Bug 399471

Summary: [EMC 4.7 bug] Get unexpected exception when updating from RHEL 4 U4 to RHEL 4.6
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Wayne Berthiaume <berthiaume_wayne>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA QA Contact:
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Version: 4.0CC: andriusb, coughlan, emcnabb, murphy_shawn
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ncurses exception
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Description Wayne Berthiaume 2007-11-26 14:25:46 UTC 
Description of problem:
Get unexpected exception when updating from RHEL 4 U4 to RHEL 4.6 with either 
ncurses or GUI based installation. See attached screenshots.

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Comment 1 Wayne Berthiaume 2007-11-26 14:25:46 UTC 
Created attachment 268941 [details]
ncurses exception
Comment 2 Wayne Berthiaume 2007-11-26 14:28:23 UTC 
Created attachment 268951 [details]
GUI error
Comment 3 Wayne Berthiaume 2007-11-26 14:29:20 UTC 
These errors occur after determining the partitioning.
Comment 4 Alexander Todorov 2007-11-28 16:22:41 UTC 
Wayne, what is your partitioning table? 

Does the error happen when upgrading RHEL4-U4->U5->U6 ?

The "official" way to upgrade between minor releases (e.g. U?) is to upgrade to
the next version, not skip entire release. Try upgrading to RHEL4-U5 first, and
then to RHEL4-U6 and let us know.
Comment 5 Alexander Todorov 2007-11-28 16:24:03 UTC 
I forgot to say that fro upgrades between minor releases it's reccomended to use
yum (RHEL5) or up2date (RHEL4), either with RHN or a local repository.
Comment 6 Alexander Todorov 2008-01-10 10:19:25 UTC 
Wayne,
Please reply to comment #4 (#5). If I don't get an update I will need to close
this issue with INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Comment 7 Wayne Berthiaume 2008-01-10 14:44:44 UTC 
Hi Alex.

    I've been using the default partitioning on both RHEL 4 U4 and RHEL 4.6. 
The update was being performed via booting CD 1.

Regards,
Wayne.
Comment 8 Alexander Todorov 2008-01-11 07:59:51 UTC 
Wayne,
does the issue happen when upgrading RHEL4-U4->U5->U6 using u2pdate (RHN or
local directory) ?
Comment 9 Wayne Berthiaume 2008-01-15 14:22:15 UTC 
Unfortunately, I had only the one server I was updating in this fashion and 
have since performed a clean install on it.
Comment 10 Andrius Benokraitis 2008-01-17 04:06:35 UTC 
Wayne, so... this isn't too good then for reproducing the issue. Would you be
opposed to closing this until you experience it again?
Comment 12 Wayne Berthiaume 2008-01-28 15:36:32 UTC 
In light of the difficulties to reproduce it I have no problem with closing 
this.