursor is moving, but process is otherwise stuck. Going to console screen 1, i'm seeing scrolling messages : rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected: run recovery In console screen 3, I have: 19:22:04 INFO : Preparing to install packages 19:36:54 WARNING : /usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py:55: GtkWarning: Failed to set text from markup due to error parsing markup: Error on line 2: Character '' is not valid at the start of an entity name; the & character begins an entity; if this ampersand isn't supposed to be an entity, escape it as & self.infolabel.set_markup(txt) 19:37:11 WARNING: /usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py:49: GtkWarning: gtk_progress_set_percentage: assertion `percentage >= 0 && percentage <= 1.0` failed self.progress.set_fraction(pct) This is on a Thinkpad T30 (i386), running FC-6. Upgrade done through network PXE.
Looks like i had a broken rpm database. After rebuilding the database, the upgrade went fine. Well, the installer completed the upgrade. Now the kernel crashes on boot, but that's another story...