Bug 1287841

Summary: Transaction error leads to fast installer crash without warning or errors give to user
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Terje Røsten <terje.rosten>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 23CC: anaconda-maint-list, g.kaviyarasu, jonathan, terje.rosten, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Last Closed: 2015-12-07 12:53:05 UTC Type: Bug
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anaconda.log
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dnf.librepo.log
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dnf.log
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dnf.rpm.log
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hawkey.log
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ifcfg.log
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packaging.log
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program.log
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storage.log
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vncserver.log none

Description Terje Røsten 2015-12-02 19:41:14 UTC 
Description of problem:

Kickstart based install crashed every time after downloading all
packages.

Using ssh option and tailing logs I found:

20:25:45,462 INFO packaging: Downloading packages finished.
20:25:54,771 ERR packaging: The transaction process has ended abruptly
20:25:54,771 INFO packaging: Transaction check error:
  file /etc/logrotate.d/syslog conflicts between attempted installs of syslog-ng-3.6.2-3.fc23.x86_64 and rsyslog-8.10.0-1.fc23.x86_64
  file /etc/xdg/menus/mate-preferences-categories.menu conflicts between attempted installs of mate-menus-preferences-category-menu-1.10.0-2.fc23.x86_64 and mate-control-center-1.12.0-2.fc23.x86_64


Clearly these packages are buggy (rsyslog/rsyslog-ng has been reported months ago with patch to fix), however just crashing installer leaving user without a clue what's wrong nor with an option to ignore the issue is not very friendly.

Crashing after file systems have been created and packages downloaded makes it even more frustrating.

Please try to detect error more early and add option to ignore such problems.

Even very old versions of anaconda (even before Fedora) had this option
if I remember correctly.
Comment 1 David Shea 2015-12-02 19:54:19 UTC 
Please attach the logs from /tmp to this bug as individual, text/plain attachments.
Comment 2 Terje Røsten 2015-12-02 19:55:52 UTC 
That's of course not possible as the installer crashes and reboots and everything in /tmp is gone for good.
Comment 3 David Shea 2015-12-02 19:56:44 UTC 
Can you add inst.nokill to the boot arguments?
Comment 4 Terje Røsten 2015-12-02 19:58:54 UTC 
Seems useful, thanks.
Comment 5 Terje Røsten 2015-12-05 14:10:12 UTC 
Created attachment 1102525 [details]
anaconda.log
Comment 6 Terje Røsten 2015-12-05 14:10:46 UTC 
Created attachment 1102526 [details]
dnf.librepo.log
Comment 7 Terje Røsten 2015-12-05 14:11:09 UTC 
Created attachment 1102527 [details]
dnf.log
Comment 8 Terje Røsten 2015-12-05 14:11:31 UTC 
Created attachment 1102528 [details]
dnf.rpm.log
Comment 9 Terje Røsten 2015-12-05 14:11:54 UTC 
Created attachment 1102529 [details]
hawkey.log
Comment 10 Terje Røsten 2015-12-05 14:12:16 UTC 
Created attachment 1102530 [details]
ifcfg.log
Comment 11 Terje Røsten 2015-12-05 14:12:42 UTC 
Created attachment 1102531 [details]
packaging.log
Comment 12 Terje Røsten 2015-12-05 14:13:05 UTC 
Created attachment 1102532 [details]
program.log
Comment 13 Terje Røsten 2015-12-05 14:13:51 UTC 
Created attachment 1102533 [details]
storage.log
Comment 14 Terje Røsten 2015-12-05 14:14:47 UTC 
Created attachment 1102534 [details]
vncserver.log
Comment 15 Terje Røsten 2015-12-05 14:26:58 UTC 
tail of packaging.log:

15:39:16,380 INFO packaging: kernel: selected kernel
15:39:16,820 INFO packaging: Sufficient mountpoints found: {'/mnt/sysimage/var': Size('4,84 GiB'), '/mnt/sysimage': Size('24,37 GiB')}
15:39:16,821 INFO packaging: 3295 packages selected totalling 17,3 GiB
15:39:16,856 INFO packaging: Sufficient mountpoints found: {'/mnt/sysimage/var': Size('4,84 GiB'), '/mnt/sysimage': Size('24,37 GiB')}
15:39:17,163 INFO packaging: Downloading packages.
15:04:58,880 INFO packaging: Downloading packages finished.
15:05:12,609 ERR packaging: The transaction process has ended abruptly
15:05:12,609 INFO packaging: Transaction check error:
  file /etc/logrotate.d/syslog conflicts between attempted installs of syslog-ng-3.6.2-3.fc23.x86_64 and rsyslog-8.10.0-1.fc23.x86_64
  file /etc/xdg/menus/mate-preferences-categories.menu conflicts between attempted installs of mate-menus-preferences-category-menu-1.10.0-2.fc23.x86_64 and mate-control-center-1.12.0-2.fc23.x86_64
Comment 16 David Shea 2015-12-07 12:53:05 UTC 
Thank you for the logs. This behavior is fixed in rawhide by https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/commit/7bdd331b, but unfortunately did not make it into F23. This commit would have caused a traceback instead of a silent exit, and it looks like the underlying cause will be fixed once the change for bug 1287845 is pushed to stable.