From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: Installer hangs when doing FTP-installation because the DHCP lease is not renewed properly during installation. My ISP drops the network connection when the lease is not renewed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Connect computer to ISP which drops network connection when DHCP lease is not renewed. 2. Try to install Fedora with FTP installation Actual Results: Hanged installation Expected Results: Flawless installation Additional info:
I can confirm this bug in slightly different circumstances. If my case, the installation was waiting for user input when the DHCP lease expired. The DHCP server then gave the IP address to another computer. However, this computer failed to boot because it noticed that the IP address was use. (The half-installed box was presumably still responding to ARP requests for it's IP address even though it hadn't renewed the lease.)
[This is a mass update sent to many bugs that missed earlier such messages due to having their version set to a test version.] This bug was originally filed against a version of Fedora Core which is no longer supported, even for security updates. Many changes have occured since then. Please retest this bug against a still supported version. Note that FC3 and FC4 are supported by Fedora Legacy for security fixes only. If it still occurs on FC5 or FC6, please assign to the correct version. Otherwise, if this a security issue, please change the product to Fedora Legacy. Thanks, and we are sorry that we did not get to this bug earlier. This bug will be closed after a few weeks if no information is given indicating that the bug is still present in a supported release.
Bug still there during install of fc6.
Fedora Core 6 is no longer maintained. Can you reproduce this bug in Fedora 8?
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