Re: preupdate won't update

[shmuel siegel <fedora shmuelhome mine nu>]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 07:33 +0300, shmuel siegel wrote:
>   
> > seth vidal wrote:
> >     
> > > On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 07:11 +0300, shmuel siegel wrote:
> > >   
> > >       
> > > > From a fully updated fc8 on a dell latitude d620 I tried to run 
> > > > preupdate to rawhide
> > > > first try ran out of room in boot while downloading stage2 so I deleted 
> > > > a kernel version
> > > > second try finished
> > > > when I rebooted and tried to perform the update, I got an error message 
> > > > saying that the installer couldn't find groups in the repository
> > > >     
> > > >         
> > > What version of preupgrade did you use?
> > >
> > > -sv
> > >
> > >
> > >   
> > >       
> > The original, from when it was first announced.
> >     
>
> Ah, okay. That might just be a bug we fixed then - it could also have
> been a flaky rawhide mirror. Try 0.9.2 from koji and see if it makes it
> work more properly.
>
> Also go into /var/cache/yum/anaconda-upgrade/ if see a comps.xml or a
> groups.xml.gz or anything like that, remove it, just in case it is bogus
> or broken in some way.
>
> -sv
>
>   
I tried updating to the version in fedora-testing. Didn't work. I then 
removed the suggested files, still didn't work. The only symptom that I 
can mention is that the dialog that connects to Fedora only goes to 40% 
before it disappears. I have no idea if the connection was successful.

This is all of the time I have for now. will get back to this later.