From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011012 Description of problem: Upgrading from 6.2, resulted in failure during the install stage. The traceback indicated some problem with grub. On a subsequent try, I chose to not install grub and the install went without a hitch. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. Upgrade from 6.2. Choose to install Grub 2. 3. Actual Results: Install fails at the point where packages are being upgraded with a traceback. Expected Results: Installation of 7.2! Additional info: Attaching annacdump.txt.
Created attachment 36481 [details] Traceback of installation failure
This looks like the grub package didn't get installed properly. Are there any errors in /tmp/upgrade.log?
This looks like the grub package didn't get installed properly. Are there any errors in /tmp/upgrade.log? Well, /tmp/ugrade.log contains the log from the successful attempt, which did not include grub. It includes grub as a package that was not installed. I don't think I have anything on the system that would contains debugging information from the failed attempt, except for the previously attached anacdump.txt.
But what about the first time from when you had selected grub? Looking at the dump, grub did properly get selected to be installed, but it is likely that the problem was an error in reading the grub package from the install media
Any more info here?
I'm afraid I don't have any more info. The failed installation prompted me to send anacdump.txt to bugzilla and that's all I have. I don't know why there would be a problem with the install media. We've upgraded a couple of other machines from the same NFS drive and never faced this problem.
Without more specific information / reproducible case, there's not much we can do. I'll chalk up to media error as this is the first I've seen of this. Media errors can be funny about being transient, only showing up on certain machines, etc unfortunately