On Mon, November 6, 2006 7:30 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 06 November 2006 13:13, steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> Hello, Everyone >> I am having this strange problem installing Fedora Core 6 on a system >> that has an AOpen mainboard and about 384MB of RAM. Here is where >> things stand for now: 1. I ran sha1sum on the iso's on the machine that I >> burned them on. All appeared to be well. 2. I burned the images to cd's >> (Memorex 52x media, though I burned all the >> discs at 16x) 3. Took all the discs to the place where the system is >> located. Put disc 1 in the drive and rebooted, typing the following at >> the prompt: "linux mediacheck ide=nodma" 4. Tested all 5 discs, all >> passed except number 3. I then proceeded to burn a new copy of that >> disc. Re-ran "mediacheck" on it (still booted with the ide=nodma >> option) and it passed. 5. Rebooted the computer. At the prompt I typed >> the following: "linux ide=nodma" 6. Selected my packages and clicked the >> appropriate button. All still seems to be going fine. No dependency >> issues at all. 7. After clicking whatever button came next, the >> installation appeared to proceed nicely. Formatted all partitions that >> I told it to format. >> 8. Here's where things start to go bad. The following message pops up as >> expected: "Starting install process. This may take several >> minutes..." 9. Then I get a prompt to put in Disc 2, which I do. Then I >> am asked, in order, for discs 3-5. 10. Then I get a screen that is titled >> "Exception Occurred" It starts out >> like this: "An unhandled exception has occured." 11. The main error, >> repeated multiple times, reads something like this: "error: db4 >> error(-30974) from dbenv->open:DB_VERSION_MISMATCH:Database environment >> version mismatch. error: cannot open Packages database in >> /mnt/sysimage/var/lib/rpm" >> >> >> This strikes me as kind of odd for three reasons: >> a. The original iso's passed the sha1sum check. b. With ide=nodma >> appropriately passed, 1,2 & 4,5 passed. My re-try at burning disc 3 >> appeared to pass as well. c. The big thing that makes it seem odd: >> installing Fedora usually works without any flaws whatsoever. I even >> have FC6 running on our system at home, installed from the same images >> (hard drive install) So I'm not used >> to this :) >> >> I just had another idea, but I needed to get this down while I was >> inspired. I'll let you know what happened with my idea. >> >> Any help you can give me is greatly appreciated, >> Steven P. Ulrick >> > > When you were asked if you wanted to add any repos, did you opt to add > Extras? > > > Something similar happened to me. I started again and didn't ask for > Extras > and all was fine. > > Anne Hello, Anne I figured it out. As soon as it gets done installing, I will go home and explain it all to you. The key was the path where the RPM database could not be opened.... Steven P. Ulrick
