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Re: 4.0 upgrade fails

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Troan)
Fri Oct 25 11:13:51 1996

Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 10:57:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
To: Evan Harris <evan@cs.mu.oz.au>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199610250555.PAA04250@zephyr.cs.mu.oz.au>
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
Reply-To: redhat-list@redhat.com

On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Evan Harris wrote:

> The procedure fails after having retrieved uglist with a
> 	Cannot open /mnt/var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
> (or similar) message in the install log.

Will you switch to tty2 and try 

	ls -l /mnt/var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
	/mnt/bin/rpm --root /mnt -qa

and see what happens?

Erik

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