Bug 501887 - Error downloading RPMs in netinstall CD when upgrading.
Summary: Error downloading RPMs in netinstall CD when upgrading.
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 11
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-05-21 08:42 UTC by Krzysztof Adamski
Modified: 2009-06-10 13:32 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-06-10 13:32:53 UTC
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Description Krzysztof Adamski 2009-05-21 08:42:14 UTC
Description of problem:
I've upgraded Fedora 10 to Fedora 11-Preview using netinstall CD. While doing that I had a problem with downloading some RPM files, however. I've checked the logs (pressing ctrl+alt+F3, I think) and I found out that installer did try few mirrors, each 10 times but it was getting following error from FTP/HTTP servers all the time:
[Errono 4] Requested Range Not Satisiable due to unobtainable file length.

After some tries it gave me an information it couldn't download RPM and i had two choises:
- stop installation and reboot leaving my system in inconsistent state
- try again (which failed all the time)

I didn't want inconsistent system so I've investigated the problem a little more and I found out that it's easy to fix - I had to manually (using console in ctrl+alt+F2) remove RPM files that failed to download from /mnt/sysimage/var/cache/yum/rawhide/packages/ and then press "retry". 

I know that I shouldn't have this RPM files in /mnt/sysimage/var/cache/yum/rawhide/packages/ but somehow they where there and installer wasn't smart enough to handle this situation (but it could be).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 11-Preview netinstall CD

How reproducible:
I didn't try as I fixed this issue myself. 

Additional info:
I'm not sure how to actually reproduce this but I think you should have bad RPM file in the cache while upgrading. From the error message given by FTP/HTTP servers I believe in my situation the file was to big.

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 16:13:30 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 2 Chris Lumens 2009-06-10 13:32:53 UTC
This will be fixed in the next build of anaconda.  Thanks for the bug report.


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