Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 5768
Upgrade failes on Thinkpad
Last modified: 2015-01-07 18:38:39 EST
...in todo.py:1155 > packages = rpm.findUpgradeSet (...) What I think: It did not mount the old partition. The device file is created under /tmp but mount does not show the filesystem mounted. proc is mounted under /mnt/sysimage/proc If I mount /tmp/hda5 to /mnt/sysimage, rpm.findUpradeSet works in the debugger.
I have had success upgrading from 60 to 61 on an IBM Thinkpad 380 with 3COM Etherlink III NIC/Modem. Used a CD from an ISO image. Booted from the floopy image. Upgrade works. ------- Additional Comments From 10/15/99 03:38 ------- I found the bug: in todo.py: def readFstab (self, path): f= open (path, r) lines= f.readlines () f.close fstab= {} for line in lines: fields= string.split (line) # skip comments if fields and fields[0][0]==' #': continue # all valid fstab entries have 6 fields if not len (fields) < 4 and len (fields) <= 6: if fields and (fields[2]== ext2 or fields[2]== swap) \ --> and fields[3]== defaults: format= 0 # XXX always format swap. if fields[2]== swap: format= 1 fstab[fields[1]]= (fields[0][5:], fields[2], format) return fstab It only accepts mounts, which have tghe single option' defaults' which failed, because I enabled the option noatime in /etc/fstab. The only valid check to exclude an entry woul be the presence of option' noauto'. I think this check is really dangerous: If you have options on e.g. /usr it would not be mounted, but upgraded which would lead to a heavily screwed up system.
*** Bug 5771 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** This looks very very similar to bugs #5705 and #5545 I tried installing it by both HTTP and FTP...I am upgrading from a Rh 6.0 install which is on hda2 (hda1 is a fat16 with dos). It is a simple IDE hd, with no raid or anything special. And when it crashes my linux partition does not seems to have been mounted. While it was in the "Reading packages information" phase I had the following python error... (which has been copied by hand from a "screenshot" done with a digital camera) Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda.real" line 225, in ? intf.run(todo, test = test) File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-package/text.py", line 1000, in run rc = apply (step[1](), step[2]) File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-package/text.py", line 251, in __call_ todo.upgradeFindPackages (root) File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-package/todo.py", line 1125, in upgradeFindPackages packages = rpm.findUpgradeSet (self.hdList.hdlist, self.instPath) rpm.error: error during upgrade check ------- Additional Comments From tester@videotron.ca 10/11/99 01:55 ------- I looked at it more closely and I believe that the bug is in the fs mounting section of the code not finding that the mount has failed (or simply "forgetting" to mount the partitions). The rpm error messages seems to be triggered by the impossibility to open the specified rpm db (since the fs has not been mounted). Btw, I believe the fs was not mounted because the mount command returned nothing about my main ext2 (on hda2) (didnt check in /proc/mount....) ------- Additional Comments From 10/15/99 06:26 ------- Same resaults doing a HD install or upgrade ------- Additional Comments From hchcheng@scg.math.uwaterloo.ca 10/18/99 20:36 ------- Same thing here installing from CD-ROM (both GUI and text). My fstab looks like: /dev/hda3 / ext2 exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1 /dev/hdb3 /home ext2 exec,dev,suid,rw 1 2 /dev/hda2 /mnt/backup ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,user 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 /dev/hda1 /win98-1 vfat exec,dev,suid,rw,conv=auto,umask=0 1 1 /dev/hdb1 /win98-2 vfat exec,dev,suid,rw,umask=0 1 1 /dev/pda1 /mnt/shark ext2 noauto 0 0 From the bash shell during the install, I see that /dev/hda2 was mounted, but /dev/hda3 was not when the installer hangs.
*** Bug 5789 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** It would be nice to have a Component section directly related to the boot-install images. I put this in installer for this reason. Priority high because if the problem is confirmed it means that the boot image has a real problem. My system is RH 6.0, kernel 2.2.10, upgraded from hard drive from a previous RH 5.2. This time I wanted to do the same to RH 6.1 but the process stopped with errors after the second phase of the system exploration. First it searched for redhat installation, this went OK, but the next one seemed to work but I got this (copied by hand): ------------------- Traceback(innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda.real",line 225, in ? intf.run(todo,test=test) File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-packages/text.py", line 1000, in run rc=apply(step[1](),step[2]) File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-packages/text.py", line 251, in __call__ todo upgradeFindPackages(root) File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-packages/todo.py", line 1155, in upgradeFindPackages packages=rpm.findUpgradeSet(self.hdList.hdlist,self.instPath) rpm.error: error during upgrade check [OK] [Debug] ---------------- My rpm version is 3.0.2 and I tried the upgrade after rpm --rebuildb to be sure that the database was OK, and it was. I have copied the RedHat directory on a different partition than my linux partition as it should be done. /Alexandre PS: I could not use bootnet because it simply does NOT work with my TI1225 pcmcia controller, although it works fine under my installed Linux (from /proc/pci: Bus 0, device 3, function 0: CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments Unknown device (rev 1). Vendor id=104c. Device id=ac1c. Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=192.Max Lat=7. ) ------- Additional Comments From jturner@redhat.com 10/11/99 08:58 ------- You will want to use the pcmcia.img disk when trying to use a pcmcia device for installation. This is why the bootnet.img file did not work for you . . . the card manager stuff is not on that disk. As for the error that you are receiving, do you have any NTFS partitions on the machine? ------- Additional Comments From 10/11/99 09:48 ------- I have noticed the change in the installation disks, that's better now, so I tried pcmcia.img, it recognizes my hardware and goes on but on the "finding padkages to update" message: * if I check the customize checkbox, the machines stays silent: no network activity and no hardrive activity after a short time and during 5 minutes or so * if I do not check the checkbox, the network seems active, but nothing happens even after one hour. This may be due to a network problem, I'll try later on, but the server responds normally, so it's strange. My try from the hard-drive failed as well and I gave the description. What is your diagnostic concerning these tries? ------- Additional Comments From 10/13/99 04:08 ------- I had confirmationon a network problem here, however the local installation problem from the hard drive still remains. My only partitions on my disk are: hda1: windows 98 hda5: Linux (only one mount for root) +swap and I had RH6.1 on hda1 to install it on hda5. I tried to install RH6.1 on a RH5.2 system with this disk configuration (fstab): /dev/hda2 / ext2 exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1 /dev/hda1 /dosc vfat user,noexec,nodev,nosuid,rw 0 0 /dev/hdb3 /export ext2 exec,dev,nosuid,rw 2 2 /dev/hdb4 /home/butter ext2 exec,dev,nosuid,rw 2 2 /dev/hda3 none swap sw /dev/hda4 none swap sw /dev/hdb1 none swap sw /dev/hdb2 none swap sw and I got the same error for a local installation. Alexandre
Hey guys, this is really easy. If you look at the code the option has to be 'defaults' and only 'defaults'. Everything else is ignored. I am really a little bit astonished that this cannot be affirmed by Redhat and here is so much discussion about it.
This problem is fixed by errata at http://www.redhat.com/corp/support/errata/RHEA1999045-01.html
This bug has not been resolved!!!! See bug 6278 harddrive install and about 6 other bugs with this same anoconda python error. This is getting old really fast. No wonder Win Nt is gaining Market share, when the Redhat linux install doesn't work. I really have questions in my mind when the product has a bigger install manual that it's operating manual. What a mess!!!
I was trying to do an upgrade from a hard drive partition, and it kept bailing out with the python stacktrace listed above. I finally removed the file TRANS.TBL from the RedHat/RPMS directory, and that solved the problem.