Bug 36063

Summary: Installer crashes when reading packages
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Neil Walters <you_are_sapping_the_life_out_of_me>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Brent Fox <bfox>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Hardware: i386   
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Description Neil Walters 2001-04-16 16:38:39 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)


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: basesystem

Local variables in innermost frame:
self: <comps.HeaderList instance at 8332058>
item: basesystem

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>


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Download RPMS and base
2.rawrite boot.img to floppy
3.boot floppy
	

Actual Results:  see description

Expected Results:  don't know
Comment 1 Brent Fox 2001-04-16 19:42:47 UTC 
I think something went wrong during your download.  Perhaps your ftp client was
set in ASCII mode instead of binary.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18019 ***