Hi, I have read about this install bug, here at LQ but until last week I had not seen it.

But I have now and I found a hack that gets past it.

You need the old Mandriva 2008 dvd as well as the 2008.1 Spring dvd.

Now when the install faults and gives the error message, then drops you back to the partitioning section, you can finish the install by rebooting with the 2008.0 dvd instead of the 2008.1 dvd.

When you get the option to upgrade to.... Go ahead and upgrade, it will check the install as usual the proceed to the config section just before reboot.

Warning, Once you finish you may be back to the kernel version that came with 2008.0, but from there, once the system is running, you can fix the rest.

I hope this helps,

regards, Glenn

OK, I wanted to make sure the install was configured....

so this post does not appear to be of much interest, here is the mandriva errata details to fix the same problem.
ref: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2008.1_E...m::uniq_called

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Upgrade from previous release fails with Undefined subroutine &MDK::Common::System::uniq called

See also Image:bug_small.png Bug #39925. Several users have reported a serious bug with upgrading from a previous version of Mandriva Linux using the installer in Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring Free or Powerpack. The process fails, most of the way through, with this error message:

Undefined subroutine &MDK::Common::System::uniq called

You can attempt to retry, but the same error message is always displayed.

It is possible to recover from this situation. At this point, the upgrade is in fact almost fully completed; however, the updated kernel is not correctly installed, and an old KDE configuration package will still be installed, if you have KDE on your system.

You should be able to boot into the updated system using the kernel from the version from which you are upgrading. If the graphical interface starts up, hold down ctrl-alt-F1, and you will get to a text mode login prompt. Log in as root, with your root password.

Now you need to re-install the new kernel package. You may be using kernel-desktop, kernel-laptop, kernel-desktop586, or kernel-server. If you are not sure which you are running, the command:

uname -r

will tell you. Now, re-install the new kernel package, run this command as root in terminal:

urpmi --replacepkgs kernel-desktop-2.6.24.4-1mnb-1-1mnb1

change the kernel-desktop part of the command if that is not the kernel you are using.

If you run KDE, you will also need to update your KDE configuration package. If you are using Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring Free, run this command as root in terminal:

urpmi mandriva-kde-config-common-2008.1-27mdv2008.1 free-kde-config-2008.1-27mdv2008.1

If you are using Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring Powerpack, run this command as root in terminal:

urpmi mandriva-kde-config-common-2008.1-27mdv2008.1 powerpack-kde-config-2008.1-27mdv2008.1

You should now be able to restart your system and find that everything works as expected.
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I think my way is faster.