preupdate won't update

shmuel siegel fedora at shmuelhome.mine.nu
Fri May 2 12:38:39 UTC 2008


shmuel siegel wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
>> On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 22:22 +0300, shmuel siegel wrote:
>>  
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>       
>>> I tried again and this is still not working. The dialog box says 
>>> that I probably have a bad generation of my install tree. Could 
>>> there be a problem from the fact that this is a dual boot system 
>>> with fedora on the extended partition in VolGroup00/LogVol00?
>>>     
>>
>> Which dialog box says this?
>>
>> -sv
>>   
> The sequence of dialog boxes during the boot process is:
>
> grub to choose rawhide update
> Welcome to fedora
> Anaconda to choose update fc8 on volgroup00
> Update boot loader
> Transferring from Fedora followed by a lot of disk activity for about 
> 15 seconds
> Error dialog Unable to read group information from repositories Exit 
> or retry
>
Some more information. I tried to do an install instead of an update. 
Anaconda through an exception saying that there wasn't any file or 
directory  /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00.  Is this relevant?




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