preupgrade from f11 to rawhide broken? python traceback

[Seth Vidal]

On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have fully updated Fedora 11 x86_64 system, and when I run
> "preupgrade-cli" I get this:
>
> ..
> ..
> Saving Primary metadata
> Saving file lists metadata
> Saving other metadata
> Generating sqlite DBs
>
> (process:1779): GLib-WARNING **: GError set over the top of a previous GError or uninitialized memory.
> This indicates a bug in someone's code. You must ensure an error is NULL before it's set.
> The overwriting error message was: Parsing primary.xml error: Couldn't find end of Start Tag rpm:entry line 99665
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-cli.py", line 305, in <module>
>    pu.main(myrelease)
>  File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-cli.py", line 270, in main
>    self.generate_repo(cachedir, comps) # TODO: callback?
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/preupgrade/__init__.py", line 651, in generate_repo
>    misc.generate_repodata(dir,comps,callback)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/preupgrade/misc.py", line 131, in generate_repodata
>    generate_repodata(dir, comps, callback)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/preupgrade/misc.py", line 148, in generate_repodata_f9
>    mdgen.doRepoMetadata()
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/createrepo/__init__.py", line 829, in doRepoMetadata
>    rp.getPrimary(complete_path, csum)
>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/sqlitecachec.py", line 45, in getPrimary
>    self.repoid))
> TypeError: Parsing primary.xml error: attributes construct error
>
>
> Known problem? How to fix it?

this is the second time I've seen this one - if you can find 
the primary.xml in /var/cache/yum/anaconda* directory, I'd appreciate 
seeing it.

thanks
-sv