Bug 6526

Summary:	Fatal error in 6.1 bootnet FTP upgrade...
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	cwelch1
Component:	installer	Assignee:	Jay Turner <jturner>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	high
Version:	6.1	CC:	sean, srevivo
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Hardware:	i386
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Description cwelch1 1999-10-30 06:11:49 UTC

After choosing a partition to upgrade on, the installer
dies with a long list of errors. The fatal error is:

"/var/tmp/python-root/usr/lib/python1.5/ftplib.py",line
201, in getresp IOError: [Errno ftp error] 500 'CWD ':
command not understood.

Only unusual circumstance is root is on a logical drive.
(/dev/hda5)

Comment 1 sean 1999-11-24 03:23:59 UTC

I too have had this problem on EVERY single FTP install that I have tried of 6.1
In every case the FTP server has been a standard RH-included wu-ftpd from 6.0 or
6.1.  I've installed to drives where the root partition was both logical and
regular.  Also, I've heard reports that this problem occurs on the Sparc version
too.

I have gotten around it by using NFS, but I am *very* disappointed in Red Hat
for letting 6.1 go out the door with such poor testing.  I've been using RH
since the day RH 4.2 came out and RH 6.1 has been the worst by FAR.  I hope this
isn't representative of what we can expect from RH now that they are public :(
And where were the simultanous releases for Sparc and Alpha along with i386 that
used to occur?  I've always liked RH as a company but if they don't get their
act together with the quality I've come to expect by the next release I will
begin seriously testing other distros...

Comment 2 Jay Turner 1999-11-30 15:51:59 UTC

This is a known bug in the installer which relates to putting trailing slashes
"/" on the path to the source files.  Basically, here is the upshot.  You have
to provide the fully-qualified domainname as well as the path to the source
files without a trailing slash in order to get an FTP install to work.  This bug
will be fixed in the next errata release.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5553 ***