Bug 139191 - Installer aborts with "IndexError: list index out of range" when determining packages.
Summary: Installer aborts with "IndexError: list index out of range" when determining ...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 3
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-11-13 21:18 UTC by Martin Nichol
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2004-11-15 15:13:05 UTC
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anaconda debug dump (335.74 KB, text/plain)
2004-11-13 21:20 UTC, Martin Nichol
no flags Details

Description Martin Nichol 2004-11-13 21:18:57 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.4.1)
Gecko/20031114

Description of problem:
Upgrade a machine with FC1, kept updated with yum, to FC3.

It gets to the point where it determines packages and then aborts with
this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/src/build/475969-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py",
line 789, in nextClicked
    self.dispatch.gotoNext()
  File
"/usr/src/build/475969-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py",
line 171, in gotoNext
    self.moveStep()
  File
"/usr/src/build/475969-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py",
line 239, in moveStep
    rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args))
  File
"/usr/src/build/475969-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/upgrade.py",
line 346, in upgradeFindPackages
    method.mergeFullHeaders(id.grpset.hdrlist)
  File
"/usr/src/build/475969-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/image.py", line
126, in mergeFullHeaders
    hdlist.mergeFullHeaders("%s/%s/base/hdlist2" % (self.tree,
productPath))
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/hdrlist.py", line 343, in mergeFullHeaders
    rpm.mergeHeaderListFromFD(self.hdlist, fd, 1000004)
IndexError: list index out of range

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot from FC3 CDROM
2. Choose graphical install, US English, US Keyboard.
3. Begin installation.
    

Additional info:

Comment 1 Martin Nichol 2004-11-13 21:20:12 UTC
Created attachment 106650 [details]
anaconda debug dump

As generated by the "Save to Disk" option.

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2004-11-15 15:13:05 UTC
There are multiple media errors reading from your CD.  Please reburn
your media (a lower speed might help) and try again.  

<4>hdc: media error (bad sector): status=0x51 { DriveReady
SeekComplete Error }
<4>hdc: media error (bad sector): error=0x30



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