When I attempt to upgrade my RedHat 6.0 installation to 6.1, the upgrade fails in Reading Package Information. The installation media is a local hard drive (/dev/hdb). I noticed there seems to be a problem with upgrading if an ntfs partition exists, however I don't have one, but here is my partition table anyway (just in case there is another partion table related error) Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2100 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 17 136521 82 Linux swap /dev/hda2 18 34 136552+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda3 * 35 2100 16595145 83 Linux Disk /dev/hdb: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 12592 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 * 1 10592 5338336+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb2 10593 12592 1008000 5 Extended /dev/hdb5 10594 12591 1006992 83 Linux /dev/hda3 is /usr , /dev/hdb1 is / , and /dev/hdb5 is /usr2 and the hard drive containing the redhat install files. Here is the python error info (hand coppied so itmight be slightly inaccurate) /t/l/p/sp = /tmp/lib/python1.5/site-packages/ Traceback (innermost last ): File "/usr/bin/anaconda.real", line 225, in ? intf.run(todo, test = test) File "/t/l/p/sp/text.py", line 1000, in run rc = apply(step[1](), step[2]) File "/t/l/p/sp/text.py", line 251, in __call__ todo.upgradeFindPackages(root) File "/t/l/p/sp/todo.py", line 1147, in upgradeFindPackages self.getCompsList() File "/t/l/p/sp/todo.py", line 942, in getCompsList self.getHeaderList() File "/t/l/p/sp/todo.py", line 930, in getHeaderList self.hdlist = self.method.readHeaders() File "/t/l/p/sp/Comps.py", line 50, in __init__ name = h[rpm.RPMTAB_NAME] TypeError: unsubscriptable object I'm not really familiar with python, so I'm not exactly sure whats going on.
Bug# 5551 and Bug# 5638 are the same. It's the same problem here. It seems to be related to the fact we are using a local hard drive (ext2) as the installation media.
again, this is the same bug as 5618, but I wasn't using ext2 as installation media, I was using FTP.
Well, I got off my lazy ass and burned the iso to cd, everything went smoothly therafter. So, it seems your guys hunch about the problem being due to the installation media (e.g. ext2 partition -- perhaps even local hd in general?) is the cause.
Please see bug #6159, as that describes the problem which you appear to be having. I am discarding this bug to prevent clutter, as details are in that bug posting.