On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 22:39 -0600, Reid Rivenburgh wrote: > Hi. I'm currently running F10 on x86_64 and thought I'd try an > upgrade to F11/rawhide. I think I used preupgrade to go from F9 to > F10, and it worked fine. This time, it downloaded images and tons of > packages, then died with this output: If you're going to be doing preupgrades, please: 1) use preupgrade-1.1.0 (in updates-testing right now), and 2) don't bother going from F9->F10->F11. Just go straight to 11/Rawhide. > ... > Generating metadata for preupgrade repo > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 766, in <module> > widgets = PreUpgradeGtk() > File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 374, in __init__ > self._do_main() > File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 257, in _do_main > self.main_preupgrade() > File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 545, in main_preupgrade > callback=MDGenCallback(pbar=self.progress)) > File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/preupgrade/__init__.py", line > 651, in generate_repo > misc.generate_repodata(dir,comps,callback) > File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/preupgrade/misc.py", line > 131, in generate_repodata > generate_repodata(dir, comps, callback) > File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/preupgrade/misc.py", line > 147, in generate_repodata_f9 > mdgen.doPkgMetadata() > File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/createrepo/__init__.py", line > 332, in doPkgMetadata > self.writeMetadataDocs(packages) > File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/createrepo/__init__.py", line > 472, in writeMetadataDocs > self.primaryfile.write(po.xml_dump_primary_metadata()) > File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/packages.py", line 1013, > in xml_dump_primary_metadata > msg += misc.to_unicode(self._dump_base_items()) > File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/packages.py", line 846, > in _dump_base_items > (csum_type, csum, csumid) = self.checksums[0] > IndexError: list index out of range That's odd. It looks like createrepo failed. But notice the "generate_repodata_f9" line there - if your system is F10, why is it using F9 createrepo? Try upgrading createrepo (and preupgrade!) and try it again. You should also update your system and run 'package-cleanup --problems' to make sure your system has the right packages. The old preupgrade (1.0.x) didn't install updates etc. so it sometimes fails to upgrade packages that need upgrading. > There were also many dependency line like this before the above output: > > 1:qt-x11-4.5.1-10.fc10.i386 from installed has depsolving problems > --> Missing Dependency: libcrypto.so.7 is needed by package > 1:qt-x11-4.5.1-10.fc10.i386 (installed) These are non-fatal - please ignore them. > I have picasa 3.x installed, and probably some other external > packages; could they be causing the crash? Possibly. It looks like createrepo is having trouble handling some non-UTF8 data from some of your packages. Probably your createrepo package is old and just a bit buggy. If you were using preupgrade-1.1.0 it could possibly be due to misbehaving packages in a third-party repo. But you didn't mention that, so it's probably not the problem. > If preupgrade doesn't > work, I may either try to upgrade via yum after release or burn a > disk. TIA! Please, do yourself a favor and do *not* yum upgrade. If you decide to ignore me and do it anyway, do *NOT* run yum from a terminal in X. Run it in a 'screen' session, or from a virtual terminal, or something like that. If the terminal crashes mid-upgrade - and there are known bugs that will cause that! - your system will be a broken half-upgraded mess of duplicate and/or missing packages. Seriously. Yum upgrades on a running system are not safe. Be very careful with them. -w -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
