Bug 508591

Summary:	Traceback overwrites earlier tracebacks
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Tethys <sta040>
Component:	python-meh	Assignee:	Chris Lumens <clumens>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	11	CC:	clumens, rmaximo, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Description Tethys 2009-06-28 22:21:08 UTC

Description of problem:
Traceback filename is always "anacdump.txt"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Whatever's in F11 -- I haven't managed to install it yet, so
I can't easily check!

How reproducible:
Unknown

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Bork the installer. Get it to write the traceback to a file.
2. Retry the install.
3. Another failure, write the traceback to the same storage device.
  
Actual results:
Traceback overwrites previous dump files.

Expected results:
Numbered dump files (anadump2.txt, for example)

Additional info:
The first traceback was worthwhile, and would have made it into
a bug report, probably giving useful info. The second one was
triggered by bad hardware, and so doesn't need reporting. But
it had overwritten the one I was actually interested in :-(

Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2009-07-17 20:27:30 UTC

I'm addressing this as part of breaking the exception handling out of anaconda into a standalone project called python-meh.

Comment 2 Chris Lumens 2009-07-29 02:47:54 UTC

This should be fixed in the initial build of python-meh.  Thanks for the bug report.

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2010-04-27 15:19:41 UTC

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Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2010-06-28 13:21:35 UTC

Fedora 11 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-06-25. Fedora 11 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

Comment 5 Chris Lumens 2010-06-28 13:28:10 UTC

That was dumb, bugzapper.