F9 install: anaconda fails: Unable to read package metadata.

Colin Brace cb at lim.nl
Tue Sep 2 16:54:28 UTC 2008



Phil Meyer wrote:
> 
> I have seen that exact symptom twice, on different versions of Fedora.  
> In both cases, the system involved ended up having memory errors.
> 
> It may be time for a memtest on the system you are trying to install to.
> 

Thanks for the suggestion. The system is nearly a year old, and I haven't
previously noticed any symptoms which might indicate that, but next time I
boot I will run memtest just to be sure.

In any case I ended up using yum to bring the system up to F9. That went
fine.

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