Bug 109469

Summary: traceback in lilo code
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Component: up2dateAssignee: Adrian Likins <alikins>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Version: 3.0CC: bart.schelstraete, blurred.vision, rvokal, tao
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Description Bill Nottingham 2003-11-08 03:13:59 UTC
Description of problem:

Updating to the errata kernel:

   3:kernel-smp            
########################################### [100%]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1165, in ?
    sys.exit(main() or 0)
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 745, in main
    fullUpdate, dryRun=options.dry_run))
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1028, in batchRun
    batch.run()
  File "up2dateBatch.py", line 82, in run
  File "up2dateBatch.py", line 153, in __installPackages
  File "up2date.py", line 613, in installPackages
  File "up2date.py", line 662, in runPkgSpecialCases
  File "up2date.py", line 753, in installBootLoader
  File "up2date.py", line 768, in __install_lilo
  File "lilocfg.py", line 376, in installNewImages
up2date_client.lilocfg.LiloConfError: Error installing lilo.conf  The
message was:
test install of lilo failed

Comment 1 Adrian Likins 2003-11-17 17:19:56 UTC
cath the traceback with the u1 target code, but I'm not
sure why the test install fails.

could you attach the lilo.conf?



Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2003-11-17 19:22:08 UTC
It's on devserv, but it's been modified since then.

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2003-11-17 19:22:47 UTC
Created attachment 96024 [details]
lilo config file

Comment 5 Adrian Likins 2004-01-20 19:15:50 UTC
what kernels are installed for those machines?

did the preexisting lilo work? 

Comment 6 Bill Nottingham 2004-01-20 20:22:09 UTC
On devserv, yes, the preexisting lilo did work. I'm guessing what
happened was just a too-long (or duplicate?) label.

Comment 7 Blurred Vision 2004-02-14 20:02:52 UTC
I am receiving this error too, on a clean install RHEL3 the first 
time up2date is run... I have this problem on 3 prd systems aswell, 
all minimum install RHEL3 the first time I run up2date...

Any help I can provide (as I have 4 systems all exhibiting the same 
symptoms?)
.
..
...
New Up2date available
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1165, in ?
    # we're fine up to this point...
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 745, in main
    else:
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1028, in batchRun

  File "up2dateBatch.py", line 82, in run
  File "up2dateBatch.py", line 153, in __installPackages
  File "up2date.py", line 613, in installPackages
  File "up2date.py", line 662, in runPkgSpecialCases
  File "up2date.py", line 753, in installBootLoader
  File "up2date.py", line 768, in __install_lilo
  File "lilocfg.py", line 376, in installNewImages
up2date_client.lilocfg.LiloConfError: Error installing lilo.conf  The 
message was:
test install of lilo failed


Comment 8 Blurred Vision 2004-03-30 01:17:59 UTC
What is the time frame likely to fix this? this is causing major bad 
mojo with my kickstarts...  

Any ideas?

Blurred

Comment 9 Adrian Likins 2004-08-24 21:00:19 UTC
there was a bug with labels of exactly 15 chars that
should be fixed in current errata releases