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Description of problem: When installing updated RedHat 7.3, anaconda crashed with bug report. I update the standard 7.3 release with the updates (kernel etc) and removed the old rpms. Regenerated a hdlist and created a bootable cd with boot.img. It boots OK, I get to go through the whole menu of selecting type of installation O (workstation) and so on and after last page of startup menu, anaconda comes with crash dump. Key error in crash dump is man-pages-cs (last line of crash dump). Anaconda asks to report it in bugzilla. Will attach list of changed rpms. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): n/a (standard 7.3 anaconda version) How reproducible: All the time. Steps to Reproduce: 1.create bootable cd from updated rpms 2.boot from cd 3.follow menu anaconda will crash after all installation preparation steps. NB: file systems are not formatted after crash. Actual results: No installation or format has taken place. Expected results: Installation of workstation RedHat 7.3 Additional info: Have checked bugzilla for other reports on this issue, bugs 59476, 58516, 59769 and 58827 are also about anaconda crashing but do not provide a solution for this issue.
Created attachment 95194 [details] crash dump txt generated by anaconda
Created attachment 95196 [details] list of updated packages I copied all these rpms into the cd1/RedHat/RPMS and cd2/RedHat/RPMS directories, removed the old versions of these rpms, regenerated a hdlist using anaconda-runtime (genhdlist --withnumbers --hdlist ~/cd1/RedHat/base/hdlist ~/cd1 ~/cd2) and created a new bootable cd: mkisofs -V RedHat73_updated -b images/boot.img -c boot.cat -J -r -T -o cd1.iso ~/cd1 and mkisofs -V RedHat73_updated -J -r -T -o cd2.iso ~/cd2 and burnt this on cd: cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0 -data cd1.iso and cd2.iso (I never got to try cd2 since anaconda already crashes at cd1).
Your comps file references a package which isn't present in your hdlist, likely because you didn't include all 3 cds in your gendhlist command.