Bug 71985

Summary: redhat-config-packages fails to start
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Public Beta Reporter: Carlos Morgado <chbm>
Component: redhat-config-packagesAssignee: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
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Description Carlos Morgado 2002-08-20 15:52:06 UTC
Description of Problem:

redhat-config-packages fails to start.
it dies:
# redhat-config-packages 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/MainWindow.py", line 134, in ?
    im = method.CdromInstallMethod()
  File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/method.py", line 323, in __init__
    discid.read(self.baseDir + "/.discinfo")
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rhpl/discid.py", line 30, in read
    file = open (filename, 'r')
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/share/comps/i386/.discinfo'

the machine is cdrom-less.

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2002-08-21 06:37:09 UTC
Did you do an install via ftp/http?

Comment 2 Carlos Morgado 2002-08-21 08:46:01 UTC
yes, booted bootnet from floppy and did a ftp install.



Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2002-08-21 14:04:25 UTC
Grab RedHat/base/comps.rpm and install it and things will be happier; there was
a bug in the code pulling the package for ftp/http installs that didn't get
fixed for (null).  Some better error handling is needed for this case, though.

Comment 4 Carlos Morgado 2002-08-21 14:17:21 UTC
the fix works for me.

Comment 5 Jeremy Katz 2002-08-24 21:00:17 UTC
And we now pop up an error dialog in this case instead of tracebacking as well