Bug 47745

Summary: BAD: during upgrade from RH7.0 to RH7.1 anaconda crashed post install, prior to bootdisk creation
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Charles Richardson <crchrdsn>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Brent Fox <bfox>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 7.1   
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Hardware: i686   
OS: Linux   
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file created by anaconda at the time of the failure (plain text but with a very long line at the end) none

Description Charles Richardson 2001-07-06 18:47:19 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (Win98; U)

Description of problem:
Anaconda prompted for the insertion of a floppy on which it then saved a text file

How reproducible:
Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1.   After anaconda installation failure, I could not reboot the system
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  Rebooting resulted in the characters "LI" appearing in the upper left corner of the display
and the looping through the rebooting process ...     ....   ....

Additional info:

Here's the contents of the text file written by anaconda named anacdump.txt

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/text.py", line 551, in __call__
    if todo.doInstall ():
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 2057, in doInstall
    self.instPath + "/var/lib/rpm.rpmsave")
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Local variables in innermost frame:
arch: i386
total: 707
pkgTimer: <timer.Timer instance at a335c30>
msg: File exists
w: <text.ProgressWindow instance at bbe1150>
logname: /tmp/upgrade.log
i: /etc/X11
p: gtk+-devel
how: u
syslog: <todo.InstSyslog instance at 84f65a0>

(followed by a long string of text without newlines)

Comment 1 Charles Richardson 2001-07-06 18:49:42 UTC
Created attachment 22907 [details]
file created by anaconda at the time of the failure (plain text but with a very long line at the end)

Comment 2 Brent Fox 2001-07-06 19:55:49 UTC
Is /var, /var/lib/ or /var/lib/rpm a symlink?

Comment 3 Brent Fox 2001-07-16 14:32:05 UTC
Closing due to inactivity.  Please reopen if you have more information.