When I hit this problem in my install, the Abort choice still meant that the program was installed and worked. If I used Ignore then the program would not be available. It is an annoying bug but if you are patient you can wade through it. Ralph Ellis Jason Vertrees wrote:

Howdy,

I tried upgrading from 10.0 to 10.1, first through the network install, then through the ISOs. Both methods result in the same problem: the RPM installer in the background crashes time and time again.

More specifically, when I finalize the package selections and start the upgrade, RPM first tries to remove some packages and then installs the new packages -- it crashes during removal and install, many many times. Pretty much after each crash, I get a dialog asking to Retry, Ignore or Abort. Retry works sometimes. By switching to console I see that RPM is dying and leaves a segfault RIP w/address trace for each crash. The installer GUI does not crash, just the RPM.

My BIOS is fresh, the hardware is known good on other versions (most notably, SuSe Linux AMD64 9.2, 9.3, 10.0), different mirrors and sources were tried, ACPI/APIC have been en/disabled, and I've Googled and read lots of documentation. Some folks are having RPM issues, but I haven't found this one.

Hardware: Dual Opteron 240 MSI K8T800 Master2-FAR, NVidia 5950 Ultra, 1GB RAM, SATA.

Comments, ideas?

Many Thanks,

-- Jason