Bug 17881
| Summary: | Error installing from hard drive | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | David Phillips <davidp> |
| Component: | installer | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.0 | CC: | pjtucker, web |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2000-10-04 22:10:54 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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This is mostly likely because the hard drive image of Red Hat 7.0 is incomplete or corrupted. How did you create the hard drive image to install from? I had something similar to this happen on an attempted laptop install(upgrade specifically). On the first attempt, I had used XCOPY to copy the contents of the two i386 install CDs to a DOS partition. Errors similar to the above occurred. On the second attempt, I followed the README instructions :) and booted under my existing Linux to use 'cp -a' for the copy. Second attempt worked w/o errors. Please send me the md5sum of the quota package in your tree - it appears to be corrupt. I created the Hard Drive image by following the directions in http://www.redhat.com/download/howto_download.html. I downloaded all the files in RedHat/RPMS and RedHat/base onto my hard drive (onto the partition on /dev/hda5). I booted the machine with a boot floppy. I'm already running redhat 6.2 so I selected the upgrade option. The installer ran normally until the error message described earlier was received. Just in case, I had missed a file, I redownloaded the 7.0 files again and attempted the reinstallation - with the same results. Be sure to download with the binary ftp option. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18019 *** I did use binary mode for my downloads. Now I'm confused. I see this report linked to other duplicate reports, all moved to closed or resolved states but I don't see what the fix is. This can only happen if something was wrong with the tree anaconda was installing from. Since this is a hard drive install then the user created the install tree. My suggestion is to try again (maybe the mirror had a bad copy of the files). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18019 *** |
I received an error doing an install from the hard drive with a boot floppy. The installer ran normally until I got to the screen with the message, "Reading Package Information." Then I got an error message. Here is the diagnostic data that the installer wrote to a floppy disk. Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda.real", line 438, in ? intf.run(todo, test = test) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1028, in run File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 279, in __call__ File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 941, in upgradeFindPackages File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 539, in getCompsList File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/harddrive.py", line 43, in readComps File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 459, in __init__ File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 428, in readCompsFile File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 101, in __getitem__ KeyError: quota Local variables in innermost frame: self: <comps.HeaderList instance at 821b950> item: quota ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'method' p3 (iharddrive HardDriveInstallMethod p4 (dp5 S'fstype' p6 S'ext2' p7 sS'isMounted' p8 I0 sS'fnames' p9 (dp10 <failed>