Description of problem: Preupgrade fails for the upgrade from fedora 8 to fedora 9. Running preupgrade results in a python crash. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): [james@jumbovaio Desktop]$ rpm -qa | grep preupgrade preupgrade-0.9.3-2.fc8 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run preupgrade from a fedora 8 machine 2. Attempt to upgrade to fedora 9 3. Wait for preupgrade to download all the required packages (the progress meter gets to the last step, with progess given as 90.0%) 4. Watch preupgrade crash Actual results: [root@jumbovaio Desktop]# preupgrade Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Loading "priorities" plugin Loading "skip-broken" plugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * anaconda-upgrade: ftp.quicknet.nl Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * anaconda-upgrade: ftp.quicknet.nl No package matched to remove Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 198, in on_assistant_apply self._do_main() File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 206, in _do_main self.main_preupgrade() File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 349, in main_preupgrade self.pu.retrieve_treeinfo() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/preupgrade/__init__.py", line 390, in retrieve_treeinfo raise PUError, "Cannot find any kernel/initrd section for this arch in treeinfo" preupgrade.PUError: Cannot find any kernel/initrd section for this arch in treeinfo Expected results: Preupgrade completes without crashing Additional info:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 446244 ***