From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Description of problem: For some reason (possibly LVM related) my install failed. The first package that didn't install correctly was glibc-2.3.2-101.i686. This is clearly an essential package but anaconda continued installing and didn't mention anything at all. In the end I got a system with no glibc, no kernel and no bootloader. No glibc means that I can't even chroot /mnt/sysimage from the rescue disk. My suggestion is that there should be some packages who's failure halts the entire install. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: This seems to be reproducible on my system, it happened to me twice and then I stopped trying to install with LVM and it went away. Actual Results: a completely broken system Expected Results: a completely broken system but the installer should have stopped at a much earlier stage and told me about the problem Additional info:
Can you attach the install.log? We catch pretty much everything that gets passed back up by rpm.
Created attachment 101115 [details] install log with lots of failures
scriptlet failures are non-fatal in 99% of cases, and thus ignored. If we errored out on every scriptlet failure, then upgrades especially would never work and installs would be non-functional large chunks of the time. The root cause is the glibc %post failure and then that cascades through. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 125700 ***
This is not a duplicate of 125700. I filed both of them as a result of the same problem but they are about 2 totally different things. 125700 is about error capture and this is about bailing if essential packages fail to install. Have a look further down the install.log, you will see Installing initscripts-7.42-1.i386. error: %pre(initscripts-7.42-1) scriptlet failed, exit status 0 error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping initscripts-7.42-1 and Installing kernel-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.i686. error: %pre(kernel-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl) scriptlet failed, exit status 0 error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping kernel-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl this is not just a scriptlet failure, this is the entire package failing. What is the point of continuing the install after these failures? Perhaps there is a point if it's an upgrade (although I think the user is in for a bit of a surprise) but a clean install should stop when it hits these errors.