Bug 86369

Summary: Installer crashes while trying to upgrade from RH 7.2
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Roland Roberts <roland>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Version: 8.0   
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Hardware: i586   
OS: Linux   
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Description Roland Roberts 2003-03-20 19:45:09 UTC
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Description of problem:
While trying to upgrade a dual Pentium 233MMX system from RH7.2 to RH8.0,
anaconda crashes with the attached dump.  The upgrade option was selected, no
individual package selection.

System has dual 100GB drives in a RAID1 configuration, 

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot from CD
2. Walk through initial language/mouse/keyboard config
3. Select upgrade, no individual package selection
4. Crash....
    

Actual Results:  Crash....

Expected Results:  Should have installed packages.

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Comment 1 Roland Roberts 2003-03-20 19:46:02 UTC
Created attachment 90677 [details]
anaconda dump

Comment 2 Michael Fulbright 2003-03-21 15:53:11 UTC
We do not ship an smp kernel that supports Pentium systems any longer. If you
want to upgrade to 8.0 you will need to remove the kernel-smp package, upgrade,
and build your own Pentium (i586) smp kernel.