Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 10852
Anaconda crashes in both upgrade and fresh install - can't find file
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:55 EDT
This bug has been reproduced (independantly) on an Dell Optiplex gxPRO 200, 96 MB Ram SCSI/IDE, in an attempt to upgrade, and a fresh install on a brand new PIII 550 machine, 256 RAM made by No. hardware-vendor Tech Computers. The diffrence in hardware is obviuos. This bug was not on the list of fixed errata for the boot-image upgrades and is therefore submitted. The installer crashes when it is supposed to start copying packages to the disk. The appended trace is what shows up on one of the consoles in use by the installer. The gui just hangs. stacktrace: Exception in thread Thread-3: Traceback ( innermost last): File "/usr/lib/python1.5/threading.py", line 376, in __bootstrap self.run () File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress.py", line 16, in run rc = self.todo.install () File "/usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py" line 1169, in doInstall self.instLog = open (self.instPath + logname, "w+" ) IOError: [Errno: 2] No such file or directory: '/mnt/sysimage/tmp/upgrade.log'
By any chance is /tmp a symbolic link to another filesystem? The installer is not able to deal with /tmp being an absolute link to another filesystem and I am pretty sure this is the problem you are seeing. If this is indeed the case, then try changing the absolute link to a symbolic link and try the upgrade again. Please reopen this bug if you continue to have problems.