Bug 80436

Summary: autorun installer fails
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Public Beta Reporter: Johannes Roith <groith>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Hardware: i686   
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Description Johannes Roith 2002-12-26 11:49:43 UTC
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Phoenix/0.3

Description of problem:
I'm updrading from RedHat 8.0. When I run setup (no boot setup, I execute
autorun) I get the following error, when the setup checks the packages:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/InstallDruid.py", line 529, in ?
    druid.run ()
  File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/InstallDruid.py", line 464, in run
    self.do_system_info_state ()
  File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/InstallDruid.py", line 350, in
do_system_info_state
    self.comps = self.method.readCompsViaMethod(hdlist, self.simple_progress.update)
  File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/method.py", line 488, in
readCompsViaMethod
    update_method = update_method)
  File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/comps.py", line 387, in __init__
    self.readCompsFile(file, self.packages)
  File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/comps.py", line 466, in readCompsFile
    self.compsxml = rhpl.comps.Comps(file)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rhpl/comps.py", line 297, in __init__
    self.load (filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rhpl/comps.py", line 304, in load
    doc = libxml2.parseMemory(file, len(file))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/libxml2.py", line 716, in parseMemory
    ret = libxml2mod.xmlParseMemory(buffer, size)
TypeError: xmlParseMemory() argument 1 must be string without null bytes or
None, not str


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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Execute autorun

Actual Results:  Installation aborts.

Expected Results:  Setup should continue.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2002-12-27 16:45:22 UTC
Did you test your CDs?

Comment 2 Michael Fulbright 2003-01-27 18:01:22 UTC
Closing due to inactivity - please reopen if you have additional information to
add to the report.