Autoinstaller hangs on "Checking for installed packages..."

[eugenevdm]

I have been able to upgrade to Plesk 8.4 on FC4 64-bit, FC6 32-bit, but for some reason on our FC6 64-bit machine the autoinstaller just hangs right at the beginning. Please assist. The complete log follows:

Autoinstaller 3.3.1 (build at 2008-04-07 16:36 svn rev. 95521) started at (timezone SAST) Sat May 24 00:49:45 2008
Command line args: ./parallels_installer_v3.3.1_build080407.16_os_FedoraCore_6_x86_64

SourceUrl: original source url is http://autoinstall.plesk.com/
SourceUrl: fixed url is http://autoinstall.plesk.com/
Try to find rcfile...
Autoinstaller rcfile not found.
Environment locale name is 'en_US.UTF-8'
SourceUrl: original source url is http://autoinstall.plesk.com/
SourceUrl: fixed url is http://autoinstall.plesk.com/
SourceUrl: original source url is http://autoinstall.plesk.com/
SourceUrl: fixed url is http://autoinstall.plesk.com/
SourceUrl: original source url is http://autoinstall.plesk.com/
SourceUrl: fixed url is http://autoinstall.plesk.com/
Sources page: source=http://autoinstall.plesk.com/, target_dir=/root/parallels
Proxy page: proxy host is '~empty', proxy port is 0
Opsys detected as: os_name=Linux os_vendor=FedoraCore version=6 arch=x86_64 environment=~empty
Final opsys (with overriding) is: os_name=Linux os_vendor=FedoraCore version=6 arch=x86_64 environment=~empty
repository: Get brief packages info for all sources
Checking for installed packages...

 

[eugenevdm]

The solution was to rm /var/lib/rpm/__db*

It appears the local RPM database was iffy. I noticed the local database problem when I started seeing "yum install progname" also hanging, and then running "yum -d 10 install progname" (debug level 10 shows it gets stuck 'Reading Local RPMDB').

 

[breun]

I guess you ran rpm --rebuilddb afterwards?