From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7 Description of problem: During the install process anaconda crashes when trying to find the existing packages. This was an attempted upgrade from a RedHat 9.0 system. The dump file will be attached. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Insert Fedora Core 1 CD 2.Start system 3.Select language and mouse 4.Select update boot loader 5.Select upgrade from RedHat 9.0 on /dev/hda3 Actual Results: Installer crashes and allows to save dump to floppy (see attached) Expected Results: Install process continues to next step Additional info:
Created attachment 96102 [details] Anaconda dump file
You appear to have bad media based on the following errors in the log. <4>hdc: media error (bad sector): status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } <4>hdc: media error (bad sector): error=0x34 <4>hdc: media error (bad sector): status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Please verify your media according to the instructions at http://rhlinux.redhat.com/anaconda/mediacheck.html
I decided to try again today and it worked fine with the same media. Maybe the cd drive was being flaky.