Bug 101536

Summary: Installer crashed when detecting previous Red Hat installation during upgrade
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Scott Carey <bigtxbear>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Version: 9   
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Hardware: i686   
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Description Scott Carey 2003-08-03 05:45:18 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686)

Description of problem:
Upgrading Red Hat 7.1, 2.4.2-2 on a Compaq Presario 4640 to Red Hat 9. 
Difficulty booting from CD (not a problem with the CD, have used this CD on
other systems with no trouble); install will usuallu hang before reaching the X
installation screens.  This time, the install crashed during the "detecting
previous installs" phase

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot from CD
2. Attempt install
3.
    

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Comment 1 Scott Carey 2003-08-03 05:48:39 UTC
Created attachment 93356 [details]
Anaconda dump file

Comment 2 Michael Fulbright 2003-08-05 20:28:18 UTC
The error log contains numerous read errors from the CD drive, indicating a
problem with either the drive or the media.