Bug 169008

Summary:	resume install on previous failure
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	sanjeev <nagasmailbox-bugzilla>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	CC:	sundaram
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OS:	Linux
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Description sanjeev 2005-09-22 03:21:43 UTC

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Description of problem:
Fedora has tons of packages to install and when installing most of them..
if installer crashes with an error, its almost a pain to redo the whole process
and ofcourse lots of time waste. Can there be a Installing Resumer which actually
resumes the install from where it had crashed earlier. May be saving the
installed packages image and checking for it while next reboot and trying to 
resume it..


This will greatly help.
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Thanks

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. On every install failure
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Additional info:

Comment 1 Rahul Sundaram 2005-11-17 13:04:08 UTC


Bumping up to devel. This feature is one of the planned enhancements

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AnacondaWorkItems

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2006-01-31 20:31:53 UTC

Handling this is very difficult as you could have failed at any of a number of
points leaving your filesystem in a very inconsistent state.

Comment 3 sanjeev 2006-02-01 03:24:55 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> Handling this is very difficult as you could have failed at any of a number of
> points leaving your filesystem in a very inconsistent state.

May be handling some points can be done...
Like storing the pre-install steps like, mounting info,
network, firewall, etc info, selected packages info.. etc 
somewhere if formatting of partitions step is successfull..
(may be in the root partition.. as anyhow.. the installer will
check for whether to install or upgrade the existing OS based
on the presence of a root partition).

Once the install of rpms started... and if the 
system level rpms' like glibc etc are installed
successfully, may be we can save the so far installed
rpms list (which i think is already done) and on
the error reboot, try to diff from the user selected
list and start from the next rpm.. to be installed...
It is like.. sometimes.. an rpm install is failing..
because of corrupt? may be and the installer is
refusing to go to next rpm and exiting.. i feel 
that would help...

Just ideas to share..
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thanks