Description of problem: Preupgrade crashes while upgrading to Rawhide from F9 with a traceback and exception, hanging the UI saying "Downloading installer metadata..." Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.9.3-3 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1.$ /usr/bin/preupgrade in console 2.Select rawhide, go through the motions 3.Stare exasperated at the traceback Actual results: [xxxxxxx@xxxxxx ~]$ preupgrade Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit 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 395, in retrieve_treeinfo self.instimage = cp.get('stage2', 'instimage') File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/ConfigParser.py", line 520, in get raise NoOptionError(option, section) ConfigParser.NoOptionError: No option 'instimage' in section: 'stage2' The UI isn't frozen, but stops at "Downloading installer metadata...", with the system tray tooltip reporting 92.5%. Expected results: Preupgrade completes, leaving me with a yummy rawhide system
Same issue here when upgrading from Fedora 9 to Rawhide with preupgrade 0.9.3-3.fc9. The problem is that http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/i386/os/.treeinfo contains only a mainimage option in the [stage2] section, but not an instimage option.
Rawhide drops the instimage entry because we no longer produce them. Current preupgrade doesn't use instimage at all, so this isn't a problem. preupgrade-0.9.8 or higher will fix this problem. Either fetch packages from koji: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=63559 (you'll also need the anaconda-yum-plugins package from koji) or wait for it to hit updates-testing.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 459935 ***