Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 111021
Needed disks cause failure when disk inserted into /mnt/cdrom1
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:34 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925 Description of problem: when redhat-config-packages needs a file that is not on a currently inserted cdrom, it displays a dialog: '"Fedora Core 1" Disk X needed to install packages. Insert the disk and press OK.' Putting the requested disc into cdrom will succeed, but putting the requested disc into cdrom1 will fail with the message: 'Error installing packages. There was an error installing packages. Exiting.' If the needed disk is in /mnt/cdrom1 (or /mnt/cdrom) when redhat-config-packages begins looking for files, the 'Disc needed' message is not displayed, and the installation succeeds. This roblem occurrs with all packages, but I've thouroughly tested the case for the mc program. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fails when additional disk inserted into cdrom1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run redhat-config-packages. 2. if mc installed: 2a. under System | System Tools | details, uncheck mc, click close. 2b. click update. 2c. message 'Completed system preparation' displayed. 2d. click continue. 2e. message 'Updating system' displayed. 2e. click OK 3. Install mc: 3a. under System | System Tools | details, check mc, click close. 3b. click update. 3c. click continue. 3d. message displayed: '"Fedora Core 1" Disc 3 needed to install packages. Insert the disk and press OK.' 3d. click OK Actual Results: - Message displayed: 'Error installing packages. There was an error installing packages. Exiting.' Expected Results: displays message 'Updating System' displays message 'Updating Complete' click ok return to 'Add or Remove' packages screen. Additional info: After 'Error installing packages message' - click ok - program terminates Last message reads: The file /mnt/cdrom1/Fedora/RPMS/mc-4.6.0-6.i386.rpm cannot be opened. This is due to a missing file, a bad package, or bad media. Press <return> to try again. ls /mnt/cdrom1 shows no files. Eject and Insert /mnt/cdrom1 ls /mnt/cdrom1 now shows expected files. Workaround is to insert requested disks into /mnt/cdrom, instead of /mnt/cdrom1
I encountered the same problem and got around it. I have two drives, a Plextor writer on /dev/scd0 (/dev/cdrom1) and a Toshiba DVD drive on /dev/hdd (/dev/cdrom). Point to /mnt/cdrom1 and /mnt/cdrom respectively. 1. Started redhat-config-packages with disc in /mnt/cdrom1. If packages I selected are on current disc, everything is fine. If not, program prompts me to switch discs. I switch, let it spin up, then continue. Program exits with generic error message. Terminal debug info complains that it could not find file in /mnt/cdrom. Hmmmm. 2. Same as #1 except started with disc in /mnt/cdrom drive. If packages I select are already on current disc, it's fine. If not, prompts for different disc. I follow along and everything works great. 3. Start with disc in /mnt/cdrom1, install package on different disc. At prompt put requested disc into /mnt/cdrom instead. Worked fine. Probable cause: after a disc swap, program searches only /mnt/cdrom for the new disc, regardless in which drive it initially found a disc.
This report is filed against a product which is no longer supported. It is very likely that the problem is resolved in the current version of Fedora Core or scheduled to be resolved with the new system-config-packages scheduled to land in Fedora Core 5.