Bug 76405
| Summary: | Installation crashed on slang-1.4.5-11 during package installations | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Roger Stone <professorx2000> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i586 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2002-10-22 19:16:46 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Recent attempts: Tried using ext2 and ext3 file system. NOGO Using 700Megabyte media. The cd-rom for the redhat can except and read 700Megabyte media. Further research on newsgroups and redhat mailing list indicates that this happens to other users also. Creative Blaster 48X. Tested with redhat 7.3 CD #1, similar results. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: The bug occurs during package installation for initial install. It halts on slang-1.4.5-11 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Download from redhat mirror FTP sites 2. Run Install 3. Select custom setup Actual Results: Fatal crash with the error bad package, bad media, or missing files. Expected Results: Installation should have gone through. Additional info: Here is the dump Traceback (most recent callback list) File "usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 786, in handleRenderCallbackself.currentWindow.renderCallback() File "usr/lib/anaconda/iw_progress_gui.py", line 149, in RenderCallbackself.inf.icw.nextClick() File "usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 632, in nextClickedself.dispatch.gotoNext() File "usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 150, in gotoNextself..dispatch.gotoNext() File "usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 215, in moveStep rc - apply (self.bindArgs(args)) File "usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 719, in doInstall problems = ts.run (0,~rpm.RPMPROB_FILTER_DISKSPACE,cb.cb,0) File "usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 283, in cb fn = self.method.getFilename (h,self.pkgTimer) File "usr/lib/anaconda/image.py", line 119, in getFilename f = open ("/mnt/source/.discinfo") IOError: [Ernno 2] No such file or directory: '/mnt/source/.discinfo' Solutions tried so far: downloading different isos, reburing the iso (NOGO, no change) Everytime the CD passes the media check. Turning off the shadow memory for the video card in bios. Using disk druid, using the automatic setup of the server, and using fdisk. linux mem=128M NOTES: Installing custom setup. Hardware: 128 megs ram Generic 3 button mouse Voodoo 3 3000 video card. AWE 64 Soundblaster sound card AMD 450 mhz chip asus motherboard