Bug 20458

Summary: Expert install crashes while reading packages
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Need Real Name <restauff>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version: 7.0   
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Hardware: i586   
OS: Linux   
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Description Need Real Name 2000-11-07 06:56:26 UTC
While running the expert install from a hard disk, the install crashes while reading in packages.

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 1030, in run
  File 
"/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/textw/packages_text.py", line 33, in __call__
  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 360, in readCompsFile
TypeError: comp file version 3 or 4 expected

Local 
variables in innermost frame:
arch2: i586

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2000-11-07 19:32:01 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18469 ***