preupdate won't update

[shmuel siegel]

shmuel siegel wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
>> On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 07:33 +0300, shmuel siegel wrote:
>>  
>>> seth vidal wrote:
>>>    
>>>> On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 07:11 +0300, shmuel siegel wrote:
>>>>        
>>>>> From a fully updated fc8 on a dell latitude d620 I tried to run 
>>>>> preupdate to rawhide
>>>>> first try ran out of room in boot while downloading stage2 so I 
>>>>> deleted a kernel version
>>>>> second try finished
>>>>> when I rebooted and tried to perform the update, I got an error 
>>>>> message saying that the installer couldn't find groups in the 
>>>>> repository
>>>>>             
>>>> What version of preupgrade did you use?
>>>>
>>>> -sv
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> The original, from when it was first announced.
>>>     
>>
>> Ah, okay. That might just be a bug we fixed then - it could also have
>> been a flaky rawhide mirror. Try 0.9.2 from koji and see if it makes it
>> work more properly.
>>
>> Also go into /var/cache/yum/anaconda-upgrade/ if see a comps.xml or a
>> groups.xml.gz or anything like that, remove it, just in case it is bogus
>> or broken in some way.
>>
>> -sv
>>
>>   
> 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?