Unable to read group information from repositories

[Christopher Aillon]

On 03/17/2009 07:49 PM, Jerry James wrote:
> I just tried to do an install of x86-64 Rawhide into a virtual
> machine, using boot.iso dated 17 Mar 2009.  I got up to the part where
> it formats the filesystem.  At that point, I got an error dialog box
> that says:
> 
> "Unable to read group information from repositories.  This is a
> problem with the generation of your install tree."
> 
> Now what?


That's https://bugzilla.redhat.com/490490

Either wait until tomorrow's boot.iso is generated or append:

   updates=http://caillon.fedorapeople.org/updates-490490.img

to your anaconda kernel boot line.