preupgrade error whilst 'Downloading installer stage 2'

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 22:28 +0200, mamoulian wrote:
> I'm trying to upgrade FC8 to FC9 (x86_64) using preupgrade preupgrade-0.9.3-3.fc8.noarch. It's been run a few times now, it gets about 95% through 'Downloading installer stage 2...' then just sits there. The console which launched it says:
> 
> [root at buffy [1] ~]# preupgrade
> Loading "kmdl" plugin
> Loading "skip-broken" plugin
> Loading "priorities" plugin
> Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
> Loading "protectbase" plugin
> Loading "fedorakmod" plugin
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>  * anaconda-upgrade: ftp.SURFnet.nl [2]
> 0 packages excluded due to repository protections
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>  * anaconda-upgrade: ftp.SURFnet.nl [3]
> 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 371, in main_preupgrade
>     (mdev,mpath) = preupgrade.bootpath_to_anacondapath(stage2_abs)
> TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable
> Any suggestions please?
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very similar happened to me too (i386)...I closed the 'preupgrade' window (it took some time to close...I didn't force it to terminate) and then started preupgrade again and it finished...see my bugzilla entry...

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447181

Craig