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

landon kelsey landonmkelsey at hotmail.com
Tue Sep 2 17:00:31 UTC 2008


I've always wondered:

If I have F8 and do frequent "yum update" s

do I have essentially F9 when F9 arrives!

Perhaps some root change in F9 cannot be transmitted by yum???








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> Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 09:54:28 -0700
> From: cb at lim.nl
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: F9 install: anaconda fails: Unable to read package metadata.
> 
> 
> 
> 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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