Bug 225086

Summary: FTP install fails when it starts using wrong directory on server
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Dax Kelson <dkelson>
Component: anacondaAssignee: David Cantrell <dcantrell>
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Version: 5.0CC: ben.argyle
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Description Dax Kelson 2007-01-28 20:50:01 UTC 
Description of problem:

I have done many sucessful NFS installs of RHEL5beta2. Today I tried a FTP
install and about 2/3rds the way through installing packages it claimed it had a
problem reading the sabayon RPM. I checked the FTP server and the package was
fine. Note that I'm "skipping" inputing a installation number.

I rebooted and tried the install again and got the same error.

The FTP server PATH is: /pub/netinstall/RHEL5

I did a packet capture and observed the following when I hit the "Retry" button
on the sabayon popup message:

  0.778021 192.168.241.128 -> 192.168.241.1 FTP Request: USER anonymous
  0.778040 192.168.241.1 -> 192.168.241.128 TCP 21 > 34766 [ACK] Seq=21 Ack=17
Win=5792 Len=0 TSV=53594358 TSER=2189332
  0.779906 192.168.241.1 -> 192.168.241.128 FTP Response: 331 Please specify the
password.
  0.780047 192.168.241.128 -> 192.168.241.1 FTP Request: PASS anonymous@
  0.780932 192.168.241.1 -> 192.168.241.128 FTP Response: 230 Login successful.
  0.781183 192.168.241.128 -> 192.168.241.1 FTP Request: CWD /
  0.781388 192.168.241.1 -> 192.168.241.128 FTP Response: 250 Directory
successfully changed.
  0.781541 192.168.241.128 -> 192.168.241.1 FTP Request: CWD pub
  0.781746 192.168.241.1 -> 192.168.241.128 FTP Response: 250 Directory
successfully changed.
  0.781919 192.168.241.128 -> 192.168.241.1 FTP Request: CWD netinstall
  0.782063 192.168.241.1 -> 192.168.241.128 FTP Response: 250 Directory
successfully changed.
  0.782219 192.168.241.128 -> 192.168.241.1 FTP Request: CWD RHEL6
  0.782392 192.168.241.1 -> 192.168.241.128 FTP Response: 550 Failed to change
directory.

Notice that Anaconda tried changing into the RHEL6 directory instead of RHEL5!

On the server I created symlink from RHEL6 to RHEL5, clicked retry and the
install continued for 5 more minutes and then bombed out. I'm attaching the
traceback for the bombout.
Comment 1 Dax Kelson 2007-01-28 20:50:02 UTC 
Created attachment 146782 [details]
traceback from anaconda
Comment 2 David Timms 2007-04-05 23:52:51 UTC 
Seems this is duplicated by bug 229181. Suspected cause:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229181#c2
Comment 3 David Cantrell 2007-07-24 21:40:40 UTC 
This is now working correctly in RHEL 5.1 nightly builds.  Closing as nextrelease.
Comment 4 David Cantrell 2007-08-23 18:30:44 UTC 
*** Bug 229181 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***