Did preupgrade make it in?

[Brian Wheeler]

On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 13:55 -0400, Will Woods wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 13:51 -0400, Brian Wheeler wrote:
> > Well, it worked for a while...  It got to "Downloading installer
> > metadata" and then hung.   The python backtrace looks like this:
> > 
> > No package matched to remove
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 198, in on_assistant_apply
> >     self._do_main()
> >   File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 206, in _do_main
> >     self.main_preupgrade()
> >   File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 349, in main_preupgrade
> >     self.pu.retrieve_treeinfo()
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/preupgrade/__init__.py", line 390, in retrieve_treeinfo
> >     raise PUError, "Cannot find any kernel/initrd section for this arch in treeinfo"
> > preupgrade.PUError: Cannot find any kernel/initrd section for this arch in treeinfo
> > 
> > 
> > This happened on two machines using preupgrade-0.9.3-2.fc8 looks like I
> > got bit by bug 446244.
> 
> What the heck? What arch is this machine? Is it a xen guest or anything
> weird?
> 

Nope.  It was a fresh install of F8, I believe.  This also failed on an
F8 which was an F7 update.


> Actually, I'm guessing it got a 0-byte file for treeinfo, and that's why
> it failed. The mirrors are, not surprisingly, a little busy right now.
> 

I did get "no more mirrors to try" once, but this failed differently.


There is a patch attached to the bug, but I've not tried it out yet.

Brian


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