Description of problem: install RH 9.0 after RH 7.3 and you will end up in a 9.0 system that solely provides the minimum software packages despite the installation process extracted all RPMs. in particular, "mc" Midnight Commander is missing and any X11 window manager does expose major problems on launch. the installation will show this error message on the console before hitting the "reboot into final system" button: rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RH 9.0 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install RH 7.3 2. install RH 9.0 3. on reboot screen switch consoles to see installer errors 4. reboot system Actual results: console error message: rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery missing packages in rebooted system Expected results: there should not be any error messages on the installer console. if there are such serious error in the rpmdb, then the installer should take care for them and issue a serious error message about them. the installed system should be complete. Additional info: there is a related bug that describes errors with e2/e3 labeling that happened with same machine in same dual boot config, maybe that problem is dependent in some way to the spotted results. at least the root cause of the rpmdb error message should be identified, adequately handled and therefore resolved.
related bug is 89785
What are the contents of /root/install.log?
sorry cant provide that file any more - since the attempted install was not really usable it got purged from the system and done a different way. its some 4 weeks now since that bogus attempt. i recommend that you try it once yourselves, we tried it twice here and found it reproduceable.
Unable to reproduce here.