From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 4.0) Description of problem: The installer crashes after searching for packages to upgrade, or if swap file not initialised just at the end of the initialisation process. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot from seawolf i386 disc 1 2.Choose upgrade installation 3. Actual Results: The system produces an error message with the option to save the message to disk and restart the computer. The error is unrecoverable. Expected Results: OS should have gone through upgrade process. Additional info: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 520, in ? intf.run(todo, test = test) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 391, in run self.icw.run () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 879, in run mainloop () File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gtk.py", line 2554, in mainloop _gtk.gtk_main() File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gtk.py", line 125, in __call__ ret = apply(self.func, a) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 481, in nextClicked next = self.currentScreen.getNext () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/upgrade_swap_gui.py", line 78, in getNext self.todo.upgradeFindPackages() File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1240, in upgradeFindPackages iutil.rmrf (self.instPath + "/var/lib/anaconda-rebuilddb" File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py", line 294, in rmrf files = os.listdir (path) OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Local variables in innermost frame: path: /mnt/sysimage/var/lib/anaconda-rebuilddb1000207141
Created attachment 31596 [details] file generated by error report on Linux 7.0 machine
looks like you had some error when rebuilding the rpm database. Boot back into your 7.0 system, run rpm --rebuilddb, then try the upgrade again.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 37099 ***