Bug 437952

Summary:	"liveinst --debug" fails with backtrace
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Sebastian Vahl <fedora>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
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Description Sebastian Vahl 2008-03-18 12:40:15 UTC

Description of problem:
If you want to start liveinst in debugging mode to get some more informations, 
it fails with a backtrace:

$ liveinst --debug
FATAL: Module md not found.
  No volume groups found
> /usr/sbin/anaconda(812)<module>()
-> import instdata
(Pdb)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/anaconda", line 812, in <module>
    import instdata
  File "/usr/sbin/anaconda", line 812, in <module>
    import instdata
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/bdb.py", line 48, in trace_dispatch
    return self.dispatch_line(frame)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/bdb.py", line 67, in dispatch_line
    if self.quitting: raise BdbQuit
bdb.BdbQuit


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
anaconda-11.4.0.54-1.i386

How reproducible:
ever

Steps to Reproduce:
1. liveinst --debug
  
Actual results:
backtrace

Expected results:
works

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2008-03-18 17:12:27 UTC

--debug to anaconda drops you into pdb early on.  Due to how the live install
process works, we end up with stdin redirected and so pdb isn't usable.

Realistically --debug mode isn't that interesting for most cases and for the few
that it is, it's easy enough to start anaconda by hand with the right args