Bug 36759

Summary: Installation crashs at installation
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: G|nther Orth <guenther.orth>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Brent Fox <bfox>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description G|nther Orth 2001-04-20 08:01:16 UTC 
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I want to Install RH 7.1 german on an new Computer (P 550MHz Celeron,
128MB-RAM, 6GB HD) and the install routines crashed on the system.
Look at the traceback below:


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to install the system
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  System crash

Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 520, in ?
    intf.run(todo, test = test)
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1126, in run
    rc = apply (step[1](), args)
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/textw/packages_text.py",
line 33, in __call__
    todo.getCompsList()
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 769, in
getCompsList
    self.comps = self.method.readComps(self.hdList)
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/image.py", line 17, in
readComps
    return ComponentSet(self.tree + '/RedHat/base/comps', hdlist)
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 542, in
__init__
    self.readCompsFile(file, self.packages)
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 423, in
readCompsFile
    raise TypeError, "comp file version 3 or 4 expected"
TypeError: comp file version 3 or 4 expected
 
Local variables in innermost frame:
filename: /mnt/source/RedHat/base/comps
Comment 1 Brent Fox 2001-04-20 13:00:52 UTC 
I think that either your cd is bad or something got corrupted during your download.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18469 ***
Comment 2 G|nther Orth 2001-04-24 07:28:26 UTC 
Sorry, I have buy a bad CD from RedHat. I get a new one and the bug was gone.