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abrt version: 2.0.5 executable: /usr/bin/python hashmarkername: anaconda kernel: 3.0.0-1.fc16.x86_64 product: Fedora reason: YumBaseError: Error: rpmdb open failed time: Wed Aug 17 08:07:50 2011 version: 16-Alpha description: :The following was filed automatically by anaconda: :anaconda 16.14.6 exception report :Traceback (most recent call first): : File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 1024, in _getsysver : raise Errors.YumBaseError("Error: " + str(e)) : File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 879, in readStartupConfig : startupconf.releasever = _getsysver(startupconf.installroot, startupconf.distroverpkg) : File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 300, in _getConfig : startupconf = config.readStartupConfig(fn, root) : File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/yuminstall.py", line 778, in doConfigSetup : yum.YumBase._getConfig(self) : File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/yuminstall.py", line 362, in setup : self.doConfigSetup(root=self.anaconda.rootPath) : File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/yuminstall.py", line 1240, in doBackendSetup : self.ayum.setup() : File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/backend.py", line 192, in doBackendSetup : if anaconda.backend.doBackendSetup(anaconda) == DISPATCH_BACK: : File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/dispatch.py", line 348, in dispatch : self.dir = self.steps[self.step].target(self.anaconda) : File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/dispatch.py", line 235, in go_forward : self.dispatch() : File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/gui.py", line 1198, in nextClicked : self.anaconda.dispatch.go_forward() :YumBaseError: Error: rpmdb open failed
*** Bug 731480 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
On my system, this happened because anaconda mounted my ubuntu root (/dev/sda5) on /mnt/sysimage instead of the newly created /dev/vg0/fc16b_root. Obviously, there was no rpmdb in the debian-based tree. Now the question is: Why did it use the plain partition instead of the lvm volume I specified? This happens with boot.iso[1] (x86_64) downloaded on 2011-09-14, but not with Fedora-16-Beta-x86_64-netinst.iso[2] The first (and second) time this happened was with a bare-metal install. The third time was in a VirtualBox VM -- it is 100% reproducible. I can package up the VM if anyone is interested. 1 sha256 = f8a33b002182b559cf5e5c6b01cc18686965fc871712b71ae237feacbc757747 2 sha256 = 89bf5906c68d4e940cae11f4f8d8bad85d591d9a87917e41d1bde8351cf271b4
I am pretty sure this is a problem in anaconda, not yum.
This should be fixed in the F16 Beta, as you seem to have reported on your own.. I'm not completely certain since there are no logs attached but I suspect this has the same root cause as bug 693095. If you see this issue in the Beta, please reopen this bug and include the log files from /tmp as attachments. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 693095 ***