Bug 27095
| Summary: | Installer crashed upon loading packages | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Need Real Name <tutter> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.0 | CC: | ericl |
| 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: | 2001-02-12 03:54:48 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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I have seen the same exact problem of my system, after I downloaded RH7.0 from the FTP site, and attempted to load it via HD. You are missing file(s) in the hard drive image you setup which are required. I was able to correct this problem, simply by going into the RedHat\base directory(in my HD image), and removing all "indexhtml" entries from the "comps" file(I believe there are three references). After performing this operation, the installation was successful. I then was able to map my windows drives and install the indexhtml rpm manually(as it was ignored during the install process). Note: When modifying the comps file, ensure that you do not use a windows editor that saves CRLF pairs for newlines(notepad), instead use a unix compatible editor such as textpad to perform the changes. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt) I use my Primary Slave to install Linux; on my first drive, I've got Windows, so I would like to dual boot my system... I've already formatted my second drive as a linux drive, and also have a swap partition... The anaconda works perfect, until I get to the part where he says "Reading package information"; a couple of seconds later, he gives me an error message, and I have to abort the installation... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start installation program 2. Indicate my second harddrive (that already is formatted as a linux partition, with partition magic 6) as the ROOT (/) 3. Reading package information, and BAMM, it crashes Actual Results: I've had to restart my computer Expected Results: I exspected that the thing works ! My system configuration: AMD Duron 800@1000 192 MB RAM Win 98SE 2 harddisks; IBM and QUANTUM IBM: C: ; D: ; E: QUANTUM: Linux partition Promise ATA100 drivers, but connected my drives to the regulary IDE sockets to avoid any compatibility problems... and last but not least; the error message: 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 428, in readCompsFile File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 101, in __getitem__ KeyError: indexhtml Local variables in innermost frame: self: <comps.HeaderList instance at 823c658> item: indexhtml ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'method' p3 (iharddrive HardDriveInstallMethod p4 (dp5 S'fstype' p6 S'vfat' p7 sS'isMounted' p8 I1 sS'fnames' p9 (dp10 <failed>