Bug 53901

Summary: Installation Crashed KABOOM!!!
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Need Real Name <vjchurch>
Component: installerAssignee: Brent Fox <bfox>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority: high    
Version: 7.1   
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Target Release: ---   
Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
URL: ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.1/en/os/i386/RedHat/base
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Last Closed: 2001-09-21 15:10:48 UTC Type: ---
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Description Need Real Name 2001-09-21 03:32:43 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 98)

Description of problem:
loaded all parts of installer and gets to download of first stage 
BEFORE you get to choose Custom, workstation, or anywhere near that!!
It has been reprodused from a HD copy on MY FTP of redhat.com original 7.1 
ver install abse install 3 times and 17 at redhat.com itself of ftp style 
install!

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.start computer with bootnet.img floppy disk and start ftp install
2.ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.1/en/os/i386/RedHat/base
  at--> ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.1/en/os/i386/
3.install resets somewhere after a moderate download of installer 
components and about one or two steps later. Anaconda loads; but BEFORE 
you select STANDARD, WORKSTATION, or CUSTOM install
	

Actual Results:  1. Error Message -- Anaconda STOPS!

2.Linux install shell unloads
3. It tells you you are able to reset your computer safely after a few 
seconds

Expected Results:  SHOULD HAVE proceeded to selection of custom, 
workstation, or standard install choice

Additional info:

Anaconda loads and functions but read these messages:

Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/bin/anaconda.real", line 520, in ?
    intf.run(todo, test = test)
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1126, in run
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-
7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/textw/partitioning_text.py", line 228, in __call__
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/fstab.py", line 505, in 
turnOnSwap
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 90, in ddfile
    fd = os.open(file, os.O_RDWR | os.O_CREAT)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/mnt/loophost/rh-swap.img'

Local variables in innermost frame:
buf: 

================================================================

file: /mnt/loophost/rh-swap.img
pw: (<method InstallInterface.progressWindow of InstallInterface instance 
at 823f3d0>, 'Swap Space', 'Creating swap space...')
fd: 17
megs: 250

ToDo object:
(itodo
ToDo
p1
(dp2
S'resState'
p3
S''
sS'progressWindow'
p4
NsS'setupFilesystems'
p5
I1
sS'monitorVsync'
p6
S''
sS'videoCardStateNode'
p7
S''
sS'serial'
p8
I0
sS'ddruidReadOnly'
p9
I0
sS'bootdisk'
p10
I0
sS'videoRamState'
p11
S''
sS'monitorOriginalName'
p12
S''
sS'language'
p13
(itodo
Language
(dp14
S'langInfoByName'
p15
(dp16
S'Arabic (Yemen)'
p17
(S'ar_YE'
S'iso06'
S'LatArCyrHeb-16'
tsS'Spanish (Argentina)'
p18
(S'es_AR'
S'iso01'
S'lat0-sun16'
ts

========================================    ..........

02'
sg358
S'iso09'
sg359
S'iso09'
sg360
S'iso02'
sg361
S'iso15'
sg362
S'koi8-u'
sg363
S'iso02'
sg364
S'iso15'
sg365
S'iso15'
ssbsb.
=============================
redhat.com seems to have defined erors in ftp installs at same place for 
linux ver 7.1, 7.0, and 6.2

Comment 1 Brent Fox 2001-09-21 15:10:43 UTC
Are you trying to do a partitionless install?

Comment 2 Brent Fox 2001-10-01 16:07:37 UTC
Closing due to inactivity.  Please reopen if you have more information.