Preupgrade problem

Reid Rivenburgh reidr at pobox.com
Tue May 19 04:39:03 UTC 2009


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:

...
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

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)

I have picasa 3.x installed, and probably some other external
packages; could they be causing the crash?  If preupgrade doesn't
work, I may either try to upgrade via yum after release or burn a
disk.  TIA!

-- 
Reid




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