Bug 70087

Summary:	anaconda crashes during install after installing last RPM package
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Public Beta	Reporter:	James Ralston <ralston>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	limbo
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Description James Ralston 2002-07-30 06:42:56 UTC

I was installing Limbo (7.2.93) on my laptop.  I did a Custom install, and then
did the "Everything" package set.  After anaconda finished installing the final
package (zsh), it then threw the following exception:

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Exception Occured (sic)

An unhandled exception has occurred.  This is most likely a bug.  Please copy
the full
text of this exception or save the crash dump to a floppy then file a detailed bug
report against anaconda at http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 757, in handleRenderCallback
    self.currentWindow.renderCallback()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 149, in renderCallback
    self.intf.icw.nextClicked()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 610, in nextClicked
    self.dispatch.gotoNext()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 150, in gotoNext
    self.moveStep()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 215, in moveStep
    rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args))
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 936, in doPostInstall
    syslog.stop()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/syslogd.py", line 87, in stop
    os.waitpid (self.pid, 0)
OSError: [Errno 10] No child processes

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I couldn't save the crash dump to floppy, as I can't have the floppy and the
DVD-ROM drive installed at the same time.

P.S.: "Occured" is misspelled; it should be "occurred".

Comment 1 Gil Chilton 2002-07-30 17:19:59 UTC

I experienced the same thing last night with limbo2 on a dual boot laptop 
installing the minimal install.  I did a minimal install a second time and the 
problem occurred again.  My laptop had grub previously and I was trying lilo 
with both of these installs.  When I chose my regular install with grub it 
worked fine.

Comment 2 Michael Fulbright 2002-08-01 04:47:52 UTC

Fixed this so it should not die now.

Comment 3 David Lawrence 2002-09-05 22:28:24 UTC

Verified fixed in latest tree.