Bug 52971

Summary: Installer crashes while reading packages
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Public Beta Reporter: Need Real Name <eric_a_benson>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Brent Fox <bfox>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority: medium    
Version: roswell   
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Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
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Automatically generated after install crashed none

Description Need Real Name 2001-08-31 19:09:55 UTC 
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Description of problem:
See attached anacdump.txt

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Install roswell on my computer! 2-proc PIII Matrox G400 SCSI
boot from CD
graphical install
custom install (not workstation, server or laptop)
use disk druid
preserve some partitions, format / and /boot


Actual Results:  Crash, with attached crash info

Expected Results:  roswell installed

Additional info:
Comment 1 Need Real Name 2001-08-31 19:10:45 UTC 
Created attachment 30395 [details]
Automatically generated after install crashed
Comment 2 Brent Fox 2001-08-31 19:47:49 UTC 
Look on VC4 and see if there are any error messages.
Comment 3 Need Real Name 2001-08-31 22:44:46 UTC 
Aha! It looks like the CD-R had some bad sectors. I re-burned and the
installation went smoothly. So my only complaint is with the obscurity of the
failure. It was difficult for me to tell that my installation failed because of
bad media.