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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] Cauldron Install borked</H1>
    <B>Frank Griffin</B> 
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    <I>Fri Aug  5 19:15:04 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>On 08/05/2011 12:24 PM, Frank Griffin wrote:
&gt;<i> Doing a fresh install, after partitioning but before package selection 
</I>&gt;<i> (last popup shows &quot;looking for installed packages&quot;), you get an error 
</I>&gt;<i> panel saying:
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</I>&gt;<i> An error occurred
</I>&gt;<i> rm of /mnt/var/cache/urpmi/mirrors.cache failed: No such file or 
</I>&gt;<i> directory
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</I>&gt;<i> Clicking OK sends you back to disk partitioning again.
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</I>&gt;<i> Why should a failed rm halt the install ?
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</I>Switching to VC2 (busybox) and doing a &quot;cp /dev/null 
/mnt/var/cache/urpmi/mirrors.cache&quot; allows the install to proceed.  &quot;OK&quot; 
sends you back to disl partitioning, and as long as you don't reformat 
the root partition (which would delete mirrors.cache), you're good to go.
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