Bug 34971

Summary: Installer crashed during install packages, won't get back there.
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Eric Jones <etjones>
Component: installerAssignee: Brent Fox <bfox>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Eric Jones 2001-04-06 03:59:16 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)


I am a new Linux user and was trying to do a fresh install.  I got to the 
Installing packages screen and told it to install.  Then I got a window 
that said "Exceptional Error" and told me to save the following string to 
a floppy and submit it to this website:Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", 
line 20, in run
    rc = self.todo.doInstall ()
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1470, in 
doInstall
    self.fstab.turnOnSwap()
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/fstab.py", line 406, in 
turnOnSwap
    isys.swapon (file)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 142, in swapon
    return _isys.swapon (path)
SystemError: (22, 'Invalid argument')

Local variables in innermost frame:
path: /tmp/swap/hda4

ToDo object:
(itodo
ToDo
p1
(dp2
S'method'
p3
(iimage
CdromInstallMethod
p4
(dp5
S'progressWindow'
p6

<failed>

That was on the first attempt.  Upon further retries it will never let me 
get past the choosing Installation Type screen.  


Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce

Comment 1 Brent Fox 2001-04-11 15:44:00 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 17791 ***