Bug 231827

Summary: Lack of support for a SCSI adapter causes anaconda to trigger an exception
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
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Description Lubomir Kundrak 2007-03-12 12:29:50 UTC 
Description of problem:

An attempt to install -devel in Vmware results in an exception when no
drives are found. The emulated hardware is following:

00:10.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X
Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI (rev 01)

/proc/partitions contain the following:

major minor  #blocks  name
   7     0      82280 loop0

The emulated adapter works fine with released versions of RHEL and Fedora,
and thus I believe it should also do with devel.

Another pitfall is the way anaconda handles exceptions. It's a pity that
after saving the debug log to a floppy the only choice the user is given
is to 'Reboot'. It would be cool if he could enter a debugger, or maybe
save the log to another floppy, or whatever. It makes no sense to give him
a modal dialog with only one choice.

Additional info:

Here's the call stack. I attach the complete log.

Traceback (most recent call first):
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/autopart_type.py", line 286, in getScreen
    defaultBoot = self.anaconda.id.bootloader.drivelist[0]
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1128, in setScreen
    new_screen = self.currentWindow.getScreen(anaconda)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1224, in setup_window
    self.setScreen()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1234, in run
    self.setup_window(runres)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 991, in run
    self.icw.run (self.runres)
  File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 956, in <module>
    anaconda.intf.run(anaconda)
IndexError: list index out of range
Comment 1 Lubomir Kundrak 2007-03-12 12:29:50 UTC 
Created attachment 149819 [details]
The anaconda exception log
Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2007-03-23 18:24:59 UTC 
Should be better for test3