both the GUI and the text-mode installer crash (during the 'finding components to upgrade phase') on an alpha, after choosing the upgrade installation method. The 'anaconda' python script crashes during a gtk call which returns the debug dump: Traceback (innermost last) File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 243, in ? intf.run(todo, test=test) File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/text.py",line 1038, in run rc=apply(step[1](), step[2]) File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/text.py", line 257, in __call__ todo.upgradeFindPackages(root) File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/todo.py, line 1113, in upgradeFindPackages packages=rpm.findUpgradeSet (self.hdList.hdlist, self.instPath) rpm.error: error during upgrade check (this is what I got from the text-mode install exception stack dumper) The machine is a DEC Personal Workstation 500a, with ATAPI CDROM and a 4.3 gig HD attached to a QLogic ISP SCSI controller
Sounds like one of two things. Either you have mount options in /etc/fstab which are something other than "defaults" or you have files in your /RedHat/RPMS directory which are not really RPM files. The easiest way to determine whether it is the second one it to run "ls | grep -v rpm" in the RedHat/RPMS directory and see whether anything pops out. My guess is that you have filesystems listed in /etc/fstab with mount options other than "defaults" This is a known bug which is fixed by making use of the latest boot images available as errata.