Bug 38450

Summary:	RFE: Installer halts when ftp site does not have needed file
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Philip Long <phillong69>
Component:	installer	Assignee:	Brent Fox <bfox>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.1	Keywords:	FutureFeature
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Enhancement
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2001-09-17 21:26:53 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Philip Long 2001-04-30 19:04:02 UTC

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3 i686)


I had two seperate directories (iso loopback mounts) of seawolf1 and
seawolf2.  I started an ftpinstall off of the loopback on disc1.  It got to
tetex-fonts and hung for 30 min before I rebooted.  A timeout of some sort
on ftpinstalls (and a dialoge asking for another site/directory!)  would be
great! 


Reproducible: Didn't try

Comment 1 Brent Fox 2001-04-30 21:43:30 UTC

I'll mark this as an enhancement.  It's not really a bug since the fault is
really with the FTP site and not the installer, but this could be a nice feature
to add.

Comment 2 Ricky Ng-Adam 2001-05-26 05:55:23 UTC

I'd like to add the following because I'm not sure this is only a problem with some FTP servers timing out.  

I experienced the same problem with both a local intranet FTP server (RH6.2 with wu-ftpd-2.6.0-3) that seems to work fine even after the install hang.  

First time it  hanged at tetex, second time at emacs and third time (upon selecting less packages) at arp-utils.  ALT-Fing to the install console gives out 
repetitive "IO ERROR ftp error occurred getting [filename here] [errno ftp error] 550", which is very strange!

In one case, it gave that error at the very, very last package! Mucho frustrating.

The only way I could get it to install was to smallest install but useless install I could do (around 266 megs)... It seems to be related to how long the 
install takes!?

Either this is a bug with the wu-ftpd in 6.2 or the install for 7.1 as some problem.

But obviously, adding the proposed "feature" of timing out after X attemps and offering the opportunity of reconnecting to resume would solve a lots of 
problems.

Comment 3 Michael Fulbright 2001-09-17 21:26:47 UTC

Fixed in roswell.