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. ----- Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/F9-install%3A-anaconda-fails%3A-Unable-to-read-package-metadata.-tp19246623p19274021.html Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines