Bug 28153

Summary: Installer crashes when attempting to format drive after partitioning
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Scott Powell <spowell40>
Component: installerAssignee: Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 7.0   
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Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
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Last Closed: 2001-02-22 21:16:30 UTC Type: ---
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This is the dump file that I saved none

Description Scott Powell 2001-02-17 17:35:47 UTC
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I am doing a HD install (downloaded all the install files of the Internet) 
and booting from a boot disk. After selecting my installation media 
location (hda5 and RedHat 7.0 directory), everything starts chugging 
fine... I setup my partitions and hostname, etc... select root password 
and create a user account, then I'm at the screen where it asks to format 
the new partitions. I say ok and it barfs.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Use the ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-7.0/i386/en/ as the 
installation root (I downloaded all the files and subs under this to my 
HD).
2.Create a boot disk and boot from it.
3.Select Hard Drive install and select the partion and directory of the 
media.
4.Select Server Install, partition drive, create root passwd and user 
account, etc.
5.When you get to the format partitions screen proceed.
	

Actual Results:  The install crashed with a runtime error.

Expected Results:  It should have kept going.

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 32, in __call__
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 532, in 
getHeaderList
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/harddrive.py", line 54, 
in readHeaders
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Local variables in innermost frame:
self: <harddrive.HardDriveInstallMethod instance at 827d090>
hl: []
path: /tmp/hdimage//RedHat/RedHat/RPMS

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Comment 1 Scott Powell 2001-02-17 17:37:29 UTC
Created attachment 10301 [details]
This is the dump file that I saved

Comment 2 Scott Powell 2001-02-19 04:19:32 UTC
Upon renaming of the directory I saved all the install files in, it works fine 
now. I took the space out ("RedHat 7.0" renamed to "redhat")

Comment 3 Michael Fulbright 2001-02-20 19:41:46 UTC
Thanks for the feedback.

Will note that spaces may not work when specifying the path to the hard drive
images.

Comment 4 Glen Foster 2001-02-21 18:21:49 UTC
We (Red Hat) should really try to resolve this before next release.

Comment 5 Michael Fulbright 2001-02-22 21:15:59 UTC
Fixed.

Comment 6 Glen Foster 2001-03-02 18:06:25 UTC
Our installer team-lead thinks we should really fix this before next release.