f9 Preupgrade stalled?

[Reid Rivenburgh]

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Dave Feustel <dfeustel at mindspring.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 02:04:31PM -0700, Reid Rivenburgh wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Dave Feustel <dfeustel at mindspring.com> wrote:
>> > I'm running preupgrade and it seems to have stalled.
>> > The log follows. What do the advisories at the end mean?
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> > =================
>> >
>> > [root at c2 ~]# preupgrade
>> > Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
>> > No package matched to remove
>> > devhelp-0.21-2.fc10.i386 from anaconda-upgrade has depsolving problems
>> >  --> Missing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.9.0.2 is needed by package devhelp-0.21-2.fc10.i386 (anaconda-upgrade)
>> > gnome-python2-gtkmozembed-2.19.1-23.fc10.i386 from anaconda-upgrade has depsolving problems
>> >  --> Missing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.9.0.2 is needed by package gnome-python2-gtkmozembed-2.19.1-23.fc10.i386 (anaconda-upgrade)
>> > libkexiv2-0.1.7-1.fc9.i386 from installed has depsolving problems
>> >  --> Missing Dependency: libexiv2.so.2 is needed by package libkexiv2-0.1.7-1.fc9.i386 (installed)
>> > xulrunner-1.9.0.4-1.fc9.i386 from installed has depsolving problems
>> >  --> Missing Dependency: libhunspell.so.1 is needed by package xulrunner-1.9.0.4-1.fc9.i386 (installed)
>> > 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 395, in retrieve_treeinfo
>> >    self.instimage = cp.get('stage2', 'instimage')
>> >  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/ConfigParser.py", line 520, in get
>> >    raise NoOptionError(option, section)
>> > ConfigParser.NoOptionError: No option 'instimage' in section: 'stage2'
>>
>> I think the solution is to upgrade your preupgrade package.  I have
>> this installed:
>>
>> preupgrade-0.9.9-1.fc9.noarch
>>
>> I'm now on F10 prerelease (whee!); it worked fine eventually.
>> Basically, I think get the newer preupgrade package from updates or
>> rawhide.
>
> I tried running yum upgrade preupgrade but yum responded no packages
> to upgrade.
>
> Then I tried running preupgrade-cli Rawhide. This ran very fast but
> ended with no error message but a traceback that looked like the
> traceback that I got when I ran preupgrade (twice) in graphical mode.
> Is there anything I should do differently?

I imagine the cli version does the same thing, so no surprise there.
I was madly installing the packages needed to get it to work; this one
might have been the one that finally did it:

http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/development/x86_64/os/Packages/preupgrade-0.9.8-2.fc10.noarch.rpm

I downloaded that and installed it with "rpm -Uvh".  I may have had to
get one or two others from development to satisfy its requirements.
Hopefully that'll be clear.  After that, it should work!

reid