Description of problem: 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 381, in retrieve_treeinfo cp.readfp(tif) File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/ConfigParser.py", line 286, in readfp self._read(fp, filename) File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/ConfigParser.py", line 462, in _read raise MissingSectionHeaderError(fpname, lineno, line) ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers. file: <???>, line: 1 '-rw-r--r-- 1 1002 1002 390 May 6 18:12 .treeinfo\r\n' Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): preupgrade-0.9.3-3.fc8 How reproducible: Have not tried to reproduce. Trying now. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run preupgrade 2. Try upgrading to Fedora 9 Actual results: Traceback. Expected results: Successful run without traceback. Additional info:
Your .treeinfo file looks pretty obviously wrong. Were you using a custom mirror? Did it work properly on the second try?
No response from reporter, can't reproduce, nobody else has reported it.
Turns out this *has* been seen elsewhere - following up there. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 447181 ***