The Red Hat 6.1 installer is a bug-ridden mess.
This is an update to my original post to redhat-list regarding problems
with upgrading from Red Hat 6.0 to Red Hat 6.1.
First some background; I burned a RH6.1 CD from an ISO image I grabbed
from ftp.cdrom.com. when I tried to upgrade my machine to 6.1, the
installer crashed, leaving me unable to upgrade my existing 6.0 system.
The symptom:
Graphical install: after selecting the "upgrade" option, I get a
message window stating: "error mounting ext2
filesystem on hda1: invalid argument". It then
hangs while displaying the message "searching
for existing Red Hat installations".
Text install: after selecting "upgrade", i get a message box
saying "error mounting ext2 filesystem on hda1:
invalid argument". I hit OK, and am then greeted
with an "exception occurred" box with the message
'file "/usr/bin/anaconda" line 225 . . .' (I
could transcribe the entire error message if it
will help). hitting OK halts the machine, hitting
Debug drops me into the python debugger.
Fresh installation appeared to work fine on the same machine (to my
try-out-new-distributions partition).
My two disks are partitioned thustly:
hda:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 497 3992121 7 HPFS/NTFS (Win NT4)
/dev/hda2 498 523 208845 6 FAT16
hdb:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 2 16033+ 83 Linux (/boot)
/dev/hdb2 3 35 265072+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hdb3 36 243 1670760 83 Linux (scratch)
/dev/hdb4 244 1229 7920045 83 Linux (Red Hat 6.0)
the 'scratch' partition (hdb3) is used for trying out various Linux
distributions as they hit the streets.
It was suggested to me that the installer has problems with NTFS
partitions, and that I should change the ID of /dev/hda1 from 7 to 17,
do the upgrade, then switch it back to 7.
Well, this morning I tried the workaround. here's what happened:
Graphical Install: The system got past the "searching for existing
Red Hat installations" screen, but hung on
"Finding packages to upgrade".
Text Install: same thing.
I switched to VC1, and saw some error messages:
error opening security policy file
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
which was followed by a python traceback, the last entry of which was:
/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/todo.py line 1155 in
upgradeFindPackages
out of curiosity, i switched to VC2 to check what was mounted:
bash# mount
/dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0
/proc /proc proc rw 0 0
/dev/pts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
/tmp/cdrom /mnt/source iso9660 ro 0 0
/tmp/hdb1 /mnt/sysimage/boot ext2 rw 0 0
/proc /mnt/sysimage/proc proc rw 0 0
odd thing, my root partition isn't mounted anywhere; no wonder it
couldn't find any packages...
By the way, will it give me a choice of which installation to upgrade?
I have two different Linux installations installed, one on /dev/hdb3 and
another on /dev/hdb4...
Is Red Hat working on this one? as it is, there appears to be NO WAY
for me to upgrade my systems.
-matt
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