Problems installing FC6

Anne Wilson cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Mon Nov 6 13:30:23 UTC 2006


On Monday 06 November 2006 13:13, steve at afolkey2.net wrote:
> Hello, Everyone
> I am having this strange problem installing Fedora Core 6 on a system that
> has an AOpen mainboard and about 384MB of RAM.  Here is where things stand
> for now:
> 1. I ran sha1sum on the iso's on the machine that I burned them on.  All
> appeared to be well.
> 2. I burned the images to cd's (Memorex 52x media, though I burned all the
> discs at 16x)
> 3. Took all the discs to the place where the system is located.  Put disc
> 1 in the drive and rebooted, typing the following at the prompt: "linux
> mediacheck ide=nodma"
> 4. Tested all 5 discs, all passed except number 3.  I then proceeded to
> burn a new copy of that disc.  Re-ran "mediacheck" on it (still booted
> with the ide=nodma option) and it passed.
> 5. Rebooted the computer.  At the prompt I typed the following: "linux
> ide=nodma"
> 6. Selected my packages and clicked the appropriate button.  All still
> seems to be going fine.  No dependency issues at all.
> 7. After clicking whatever button came next, the installation appeared to
> proceed nicely.  Formatted all partitions that I told it to format.
> 8. Here's where things start to go bad. The following message pops up as
> expected: "Starting install process.  This may take several minutes..."
> 9. Then I get a prompt to put in Disc 2, which I do.  Then I am asked, in
> order, for discs 3-5.
> 10. Then I get a screen that is titled "Exception Occurred"  It starts out
> like this: "An unhandled exception has occured."
> 11. The main error, repeated multiple times, reads something like this:
> "error: db4 error(-30974) from dbenv->open:DB_VERSION_MISMATCH:Database
> environment version mismatch.
>  error: cannot open Packages database in /mnt/sysimage/var/lib/rpm"
>
> This strikes me as kind of odd for three reasons:
> a. The original iso's passed the sha1sum check.
> b. With ide=nodma appropriately passed, 1,2 & 4,5 passed.  My re-try at
> burning disc 3 appeared to pass as well.
> c. The big thing that makes it seem odd: installing Fedora usually works
> without any flaws whatsoever.  I even have FC6 running on our system at
> home, installed from the same images (hard drive install) So I'm not used
> to this :)
>
> I just had another idea, but I needed to get this down while I was
> inspired.  I'll let you know what happened with my idea.
>
> Any help you can give me is greatly appreciated,
> Steven P. Ulrick

When you were asked if you wanted to add any repos, did you opt to add Extras?

Something similar happened to me.  I started again and didn't ask for Extras 
and all was fine.

Anne
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