Bug 161027

Created attachment 115667 [details]
Unhandled exception dump file

As promised.

I have a simular kind of problem.

After I've selected the setup-type, created user password, it's searching the
package list.

After that it just crashes...

The last messages on tty4 are:

* moving (1) to step selectlangpackages
* moving (1) to step package-selection

After this anaconde says : installation exited abnormally.

Does anyone has any idea?

Tia,

Erwin

I have the same problem.

After booting from a customized DVD in which I have created a kickstart file and
after passing all questions concerning partitioning, networking,... the
installation crash when searching for package list with the following errors:

An unhandled exception has occured. This most likeky a bug. Please copy the 
full text of this exception or save the crash dump to a floppy then file a 
detailed bug report against anaconda at http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/


Traceback (most recent call last):
 File  "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 873, in nextClicked
  self.dispatch.gotoNext()
 File  "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 174, in gotoNext
  self.moveStep()
 File  "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 242, in moveStep
  rc=apply(func,self.bindArgs(args))
 File  "/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 207, in readPackages
  id.instClass.setGroupSelection(grpset,intf)
 File  "/usr/lib/anaconda/kickstart.py", line 1559, in setGroupSelection
  pkgs=grpset.hdrlist.pkgnames[name]
KeyError.''

Other comment:
The same installation commented in #3 but done manually works correctly.

I have a similar "unhandled exception" with FC2. Loading from CD out of a text
book for class. 

An unhandled exception has occurred. This is most likely a bug. Please copy the
full text of this exception, or save the crash dump to a floppy then file a
detailed bug report against anaconda at http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/

Trace back (most recent call last):
File "usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1048, in handleRenderCallback
   self.currentWindow.renderCallback ()
File "usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 242, in renderCallback
   self.intf.icw.nextClicked ()
File "usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 763, in nextClicked
   self.dispatch.gotoNext ()
File "usr/lib anaconda/dispatch.py", line 169, in gotoNext
   self.moveStep ()
File "usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 237, in moveStep
   rc=apply(func,self.bindArgs(args))
File "usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 539, in turnOnFilesystems
   theffset.formatSwap(instPath)
File "usr/lib/anaconda/ffset.py", line 1247, in formatSwap
   self.formatEntry(entry,chroot)
File "usr/lib/anaconda/fsset.py", line 1290, in formatEntry
   entry.fsystem.formatDevice(entry,self.progressWindow,chroot)
File "usr/lib/anaconda/fsset.py", line 709, in formatDevice
   searchPath=1
File "usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py", line 55, in execWithRedirect
   childpid=os.fork ()
OSError: [Errno12] Cannot allocate memory

I get a similar trace back as #3 and #5 when installing from a CD. However, 
before the unhandled exception note appears I get an error statement that goes 
as follows: 

Error informing the kernel about modification to partition /dev/hda5 - Device 
or resource busy. This means Linux won't know about any changes you made 
to /dev/hda5 until you reboot - so you shouldn't mount it in any way before 
rebooting.

Click "Ignore" or "Cancel".
I click "Ignore" and I get the same error message, but with a different 
partition (/dev/hda6). I keep on picking "Ignore" and the same error keeps 
appearing but referencing successive partitions until there are no more 
partitions.

Then the unhandled exception occurs:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1137, in handleRenderCallback
self.currentWindow.renderCallback()
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 244, in renderCallback
self.intf.icw.nextClicked()
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 873, in nextClicked
self.dispatch.gotoNext()
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 174, in gotoNext
self.moveStep()
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 242, in moveStep
rc=apply(func,self.bindArgs(args))
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/partedUtils.py", line 726 in savePartitions
disk.commit()

If you mark one of the partitions you create as a primary partition during the 
installation process Fedora installs without any problems. At least it did for 
me.

This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd.

Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and
either update the target product or close it ?

Thanks.