From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: On a fresh desktop install (default packages), redhat-config-packages gives the following error: "The path None does not look like a valid installation source" and dies. The only way to install packages from the installation CDs is to use rpm from console, or to run redhat-config-packages with the --tree=/mnt/cdrom option to manually point it to the CD. Even then, if you try to install packages off a different CD, instead of prompting for the other CD it simply gives an "unknown error" and dies. If run from console I was getting some kind of error about it being unable to find redhat-cdinstall-helper or something (that binary isn't on my system). [DIFFERENT ISSUE]I am no longer able to duplicate that error because in trying to fix this I uninstalled the redhat-config-packages package, intending to reinstall it, but before I got there my rpm Packages index somehow got corrupted, and now rpm just hangs when I try to install any package, remove any package, or rebuilddb. Guess I'm going to start over from scratch with this system. [/DIFFERENT ISSUE]. I also poked around a bit in the code of redhat-config-packages and noted that at various points it tries to look in /usr/share/comps - that directory also doesn't exist on my system. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.install fresh desktop RH8.0. 2.try to run redhat-config-packages from the control panel 3. Actual Results: Error dialog: "The path None does not look like a valid installation source." Program exits. Expected Results: Package manager should have come up, and (I'm guessing, since it's never worked for me) it should have prompted me for the CDs it needed to install the packages I asked for. Additional info:
What does 'rpm -q comps' say on your system? How did you do your installation?
I just run into the same problem. It looks like /usr/share/comps is missing after a network install!
It always gets installed for me. Closing due to inactivity from the original reporter.