Bug 131746

Summary:	installer crashes when NFS server is not running
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Max Spevack <mspevack>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Version:	3.0	CC:	nobody+pnasrat
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Description Max Spevack 2004-09-03 20:51:00 UTC

Description of problem:

I was trying to do an NFS install of RHEL3U2, and every time I entered
the information of the server/directory (using linux askmethod) when I
installed, it would say something like "installer exited with signal
11" and I would have to reboot.

After a while I realized that I had rebooted the machine that had the
install images available over NFS, and I hadn't restarted nfs on that
machine.

The bug here is that if nfsd isn't running on the machine name
entered, the installer should re-prompt or give an error message to
that effect rather than crash with only signal 11 as the output, since
that offers no real debugging information to the user.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rhel3u2

How reproducible:
always -- try installing via NFS when the machine that you enter as
the nfs host isn't running nfsd

Steps to Reproduce:
1. see description
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Actual results:

anaconda crashes

Expected results:

non-crash, more informative error message

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2004-09-07 04:20:18 UTC

Merged the fix from HEAD to the RHEL3 branch for a future update.

Comment 2 John Flanagan 2004-12-21 14:49:15 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem 
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being 
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, 
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report 
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2004-518.html