[Bug 450781] New: Can not add/rm software after installing live CD to disk

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450781

           Summary: Can not add/rm software after installing live CD to disk
           Product: Fedora
           Version: 9
          Platform: i386
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: urgent
          Priority: low
         Component: Package Review
        AssignedTo: nobody at fedoraproject.org
        ReportedBy: james_avera2 at yahoo.com
         QAContact: extras-qa at fedoraproject.org
                CC: fedora-package-review at redhat.com,notting at redhat.com


The fc9 live cd boots and the desktop has an icon "install to hard drive", 
which invokes a process which copies data from the live CD to hd partitions.

After doing that, System->Add/Remove Software results in a dialog with
a list of package sets ("Gnome desktop", "KDE desktop", etc.).  Clicking on
any of the package sets first says "downloading file lists" in the status bar,
but then an error dialog pops up saying:

    The group was not found
    comps categories could not be loaded

Then the program is stuck forever with "Querying" in the status bar
and the status indicator running back and forth, but nothing further happens.

Internet connectivity is not the problem (I am typing this on the same
system which can not install new software).   I am behind a NAT firewall,
but fc7 had no trouble installing/updating.   

Question: Is add/remove software supposed to work on systems installed
form the live CD, or must the regular install DVD be used for a fully-
functional system?

My guess is that install-from-live-CD omits something critical needed by
the application started by System->Administration->Add/Remove software.

I'm marking this bug 'urgent' because the live CD is supposed to be the easy
way to try out Fedora and install it on hard disk if you like it.
But the result is a system which gives this unhelpful error when trying to
add packages not on the live CD.   If the problem can not be fixed then
the "install to hard drive" option should either be removed from the live cd or
made to warn the user that the resulting system does not support 'add/remove
software'.

------- Additional Comments From james_avera2 at yahoo.com  2008-06-10 18:36 EST -------
Created an attachment (id=308871)
 --> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=308871&action=view)
screen shot of the error


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