Bug 428709 - Anaconda 11.4.0.20 dies at beginning of RPM transaction
Summary: Anaconda 11.4.0.20 dies at beginning of RPM transaction
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard: hotissue
Depends On:
Blocks: F9Alpha
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-01-14 19:13 UTC by Will Woods
Modified: 2008-01-15 13:49 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2008-01-15 13:49:44 UTC
Type: ---
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
debugging dump from anaconda (430.53 KB, text/plain)
2008-01-14 19:13 UTC, Will Woods 		no flags Details
updates-20080114-i386.img (667.89 KB, application/octet-stream)
2008-01-14 21:45 UTC, Will Woods 		no flags Details
updates-20080114-i386.img (ext2 fs image) (2.00 MB, application/octet-stream)
2008-01-14 21:56 UTC, Will Woods 		no flags Details
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Description Will Woods 2008-01-14 19:13:44 UTC 
Current rawhide anaconda dies with a traceback at the beginning of the RPM
transaction. The following messages appear on VT1:

error: no dbpath has been set
error: cannot open Packages database in /mnt/sysimage/%{_dbpath}

I guess maybe we're missing rpm macros or something?

I've attached the anacdump.
Comment 1 Will Woods 2008-01-14 19:13:44 UTC 
Created attachment 291614 [details]
debugging dump from anaconda
Comment 2 Chris Lumens 2008-01-14 20:03:12 UTC 
This should be fixed in the next build of anaconda.
Comment 3 G.Wolfe Woodbury 2008-01-14 21:14:15 UTC 
Same thing seen here on i686 platform.

Do you want my anacdump too?
Comment 4 Will Woods 2008-01-14 21:45:54 UTC 
Created attachment 291645 [details]
updates-20080114-i386.img

This updates.img fixes the problem in anaconda 11.4.0.20. Tomorrow's rawhide
should include this fix; you can use this in the meantime to install i386
rawhide.

(see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Updates for details on using
updates images)
Comment 5 Will Woods 2008-01-14 21:56:07 UTC 
Created attachment 291647 [details]
updates-20080114-i386.img (ext2 fs image)

Whoops - the previous image was a cpio archive, which didn't work as expected.
This one does.
Comment 6 G.Wolfe Woodbury 2008-01-15 09:50:37 UTC 
This does fix the problem.

Note that the fedoraproject.org Wiki about Anaconda Updates is inconsistent
about the format of the updates.img file.  First it says make an ext3 image, and
the next section says they are CPIO archives.

Obviously the last section is wrong.
Comment 7 Chris Lumens 2008-01-15 13:49:44 UTC 
Updated the wiki.  Thanks for the notice.
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