Bug 28192
| Summary: | Install fails on custom install after authentication choice | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Need Real Name <dwest> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.0 | ||
| 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: | 2001-03-05 22:40:59 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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If you can mount the CD on a linux machine, try the command rpm -K --nogpg /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/MAKEDEV-* and report the results. Your CD is most likely bad. Here is the result from rpm -K --nogpg /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/MAKEDEV-*
/mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/MAKEDEV-3.0.6-5.i386.rpm: md5 OK
FYI: This same CD was used to successfully upgrade another system.
Did you run this command on the CD drive you were installing from? The only way I know that you can get the error you did is if the installer was unable to read the RPM from the CD. I ran the rpm -K --nogpg /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/MAKEDEV-* command from another Linux system since I'm still unable to install Linux on this new system. The system with this installation problem has a DVD, if that makes any difference. I'm booting from the CD in the DVD drive and its obviously accessing it OK since it gets well into the graphical install procedure before getting this error. It appears that the DVD device is having problems with the CD, or Linux is having trouble using the DVD device instead of the CD drive in the other machine. Is it possible to use a CD drive in the machine exhibiting problems? I downloaded a new ISO image for disk 1 and burned a new CD. I was able to complete the install with this new CD. There must have been just a slight incompatibility with the first CD and my DVD drive. FYI: both CD's were burned on a Yamaha SCSI CD-RW on a Solaris system with cdrecord but on different brands of CD-R's. In addition the disk 2 from the original set I burned worked just fine with my DVD drive. Thanks for the help in narrowing down the problem! No problem. I must see 5 or more CD related problems a day. I guess with all the different types of CDR media there are more problems. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) I can not get past the Authentication screen on installation. This is for a custom install on a PIII-866 512MB RAM manually partitioned with LILO on boot partition. This is on a disk (IDE) which includes Win2K Professional NTFS on first 6GB of 20GB disk. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start CD based install 2. choose graphical install 3. choose custom 4. manually partition (/boot=16M / =1000M <Swap>=128M /usr=1000M /usr/local=1000M /var=512M /opt=256M) 5. choose format with disk scan 6. LILO config (create boot disk, install LILO on /dev/hda2, /=/dev/hda5 default boot image) 7. choose not to activate eht0 on boot 8. Time zone = US Central 9. set root password 10. add one user account 11. choose default MD5 and Shadow password on authentication screen 12. Install Crashes anacdump.txt provided Actual Results: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 438, in ? intf.run(todo, test = test) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 336, in run self.icw.run () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 678, in run mainloop () File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gtk.py", line 2554, in mainloop _gtk.gtk_main() File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gtk.py", line 125, in __call__ ret = apply(self.func, a) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 428, in nextClicked self.setScreen (self.currentScreen, self.nextClicked) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 466, in setScreen new_screen = screen.getScreen () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/package_gui.py", line 427, in getScreen self.todo.getCompsList() File "/tmp/updates/todo.py", line 539, in getCompsList self.comps = self.method.readComps(self.hdList) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/image.py", line 16, in readComps return ComponentSet(self.tree + '/RedHat/base/comps', hdlist) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 459, in __init__ self.readCompsFile(file, self.packages, arch, matchAllLang) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 428, in readCompsFile comp.addPackage(packages[l]) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 101, in __getitem__ return self.packages[item] KeyError: MAKEDEV Local variables in innermost frame: self: <comps.HeaderListFromFile instance at 84ac7b0> item: MAKEDEV ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'method' p3 (iimage CdromInstallMethod p4 (dp5 S'progressWindow' p6 <failed> I even tried the October installer update image using "linux updates" at boot prompt on step 2 above.