Bug 50307

Summary:	installer hangs at Performing post install configuration
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <sporte>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Brent Fox <bfox>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.1	CC:	msw
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Description Need Real Name 2001-07-30 10:10:41 UTC

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Description of problem:
While upgrading from 7.0 to 7.1, all packages installed without errors.  
The "Performing post install configuration" went all the way across to 
100% then stopped.

VC3 has only one line that may be a related error:
* did not run inetdconvert because no inetd.conf.rpmsave found

VC4 has no errors.  VC2 is still usable.

How reproducible:
Didn't try


Additional info:

Comment 1 Brent Fox 2001-07-30 15:14:23 UTC

That error message is curious, but I don't think it would cause the install to
freeze.  There's a return call in the code that should allow the install to
continue.

From todo.py:
        if not os.access (self.instPath + "/etc/inetd.conf.rpmsave", os.R_OK):
            log("did not run inetdconvert because no inetd.conf.rpmsave found")
            return

I don't know what could be causing the system to hang, though.  Are you able to
type any commands on VC2?

Comment 2 Need Real Name 2001-07-30 23:27:29 UTC

All commands on VC2 seem to be functional.  I have left the install hung 
because I'm not sure if I can recover and continue or if I have to somehow 
start over.

Comment 3 Brent Fox 2001-08-06 16:32:04 UTC

msw, does this look like the Heisen bug that you found?

Comment 4 Matt Wilson 2001-08-06 17:07:59 UTC

yea, this would apply back to 7.1 as well.

Comment 5 Brent Fox 2001-08-10 17:00:51 UTC

I think if you were to try the install again, things might work.  This
particular bug was very rare and hard to reproduce.  msw has committed a patch
that will keep this from happening in future releases.  Do things work ok when
you try again?

Comment 6 Need Real Name 2001-08-10 22:47:44 UTC

I did rerun the install, and my system is working great now.

Comment 7 Brent Fox 2001-08-13 15:24:50 UTC

Ok.  Glad to know things are working now.  Please reopen this report if you see
this behavior in a future release.  This should be fixed now.  Thanks for your
report.